Has there ever been a serious attempt at making a history of this site?
We have a way of communicating with each other that could be considered its own dialect, a mixture of different layers of irony and memes that is utterly incomprehensible to outside viewers. Even subtle things that we don't even think about before using, like >how can __________ compete or even just >implying
In a lot of ways the culture of this place has become more distinct than a lot of modern national cultures, and there are so many events over the past 13 years that have gone into shaping that. We don't even think about them when communicating on here, we just do it because that's how things are on this site.
A serious, academic study of the history of Veeky Forums would probably attract a shitload of cancer here, but damn, would I like to buy one. As it is most of "our history" is passed down through anecdotal stories told by users to other users, and largely isn't even written down. From a sociological standpoint, this site is pretty much an untouched gold mine.
There's millions of internet forums out there, each with their own set of rules and jokes. This one is in no way unique. The concept of an internet forum is worth documenting, Veeky Forums isn't.
Gabriel Young
>internet forums You mean those things that are all dead because of Facebook and Reddit that Veeky Forums has outlived by a long shot?
>Veeky Forums >an "internet forum" Wow, first post on a thread about Veeky Forums's history is a newfag.
Aiden Allen
FUCK IT AMIGOS, I AM TIRED OF THIS PROTESTANT BULLSHIT. I AM GOING TO FUCK THAT QUEEN. GIVE ME 30 MINUTES. IF ENGLAND DOESN’T FALL IN 30 MINUTES, I WILL AN HERO MYSELF IN 30 MINUTES
Jackson Lopez
yes but it would be quite hard to cram every significant detail about everything that's happened on this site
Landon Carter
Stay cucked, Philip, we were always 1 step ahead of you anyways.
Veeky Forums.org/4channews.php Just scroll to the bottom
James Baker
But that's correct you high school dropout
Xavier Price
moot did this retrospective when he thought the site was kaput back in 2004. Shii has a good history about the early days of imageboard culture in general. Would definitely recommend him because he's a primary source (he was one of the world2ch autists that got butthurt when moot cucked them out of being the go-to american imageboard) world2ch.org/wiki/doku.php
Connor Hughes
There is info on Veeky Forums out there in books
Jace Roberts
What's this from?
Joshua Wilson
Time Magazine a couple weeks ago, in an article about the alt-right
Luke Roberts
It was an article in Time magazine fairly recently
Holy shit, there's so much exploitable in that image.
Wyatt Gomez
>few normal people are actually on it to be trolled NORMIES GET OUT!
Nathaniel Thomas
>(((Bernstein))) was /pol/ ever wrong?
Joshua Jones
he was always a little overmatched imo. can you imagine having to deal with Veeky Forums blowing up and all the financial difficulty at age 15? he never really stood a chance.
Brody Long
knowyourmeme.com
Jonathan Jones
No, let it die in peace.
Let it fade into an echo of a dream and then let it be nothing.
