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Puppy Paws on the other hand is a lot more obscure a website and most people tend to stop listenning if they've never heard of somehting 'cause they don't think it can be that important if they've never heard of it.\n\nBoth websites were early forums on the internet and both are rather extensive communities with many many members who post way too damn often.\n\nThe point I'm going to discuss is how these two websites are related to each other, the past they have shared and the mass confusion and conflict that they have had between each other over the years.\n\nI'm a member of Puppy Paws so I might have more information on that side of the fence but I'll do my best to stay impartial, which where 4chan is concerned you either already know or are about to find out can be rather difficult.\n\nFirst a Little Background\n-----\nFirst off, in 1994, despite the internet being around roughly 2 whole decades before this point, it was still fairly new to people and, before the home computing craze of 1995, was still rather virgin territory to anyone other than schools, political powers and businesses.\n\nPeople will try to convince you the internet didn't begin until 1995 but that's more of a case of what we recognise the internet as today as a vast community of interconnected people sharing content with each other not existing until 1995. In 1994 there were no search engines, social networks, personal websites or indeed any form of online community or place where people could express their individuality.\n\nThe internet was strictly for serious things such as education and advertizing. Entertainment was pushed to the side though by this point numerous TV channels already had their own websites.\n\nThe Pioneers\n-----\nEnter the Pioneers, a group of people with way way way more money than sense as at this point webspace was expensive but they still felt the need to create online communities. However these communities were nothing like today as there was still no way for members to post things to websites directly and all content had to be sent to the website owner's email so that the owner could manually add the content to the website by recoding the website each time.\n\nIn these terrible conditions these people were seen as mad to try and build a community online but never-the-less many people on the internet were glad of it as even in those days they were glad to find others with shared interests.\n\nOne of the main problems with these communitities was that, since this was before the days of search engines, nobody would really know of their existence and the knowledge of such a place tended to be passed around by word of mouth.\n\nThis of course meant that most of these communities were local to the area where the website owner lived as the word was generally spread to their close friends who passed it onto their close friends and so on.\n\nThere was no online email system either by this point so the only way of sending an email to someone else would be if they gave you their IP address directly which would require to obviously know them in real life.\n\nThese communities, once they found another, would instantly publish links to each other on their homepages and, thanks to the fact that people tended to move around a country, meant that, despite having no formal search engine, they still managed to make interconnected networks that spanned hundreds of websites, though you were kind of at the mercy of which particular websites the website owner found the most interesting and decided to include on their list, as obviously nobody was going to post links to random websites they had no interest in... or were they?\n\nOpen Directories\n-----\nThis is where Open Directories come in. These were the forerunners to search engines run by just really nice people who wanted the entire internet to be all interconnected and one big happy family and they would spend hours every day painstakingly checking through the links section of every single community they knew or at least the most popular ones for any new communities that might turn up so they could add them to their own website's categorized lists of links.\n\nAnd that last bit is very important as there was no way to search criteria on these website and you would have to choose a category then a sub category and so on to see all the links, for example, Entertainment -> Gaming -> The Publisher's Name -> The Title Of The Game.\n\nObviously what kind of community you got was a bit of a lucky dip as often all you had to go on was the title of the community and its web address. Though directories did sometimes handily have a small 20 word description about the website, 20 words was hardly big enough to explain it properly.\n\nThis was before the days when you got paid for traffic by the way so there really was no financial gain to be had from interconnecting all these websites together and it really was just a nice gesture by some lovely people with more money than sense.\n\nAnd after that ridiculously long setting of scene I can finally start to make my point however it was vital that you knew what the situation was beforehand as it's not going to make much sense what happens afterwards without knowing how different things were back then in the early days of the internet.\n\nThe Ring, Bullitin Boards and Prog Frog\n-----\nThe interconnected websites at the time were known by several names depending on group you were part of and one such network was known as The Ring. The Ring had many websites set up by extensively rich folk that to be honest were the forerunners to forums as their sites had manually operated guest books that resembled something more akin to imageboards today.\n\nThey would basically just add whatever someone emailed them to the bottom of list of posts gradually deleting the oldest posts as they went on so that there would just be one big topic with roughly 100 pages of ten to thirty posts.\n\nObviously their emails started to amass in huge amounts so it was hardly a practical method but this is where Puppy Paws comes in or as it was known at the time Prog Frog.\n\nUntil we get near the 4chan bit I wasn't part of Puppy Paws yet so all this is based on information I've gathered. Though I was an active user of the internet back in 1994 I didn't really know about Puppy Paws just yet.\n\nWith the dawning of more advanced scripting for webpages these communities became much more easy to manage and by 1995 the Bullitin Board in its original form was born.\n\nImageboards, Waka Waka Industries, Nihon Ressha, Niko Niko Corporation and B-Net\n-----\nEnter Waka Waka Industries. The first to curb this new growing trend of online social interaction, Waka Waka Industries took the Bullitin Board and took it to a whole new level with their conservative programming skills.\n\nShowing off their handywork they gave the technology to a large web community within The Ring known as Nihon Ressha (trains of Japan), a trainspotting entusiasts website with an already rather quirky community behind it.\n\nRessha soon gathered the attention of communities right the way across The Ring and everyone wanted their own copy of Waka Waka's software which they gave out for a price of course.\n\nSeveral hundred communities later and another company known as Niko Niko Corporation challenged Waka Industries right to sell the software due to the fact that it was based on code that other communities in The Ring had invented.\n\nNiko Niko won their case and the software was allowed to be distributed as freeware but Waka Waka wasn't done yet and made their own variation of the software which they legally patented this time.\n\nHowever on principle the Japanese people in The Ring refused to use the software and kept using the old freeware and fanmade modifications of it to build their websites.\n\nEnter B-Net. One japanese community online consisted of a collection of websites known as B-Net or Network 2 to the American that frequented it. The Americans didn't care to translate the Japanese language and instead liked to look at the pretty pictures and text art characters on B-Net's random forum Mona.\n\nThis was by far the most popular of all the Bullitin Boards at the time and really the first to spread the popularity of the technology across the ocean to North America though there were already small bilingual or multilingual communities such as Prog Frog.\n\nHowever, the Americans favored the Waka Waka product and were ignorant of the turmoil within the community because they didn't care to listen to what the Japanese had to say.\n\nWaka Waka Industries aiming for American sales and Niko Niko Corporation aiming for Japanese popularity, the two sides locked horns and decided to make their own communities Waka Waka and II respectively. II being the Japanese word for good and pronounced the same as E which was a trending word for internet technology such as Email for example.\n\n4chan, Spark, Trilo, Forks In A Road, Trend It and The 4-way\n-----\nBy now Ressha, Waka Waka and B-Net had became known to the Americans and since that's all they knew about at the time the Americans decided to make their own website which they named 4chan, believing there only to be 3 at the time despite the fact there were in fact hundreds including English speaking websites.\n\nAmidst growing hatred between the Waka Waka favoring Americans and the Niko Niko favoring Japanese 4 distinct websites stood out a leaders in the argument. B-Net were Japanese and favored Niko Niko, Prog Frog now known as Spark were mostly Japanese and trying to keep the peace, 4chan were American and favored Waka Waka and a website called Trilo were mostly American and also trying to keep the peace.\n\nTrilo proposed a friendly competition between the 4 websites which unfortunately came to be known as The 4-way. However B-Net absolutely anihilated the competition every time the competition was run and 4chan quit out of disgust being replaced by Forks In A Road who were a lot more like Trilo.\n\n4chan lost its popularity and eventually shut down although thanks to employing a highly experimental new system of software that crashed frequently so did Trilo. Remember that at this point in time webspace was not cheap and in the case of Trilo at least it was run by donations.\n\nB-Net, Spark and FIAR continued to hold the competitions with Trend It as the 4th party member, Trend It being made from a group of Americans that left B-Net because B-Net was annoyed by how much porn they were posting on their site.\n\n4chan Returns\n-----\nFast forward several years and 4chan returned at the boom of broadband seemingly ignorant of their past despite it being run by the same individuals and having large portions of their community consisting of the same people as well.\n\nThey popularized imageboards in the west and soon new \"chan\" websites began popping up such as 7chan for example. However the attitude of the websites was a stark change to the way they had been in the past with offensive content their main focus.\n\nAlso something that was immediately obvious was that the majority of the content was trends from The Ring with B-Net as their main target. 4chan claimed they had invented the trends and even after they were proven wrong by waves and waves of evidence their fans still believed 4chan's side of the argument as that was a much more popular website in America and most Americans hadn't heard of the other websites.\n\nAnd when a bunch of Puerto Ricans from a website called Sentochan, which until now had stayed out of the argument became involved, 4chan responded violently using hacking software and physically beating up members of Sentochan when they took part in a comic convention.\n\nSpark alerted authorities to 4chan's actions and several of its members were arrested despite 4chan's claims that their members would be protected due to animosity. Following the event Spark and 4chan locked horns with Spark catching members of 4chan who broke the law by leaking information to the relevant authorities.\n\nTrend It also joined in and when 4chan stepped it up to animal cruelty and pedophilia Trend It had 4chan shut down though 4chan blamed Spark for it.\n\nGoogle's Major Fuck Up\n-----\nSeeking revenge but unable to hack Spark's advanced software they reported Spark to Google on grounds of pedophilia. Google didn't even bother to check if the rumors were true and blocked Spark and its webhost Party Host from their ASL database which was shared across AOL, Bebo, Usenet, Yahoo, MSN Search, Alta Vista and Ask Jeeves as well.\n\nParty Host also hosted a server called T.A.I.L so when it was shut down multiple businesses also shut down suddenly leading them to sue Google over the decision.\n\nSpark being a forum of multiple businesses in Los Angeles and the surrounding area in California, lost income because of it and sued Google over their rash decision but unfortunately the case was delayed repeatedly leaving the businesses to abandon Spark and look elsewhere.\n\nSpark later won their claim and Google was given a court order to add the website back into their search results which they proceeded to delay and later refused to do leading to Spark making millions in profit from compensation charges.\n\nSpark now richer than ever proceeded to buy up failing businesses and use them one way or another to gain interest on their money and after a partnership with a major Japanese publisher under a different name managed to manipulate internet trends in their favor popularizing a series involving a computer generated pop idol.\n\n4chan Wont Give Up And Go Home\n-----\nSkipping back in time a little for now, following the popularity of a first person shooter, 4chan managed to make a parody webseries of it using an unusual quirk in the game though ultimately failed to rake in profits as two of their members took all the credit for the idea.\n\nTrying a second time they worked on a project with low quality 3D characters which was a huge success but B-Net became aware of various copyright infringements and ultimately 4chan made no profit from the series though they did gain popularity.\n\nTrying a third time 4chan flooded a popular Japanese video sharing site and art site, two properties owned by B-Net and tried to spin the popularity of their own product which became dubbed as The Eastern Animation Project.\n\nThough it didn't take in Japan initially, enough Americans believed it was the newest Japanese trend that they bought it in the west and 4chan was successful at last. However they had used multiple Japanese mascots in their product and are currently being sued by about 3 dozen Japanese businesses which obviously is not going to end well for 4chan.\n\nTrilo Returns\n-----\nWhilst all this was happening the birth of social networking meant that Trilo could operate without having to pay fees for webspace and the Trilo community resurfaced making a popular trend of drawing the very basic \"Therefore\" logo in chalk on buildings so as to promote the community without breaking the law.\n\nMany people started posting around the internet that they'd seen this wierd symbol and started asking around what it meant and old Trilo members headed the call and met back up again.\n\nUnfortunately a website called Arch stole the idea and claimed it as their own trend changing their branding to suit. Trilo sued and had the website shut down but due to Arch's popularity they became very much hated over the internet.\n\nArch rebranded themselves and started up again but went on to pull the same trick with other online communities and got sued again. Though Trilo wasn't involved this time they blamed them for the incident and tried to hack the social network that Trilo was using leading to it having multiple cut outs.\n\nDue to the popularity of the social network and the fact it had just been bought out by a very shrew business Arch was pretty much bancrupted but came back from the ashes and currently resides as part of a search engine community on the deep web.\n\nTrilo's experimental programming skills went from strength to strength and they eventually got hired to build interface software for some tailor made web browsers which they sold to patent company and made a nice bit of profit.\n\nIt's belived that Arch regularly acts on behalf of 4chan from time to time.\n\nThe Dead Web, The Well and Puppy Paws\n-----\nSome of these events overlap so bare with me. Hopping back in time a little, Spark became a webhost itself building servers in Boston and became exclusively employed in finding websites due to be shut down and providing webspace and business advice for them or otherwise buying their businesses.\n\nThe community took the name Doomsday and after Spark started failing financially a business they hosted known as The Well bought them out and took over management.\n\nHowever The Well went through multiple changes as shifting leadership and mergers transformed them into what they now call Puppy Paws.\n\nPuppy Paws themselves have taken action against attacks on their community and business and I can tell you that 4chan always comes off worse for wear.\n\nThe Imperial Alliance of the Neurologically Diverse and Kuro\n-----\nPuppy Paws later recognized their Spark division as a separate entity and rebranded themselves as a coalition known as the Imperial Alliance of the Neurologically Diverse.\n\nForming a partnership with Trilo, Forks In A Road and B-Net's community of various constituant parts, they formed the Kuro and became major promoters for a certain child friendly first person shooter though it was mostly Trilo's doing.\n\nKuro then went on to design some gaming hardware and is currently reeling in the profits from that though I don't see it as a viable business venture.\n\nKuro has also managed challenge businesses belonging to members of 4chan in Japan which is somewhat the subject of controversy as it looks like a revenge movement rather than business strategy.\n\nMe\n-----\nMe I'm not interested the business side of things by I've gained very valuable connections across the internet and hope to use them to create my own property.\n\nMy Albion project alone has a huge following and a very lovely community of absolute nutcases who help me regularly on generating content as well.\n\n4chan's attacked people around me but luckily not me myself, probably because I don't get so easily offended and I don't really own anything they want or want to get rid of.\n\nOne day I reckon I'll have my own community but judging by the chaos the one I've already experienced has been through I don't know if it's a good thing.", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "4chan and Puppy Paws
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You probably already know about 4chan and if you don't it wouldn't be hard to find out about. Puppy Paws on the other hand is a lot more obscure a website and most people tend to stop listenning if they've never heard of somehting 'cause they don't think it can be that important if they've never heard of it.

Both websites were early forums on the internet and both are rather extensive communities with many many members who post way too damn often.

The point I'm going to discuss is how these two websites are related to each other, the past they have shared and the mass confusion and conflict that they have had between each other over the years.

I'm a member of Puppy Paws so I might have more information on that side of the fence but I'll do my best to stay impartial, which where 4chan is concerned you either already know or are about to find out can be rather difficult.

First a Little Background
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First off, in 1994, despite the internet being around roughly 2 whole decades before this point, it was still fairly new to people and, before the home computing craze of 1995, was still rather virgin territory to anyone other than schools, political powers and businesses.

People will try to convince you the internet didn't begin until 1995 but that's more of a case of what we recognise the internet as today as a vast community of interconnected people sharing content with each other not existing until 1995. In 1994 there were no search engines, social networks, personal websites or indeed any form of online community or place where people could express their individuality.

The internet was strictly for serious things such as education and advertizing. Entertainment was pushed to the side though by this point numerous TV channels already had their own websites.

The Pioneers
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Enter the Pioneers, a group of people with way way way more money than sense as at this point webspace was expensive but they still felt the need to create online communities. However these communities were nothing like today as there was still no way for members to post things to websites directly and all content had to be sent to the website owner's email so that the owner could manually add the content to the website by recoding the website each time.

In these terrible conditions these people were seen as mad to try and build a community online but never-the-less many people on the internet were glad of it as even in those days they were glad to find others with shared interests.

One of the main problems with these communitities was that, since this was before the days of search engines, nobody would really know of their existence and the knowledge of such a place tended to be passed around by word of mouth.

This of course meant that most of these communities were local to the area where the website owner lived as the word was generally spread to their close friends who passed it onto their close friends and so on.

There was no online email system either by this point so the only way of sending an email to someone else would be if they gave you their IP address directly which would require to obviously know them in real life.

These communities, once they found another, would instantly publish links to each other on their homepages and, thanks to the fact that people tended to move around a country, meant that, despite having no formal search engine, they still managed to make interconnected networks that spanned hundreds of websites, though you were kind of at the mercy of which particular websites the website owner found the most interesting and decided to include on their list, as obviously nobody was going to post links to random websites they had no interest in... or were they?

Open Directories
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This is where Open Directories come in. These were the forerunners to search engines run by just really nice people who wanted the entire internet to be all interconnected and one big happy family and they would spend hours every day painstakingly checking through the links section of every single community they knew or at least the most popular ones for any new communities that might turn up so they could add them to their own website's categorized lists of links.

And that last bit is very important as there was no way to search criteria on these website and you would have to choose a category then a sub category and so on to see all the links, for example, Entertainment -> Gaming -> The Publisher's Name -> The Title Of The Game.

Obviously what kind of community you got was a bit of a lucky dip as often all you had to go on was the title of the community and its web address. Though directories did sometimes handily have a small 20 word description about the website, 20 words was hardly big enough to explain it properly.

This was before the days when you got paid for traffic by the way so there really was no financial gain to be had from interconnecting all these websites together and it really was just a nice gesture by some lovely people with more money than sense.

And after that ridiculously long setting of scene I can finally start to make my point however it was vital that you knew what the situation was beforehand as it's not going to make much sense what happens afterwards without knowing how different things were back then in the early days of the internet.

The Ring, Bullitin Boards and Prog Frog
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The interconnected websites at the time were known by several names depending on group you were part of and one such network was known as The Ring. The Ring had many websites set up by extensively rich folk that to be honest were the forerunners to forums as their sites had manually operated guest books that resembled something more akin to imageboards today.

They would basically just add whatever someone emailed them to the bottom of list of posts gradually deleting the oldest posts as they went on so that there would just be one big topic with roughly 100 pages of ten to thirty posts.

Obviously their emails started to amass in huge amounts so it was hardly a practical method but this is where Puppy Paws comes in or as it was known at the time Prog Frog.

Until we get near the 4chan bit I wasn't part of Puppy Paws yet so all this is based on information I've gathered. Though I was an active user of the internet back in 1994 I didn't really know about Puppy Paws just yet.

With the dawning of more advanced scripting for webpages these communities became much more easy to manage and by 1995 the Bullitin Board in its original form was born.

Imageboards, Waka Waka Industries, Nihon Ressha, Niko Niko Corporation and B-Net
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Enter Waka Waka Industries. The first to curb this new growing trend of online social interaction, Waka Waka Industries took the Bullitin Board and took it to a whole new level with their conservative programming skills.

Showing off their handywork they gave the technology to a large web community within The Ring known as Nihon Ressha (trains of Japan), a trainspotting entusiasts website with an already rather quirky community behind it.

Ressha soon gathered the attention of communities right the way across The Ring and everyone wanted their own copy of Waka Waka's software which they gave out for a price of course.

Several hundred communities later and another company known as Niko Niko Corporation challenged Waka Industries right to sell the software due to the fact that it was based on code that other communities in The Ring had invented.

Niko Niko won their case and the software was allowed to be distributed as freeware but Waka Waka wasn't done yet and made their own variation of the software which they legally patented this time.

However on principle the Japanese people in The Ring refused to use the software and kept using the old freeware and fanmade modifications of it to build their websites.

Enter B-Net. One japanese community online consisted of a collection of websites known as B-Net or Network 2 to the American that frequented it. The Americans didn't care to translate the Japanese language and instead liked to look at the pretty pictures and text art characters on B-Net's random forum Mona.

This was by far the most popular of all the Bullitin Boards at the time and really the first to spread the popularity of the technology across the ocean to North America though there were already small bilingual or multilingual communities such as Prog Frog.

However, the Americans favored the Waka Waka product and were ignorant of the turmoil within the community because they didn't care to listen to what the Japanese had to say.

Waka Waka Industries aiming for American sales and Niko Niko Corporation aiming for Japanese popularity, the two sides locked horns and decided to make their own communities Waka Waka and II respectively. II being the Japanese word for good and pronounced the same as E which was a trending word for internet technology such as Email for example.

4chan, Spark, Trilo, Forks In A Road, Trend It and The 4-way
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By now Ressha, Waka Waka and B-Net had became known to the Americans and since that's all they knew about at the time the Americans decided to make their own website which they named 4chan, believing there only to be 3 at the time despite the fact there were in fact hundreds including English speaking websites.

Amidst growing hatred between the Waka Waka favoring Americans and the Niko Niko favoring Japanese 4 distinct websites stood out a leaders in the argument. B-Net were Japanese and favored Niko Niko, Prog Frog now known as Spark were mostly Japanese and trying to keep the peace, 4chan were American and favored Waka Waka and a website called Trilo were mostly American and also trying to keep the peace.

Trilo proposed a friendly competition between the 4 websites which unfortunately came to be known as The 4-way. However B-Net absolutely anihilated the competition every time the competition was run and 4chan quit out of disgust being replaced by Forks In A Road who were a lot more like Trilo.

4chan lost its popularity and eventually shut down although thanks to employing a highly experimental new system of software that crashed frequently so did Trilo. Remember that at this point in time webspace was not cheap and in the case of Trilo at least it was run by donations.

B-Net, Spark and FIAR continued to hold the competitions with Trend It as the 4th party member, Trend It being made from a group of Americans that left B-Net because B-Net was annoyed by how much porn they were posting on their site.

4chan Returns
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Fast forward several years and 4chan returned at the boom of broadband seemingly ignorant of their past despite it being run by the same individuals and having large portions of their community consisting of the same people as well.

They popularized imageboards in the west and soon new "chan" websites began popping up such as 7chan for example. However the attitude of the websites was a stark change to the way they had been in the past with offensive content their main focus.

Also something that was immediately obvious was that the majority of the content was trends from The Ring with B-Net as their main target. 4chan claimed they had invented the trends and even after they were proven wrong by waves and waves of evidence their fans still believed 4chan's side of the argument as that was a much more popular website in America and most Americans hadn't heard of the other websites.

And when a bunch of Puerto Ricans from a website called Sentochan, which until now had stayed out of the argument became involved, 4chan responded violently using hacking software and physically beating up members of Sentochan when they took part in a comic convention.

Spark alerted authorities to 4chan's actions and several of its members were arrested despite 4chan's claims that their members would be protected due to animosity. Following the event Spark and 4chan locked horns with Spark catching members of 4chan who broke the law by leaking information to the relevant authorities.

Trend It also joined in and when 4chan stepped it up to animal cruelty and pedophilia Trend It had 4chan shut down though 4chan blamed Spark for it.

Google's Major Fuck Up
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Seeking revenge but unable to hack Spark's advanced software they reported Spark to Google on grounds of pedophilia. Google didn't even bother to check if the rumors were true and blocked Spark and its webhost Party Host from their ASL database which was shared across AOL, Bebo, Usenet, Yahoo, MSN Search, Alta Vista and Ask Jeeves as well.

Party Host also hosted a server called T.A.I.L so when it was shut down multiple businesses also shut down suddenly leading them to sue Google over the decision.

Spark being a forum of multiple businesses in Los Angeles and the surrounding area in California, lost income because of it and sued Google over their rash decision but unfortunately the case was delayed repeatedly leaving the businesses to abandon Spark and look elsewhere.

Spark later won their claim and Google was given a court order to add the website back into their search results which they proceeded to delay and later refused to do leading to Spark making millions in profit from compensation charges.

Spark now richer than ever proceeded to buy up failing businesses and use them one way or another to gain interest on their money and after a partnership with a major Japanese publisher under a different name managed to manipulate internet trends in their favor popularizing a series involving a computer generated pop idol.

4chan Wont Give Up And Go Home
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Skipping back in time a little for now, following the popularity of a first person shooter, 4chan managed to make a parody webseries of it using an unusual quirk in the game though ultimately failed to rake in profits as two of their members took all the credit for the idea.

Trying a second time they worked on a project with low quality 3D characters which was a huge success but B-Net became aware of various copyright infringements and ultimately 4chan made no profit from the series though they did gain popularity.

Trying a third time 4chan flooded a popular Japanese video sharing site and art site, two properties owned by B-Net and tried to spin the popularity of their own product which became dubbed as The Eastern Animation Project.

Though it didn't take in Japan initially, enough Americans believed it was the newest Japanese trend that they bought it in the west and 4chan was successful at last. However they had used multiple Japanese mascots in their product and are currently being sued by about 3 dozen Japanese businesses which obviously is not going to end well for 4chan.

Trilo Returns
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Whilst all this was happening the birth of social networking meant that Trilo could operate without having to pay fees for webspace and the Trilo community resurfaced making a popular trend of drawing the very basic "Therefore" logo in chalk on buildings so as to promote the community without breaking the law.

Many people started posting around the internet that they'd seen this wierd symbol and started asking around what it meant and old Trilo members headed the call and met back up again.

Unfortunately a website called Arch stole the idea and claimed it as their own trend changing their branding to suit. Trilo sued and had the website shut down but due to Arch's popularity they became very much hated over the internet.

Arch rebranded themselves and started up again but went on to pull the same trick with other online communities and got sued again. Though Trilo wasn't involved this time they blamed them for the incident and tried to hack the social network that Trilo was using leading to it having multiple cut outs.

Due to the popularity of the social network and the fact it had just been bought out by a very shrew business Arch was pretty much bancrupted but came back from the ashes and currently resides as part of a search engine community on the deep web.

Trilo's experimental programming skills went from strength to strength and they eventually got hired to build interface software for some tailor made web browsers which they sold to patent company and made a nice bit of profit.

It's belived that Arch regularly acts on behalf of 4chan from time to time.

The Dead Web, The Well and Puppy Paws
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Some of these events overlap so bare with me. Hopping back in time a little, Spark became a webhost itself building servers in Boston and became exclusively employed in finding websites due to be shut down and providing webspace and business advice for them or otherwise buying their businesses.

The community took the name Doomsday and after Spark started failing financially a business they hosted known as The Well bought them out and took over management.

However The Well went through multiple changes as shifting leadership and mergers transformed them into what they now call Puppy Paws.

Puppy Paws themselves have taken action against attacks on their community and business and I can tell you that 4chan always comes off worse for wear.

The Imperial Alliance of the Neurologically Diverse and Kuro
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Puppy Paws later recognized their Spark division as a separate entity and rebranded themselves as a coalition known as the Imperial Alliance of the Neurologically Diverse.

Forming a partnership with Trilo, Forks In A Road and B-Net's community of various constituant parts, they formed the Kuro and became major promoters for a certain child friendly first person shooter though it was mostly Trilo's doing.

Kuro then went on to design some gaming hardware and is currently reeling in the profits from that though I don't see it as a viable business venture.

Kuro has also managed challenge businesses belonging to members of 4chan in Japan which is somewhat the subject of controversy as it looks like a revenge movement rather than business strategy.

Me
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Me I'm not interested the business side of things by I've gained very valuable connections across the internet and hope to use them to create my own property.

My Albion project alone has a huge following and a very lovely community of absolute nutcases who help me regularly on generating content as well.

4chan's attacked people around me but luckily not me myself, probably because I don't get so easily offended and I don't really own anything they want or want to get rid of.

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