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  • 1250

    • 1250: 1250 students and 50 teachers were evacuated. - 4chan, Wikipedia.

  • 2003


  • 2005

    • 2005: The lolcat meme was widely popularized by 4chan in the form of "Caturday". - 4chan, Wikipedia.
    • 2005: A meme known as the "duckroll" began, after moot used a word filter to change "egg" to "duck" across 4chan. - 4chan, Wikipedia.
    • 2005: The first recorded use of the term "lolcat" is from the anonymous imageboard 4chan circa 2005. - Lolcat, Wikipedia.
    • 2005: In late 2005, Harvard gained notoriety as an internet meme on 4chan, where she became known as "Creepy-chan" due to her ghostly digital photos of herself in heavy eyeliner and broken-babydoll outfits and poses, as well as her fascination with nosebleeds. - Allison Harvard, Wikipedia.

  • 2006

    • February 2, 2006: Blurred was a semi-erotic experimental art website, created by Gallagher in 1998 using the pen name "blurri." Gallagher later took it offline for personal reasons, but a discussion on February 2, 2006 on 4chan started a coordinated attempt to discover the contents of this website. - Fred Gallagher (cartoonist), Wikipedia.
    • 2006: It is also a popular Internet meme that began in the second half of 2006 in the Internet community 4chan. - Caramelldansen, Wikipedia.
    • 2006: The "no invasions" rule was added in late 2006, after /b/ users spent most of the summer "invading" Habbo Hotel. - 4chan, Wikipedia.
    • October 22, 2006: The threat claimed that the attack would be carried out on October 22, the final day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. - 4chan, Wikipedia.
    • October 18, 2006: The Department of Homeland Security warned National Football League officials in Miami, New York City, Atlanta, Seattle, Houston, Oakland, and Cleveland about a possible threat involving the simultaneous use of dirty bombs at stadiums. - 4chan, Wikipedia.
    • October 20, 2006: Brahm turned himself in to federal authorities, and was charged with fabricating a fake terrorist threat and taken into custody. - 4chan, Wikipedia.
    • December, 2006: Users of 4chan and other websites "raided" Hal Turner by launching DDoS attacks and prank calling his phone-in radio show during December 2006 and January 2007. - 4chan, Wikipedia.

  • 2007

    • March, 2007: The trailer for the video game Grand Theft Auto IV was released. - 4chan, Wikipedia.
    • 2007: A link to the YouTube video of Tay Zonday's song "Chocolate Rain" was posted on /b/ on July 11, 2007. - 4chan, Wikipedia.
    • July 26, 2007: KTTV Fox 11 aired a report on Anonymous, calling them a group of "hackers on steroids", "domestic terrorists", and collectively an "Internet hate machine" on July 26, 2007. - 4chan, Wikipedia.
    • September 11, 2007: Around midnight on September 11, 2007, a student posted photographs of mock pipe bombs and another photograph of him holding them while saying he would blow up his high school—Pflugerville High School in Pflugerville, Texas—at 9:11 a.m. - 4chan, Wikipedia.
    • September 11, 2007: On the morning of September 11, 2007, a teenager in Pflugerville was arrested in connection to terrorist threats made against Pflugerville High School that were posted on 4chan. - Pflugerville High School, Wikipedia.
    • September 11, 2007: On September 11. - 4chan, Wikipedia.
    • September 11, 2007: At 9:11 A.M. - 4chan, Wikipedia.
    • October 30, 2007: A student from another school, Jeremie Dalin, 17 posted a threat against Stevenson High School on the 4chan website. - Stevenson High School (Lincolnshire, Illinois), Wikipedia.
    • December 8, 2007: Jarrad Willis, a 20-year-old from Melbourne, Australia was arrested on December 8, 2007, after apparently posting on 4chan that he was "going to shoot and kill as many people as I can until which time I am incapacitated or killed by the police". - 4chan, Wikipedia.

  • 2008


  • 2009

    • January, 2009: Moot signed a new deal with an advertising company; as of February 2009, he was $20,000 in debt and the site was continuing to lose money. - 4chan, Wikipedia.
    • February, 2009: The Washington Post reported that moot had attended Virginia Commonwealth University for a few semesters before dropping out. - 4chan, Wikipedia.
    • February 4, 2009: A posting on the 4chan /b/[74] said there would be a school shooting at St Eskils Gymnasium in Eskilstuna, Sweden. - 4chan, Wikipedia.
    • February, 2009: In mid-February 2009, two videos featuring the physical abuse of a domestic cat named Dusty by a person calling himself "Timmy" were posted on YouTube. - 4chan, Wikipedia.
    • March, 2009: TIME backpedaled somewhat on the issue by placing the moot persona on the 2009 Time 100 finalists list. - 4chan, Wikipedia.
    • April, 2009: Moot was voted the world's most influential person of 2008 by an open Internet poll conducted by Time. - 4chan, Wikipedia.
    • April, 2009: He wrote an article for Time Magazine about moot. - Rick Astley, Wikipedia.
    • May, 2009: Members of the site attacked YouTube, posting pornographic videos on the site. - 4chan, Wikipedia.
    • 2009: The winner of the annual Time 100 online poll was moot, the founder of the 4chan website, who received 16,794,368 votes. - Time 100, Wikipedia.
    • 2009: Byron got second place in Wired.com's 2009 sexiest geek contest, finishing just behind moot, the founder of 4chan. - Kari Byron, Wikipedia.
    • July 27, 2009: AT&T issued a statement claiming that the block was put in place after an AT&T customer was affected by a denial-of-service attack originating from IP addresses connected to img.4chan.org, and was an attempt to "prevent this attack from disrupting service for the impacted AT&T customer, and... - 4chan, Wikipedia.
    • July 26, 2009: AT&T's DSL branch temporarily blocked access to the img.4chan.org domain (host of /b/ and /r9k/), which was initially believed to be an attempt at Internet censorship, and met with hostility on 4chan's part. - 4chan, Wikipedia.
    • July 26, 2009: AT&T customers were unable to access certain sections of the image board 4chan, specifically /b/ (the "random" board) and /r9k/ (the "ROBOT 9000" board, a spin-off of the random board). - AT&T, Wikipedia.

  • 2010

    • January 6, 2010: The videos uploaded by the user had apparently become popular with 4chan members, who subsequently became angered after the account was suspended and called for a new wave of pornographic videos to be uploaded to YouTube on January 6, 2010. - 4chan, Wikipedia.
    • January, 2010: Members of the site attacked YouTube again in response to the suspension of YouTube user lukeywes1234 for failing to meet the minimum age requirement of thirteen. - 4chan, Wikipedia.
    • February 10, 2010: Moot spoke at the TED2010 conference in Long Beach, California. - 4chan, Wikipedia.
    • February 4, 2010: 4chan started receiving reports from Verizon Wireless customers that they were having difficulties accessing the site's image boards. - 4chan, Wikipedia.
    • February 7, 2010: Verizon Wireless confirmed that 4chan is "explicitly blocked". - 4chan, Wikipedia.
    • 2010: A photoshopped version of Pedobear appeared along with mascots of the 2010 Winter Olympics in an article on the games in Gazeta Olsztyńska, a Polish newspaper. - 4chan, Wikipedia.






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