4chan was started in 2003 in the bedroom of a 15-year old student from New York City who posts as "moot".[6] He intended the site to be a place to discuss Japanese comics and anime, an American counterpart to the popular Japanese Futaba Channel ("2chan") imageboard.[7][8] Prior to starting 4chan, moot had been a regular participant on the Something Awful forums.[9]
4chan: Chinese fetuba channel, memes: lulcats, Rick rolling, /b/ random boards, Encyclopedia Dramatica
Internet memes are catchphrases or images that spread quickly, peer to peer, across the Internet.[32] Many Internet memes have originated on 4chan, usually /b/, as its fast moving, crowd psychology nature enables content to quickly be passed on to large numbers of viewers.
The sins of the bad boys in the Woodbury group seems to be a little bit more serious… not because that they harbered griefers extraordinaire amongst themselves (which unfortunately they did) but that they ruffled up some feathers in the ranks of Lindens. First the JLU Wiki leak masterminded by the WU subgroup, the Wrong Hands, then the exposition of the Emerald viewer developers, Jcool et al… again by the Wrong Hands… Let’s put it this way: the information revealed as a result of the Brainiac Wiki leak suggested that some of the folks in the G-team had been getting rather cozy with some of the people who like to wear tight spandex. The questioning of Fractured Crystal (Jcool) as to his motives (and his questionable background) by the Wrong Hands and the disclosure of the datamining that had been taking place in the Emerald viewer severly undermined the credibility of LL who gave its blessing to the tainted viewer. So the logical conclusion, in the absence of any other explanation at the wake of this unexpected move was that these two incidents led to the mass ban of WU.
Feted Inner Core -> Feted Inner Sandbox
Department of Media, Culture, and Design, Edward Clift
Hacked MySpace profiles and posted profane pictures
Hacked into Tea Party site
9. PROJECT CHANOLOGY
Project Chanology (also called Operation Chanology) was a protest movement against the practices of the Church of Scientology by Anonymous, a loosely unorganized Internet-based group that emerged from the 4chan message boards. The project was started as a “mental warfare” response to the Church of Scientology's attempts to remove the video of a highly publicized interview with Scientologist Tom Cruise from the Internet in January 2008.
The project was publicly launched with a video posted to YouTube, "Message to Scientology," on January 21, 2008. The project's goals were to "take down all Scientology Web sites as an immediate act of retaliatory censorship, counteract Scientology's attempts to suppress the videos (and other cult materials) by constantly reposting them, and publicize the cult's well-documented history of employing suppressive and violent tactics to mask its illegal or immoral activities." The initial cyber attack, which came in the form of DDoS, was followed by black faxes, prank calls, and other activities intended to disrupt the Church of Scientology's operations. In February 2008, the focus of the protest shifted to legal methods, including nonviolent protests and an attempt to have the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the Church of Scientology's tax exempt status in the United States. The cult identified and allegedly lied in order to prosecute individual protesters. It fabricated press releases with images taken from unrelated stories in an attempt to portray the protests as violent. Ultimately, the success of this initiative is questionable at best. Although it mobilized a large community to protest, it wasn't able to expose the questionable activities of the church.
The sins of the bad boys in the Woodbury group seems to be a little bit more serious… not because that they harbered griefers extraordinaire amongst themselves (which unfortunately they did) but that they ruffled up some feathers in the ranks of Lindens. First the JLU Wiki leak masterminded by the WU subgroup, the Wrong Hands, then the exposition of the Emerald viewer developers, Jcool et al… again by the Wrong Hands… Let’s put it this way: the information revealed as a result of the Brainiac Wiki leak suggested that some of the folks in the G-team had been getting rather cozy with some of the people who like to wear tight spandex. The questioning of Fractured Crystal (Jcool) as to his motives (and his questionable background) by the Wrong Hands and the disclosure of the datamining that had been taking place in the Emerald viewer severly undermined the credibility of LL who gave its blessing to the tainted viewer. So the logical conclusion, in the absence of any other explanation at the wake of this unexpected move was that these two incidents led to the mass ban of WU.
