420chan

420chan is an imageboard based primarily on recreational drug use, however it also has boards related to academia, humor, wrestling, and hentai. It was the center of the Hal Turner and Subeta raids, fostered and transformed Anonymous into a powerful and destructive force, and in doing so had the greatest /i/nsurgency board anon has ever seen. However, Kirtaner has said /i/ will never return to 420chan.

Unique to the imageboard is the lack of the default Anonymous name, instead using names through random selection. This results in various anons going by handles such as Barnaby Shittingwood or Reuben Fuckerton, as well as names generated from video games, wrestling characters and the like. Some boards, such as /b/ and /weed/, implement forced anonymous posting and all boards adopt display IDs in users' posts.

History
Originally there was a site called 420chan.net, but Kirtaner made 420chan.org as a joke, and in response to the 420chan.net guy whining about it, he made it 420chan.org a real imageboard. It was better, and soon surpassed 420chan.net.

Then for a full month 420chan went down because someone posted that virgin killers album that has an underage chick on it (from Wikipedia?) and Level3 nullrouted them for CP. Luckily, 420chan was back in time for /b/day.

From December 2006 until September 2008, 420chan contained a board called /i/ that grew dramatically in size as Kirtaner publicly contributed to and supported raids, closely coordinating with users to do significant damage to their targets. Hal Turner was relentlessly attacked for months, wherein Kirtaner hacked his domain to redirect his sites to 420chan in February with Hal taking two days to regain ownership. The show was unlistenable for 10 weeks due to denial of service attacks, the March 7 episode was two hours of pure absurdity as Hal was friendly to Anonymous and allowing everyone to call in to say hello. This event ended with Hal posting the episode MP3 on 420chan. And finally, trolling him into visible panic for a supposed IRL raid on his house during 4/20 weekend.

By the end of the Hal Turner and Subeta raids in April 2007, their /i/nsurgents were known as an extremely powerful and organized group. This period also included constant annoyance from a teenager named Alex Wuori, whose grudge against /i/ and Kirtaner escalated further and further until Alex approaches Fox11, ends up causing the funniest segment in TV history, and cements "Internet Hate Machine" & "Hackers on Steroids" into internet lore. Most end up mistaking this news segment as covering 4chan despite no such board existing there, leading to explosive and unmanageable mainstream popularity, and the Eternal September.

According to Kirtaner
"Well one day I was sitting around and I noticed that my new hosting package allowed for a single free domain name registration. I was talking to some friends and one of them came up with "420chan", a stupid combination of my penis and drugs. I decide to use this suggestion, and register it as a joke domain many many moons ago. Since then a lot of people bitched at me to do something with the domain, so I did. And you're looking at it."



Currently
There are four types of people who go on 420chan: druggies, antisocial intellectuals, wrestling fans and horny teenagers. To sum up all the boards into 4 categories, there are 13 boards dedicated for every fucking drug that exists, a wrestling board which is the most popular board on the site, some for intellectual bullshit like science and politics, and the porn sections, of which "Hentai" is depressingly popular with Narato fans and the like.

Wordfilters
4chan = the future

nig-ger = jolly african-american

[image post without text in the comment field] = DICKS EVERYWHERE

reddit = circlejerk

friendzone (on /qq/) = cakefart

cuck = stallion