This article is about Futaba Channel. See 2channel if you are looking for Ni-Channeru.

Futaba Channel

URL	2chan.net
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Imageboard/TextBBS
Registration	No
Owner
Created by
Launched	August 30, 2001
Revenue	none
Current status	Up

Futaba Channel (ふたば(双葉)☆ちゃんねる, Futaba Channeru^?), or Futaba for short, is an internet forum in Japan. It is considered one of Japan's most popular imageboards dealing in otaku and underground culture, as well as the oldest and the largest. Futaba Channel was set up on August 30, 2001, as a refuge for 2channel users when 2channel was in danger of shutting down. This article is about the Japanese forum. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a technical, Web-related term used in two distinct meanings: in popular usage, it is a widespread synonym for Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) — many popular and technical texts will use the term URL when referring to URI; strictly, the idea of a uniform syntax for... 3 major imageboards: Futaba Channel, 4chan, and iichan, along with the Overchan index. ... August 30 is the 242nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (243rd in leap years), with 123 days remaining. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A typical Internet forum discussion, with common elements such as emoticons, avatars, and quotes. ... 3 major imageboards: Futaba Channel, 4chan, and iichan, along with the Overchan index. ... Otaku is a Japanese descriptive term sometimes used pejoratively to refer to people who are enthusiasts of certain pop cultural genres. ... August 30 is the 242nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (243rd in leap years), with 123 days remaining. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the Japanese forum. ...

Concept

Futaba Channel consists of about 60 imageboards (three of which are oekaki boards) and about 40 message boards, with topics ranging from daily personal problems to junk food, sports, ramen, and pornography. There is also a place to upload general non-image files. Futaba is powered by a custom script based off of GazouBBS. The Futaba script is open source and are used to run many Japanese imageboards. 3 major imageboards: Futaba Channel, 4chan, and iichan, along with the Overchan index. ... For Oekaki number puzzles, see Paint by numbers. ... An Internet forum, also known as a message board or discussion board, is a web application that provides for online discussions, and is the modern descendant of the bulletin board systems and existing Usenet news systems that were widespread in the 1980s and 1990s. ... Cheetos Junk food is a term describing food that is perceived to be unhealthy or having poor nutritional value, according to Food Standards Agency. ... Fresh ramen noodles Ramen , IPA: ,  ) is a Japanese dish of noodles served in broth originating in China. ... Pornographic movies Pornography (Porn) (from Greek πόρνη (porne) prostitute and γραφή (grafe) writing), more informally referred to as porn or porno, is the explicit representation of the human body or sexual activity with the goal of sexual arousal. ...

Futaba culture

The boards are, like many Asian forums, anonymous, with an optional tripcode system also in place. Look up anon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Tripcodes are a method of authentication that does not require registration. ...

Users are generally expected to lurk before posting, in order to understand the culture they are entering. Anonymity is considered a good thing; users who go out of their way to identify themselves are often ridiculed. In Internet culture, a lurker is a person who reads discussions on a message board, newsgroup, chatroom, file sharing or other interactive system, but rarely participates. ...

Futuba has spawned a number of strange visual gags and characters; the OS-tans would be one such meme that has spread to western internet culture. Some of the characters that appear on Futaba Channel have entered the real world in the form of various real-life goods, such as figures, dolls or images printed on pillows. Such items are mainly produced by Japanese dōjin artists and groups. A group image of the OS-tans. ... The term meme (IPA: , to rhyme with theme, not or ), coined in 1976 by the zoologist and evolutionary scientist Richard Dawkins, refers to a unit of cultural information transferable from one mind to another. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Dōjinshi. ...

Internet users outside of Japan are not allowed to post on Futaba Channel, to try and save on both bandwidth and avoid foreign DDoS attacks. Other imageboards have been created outside of Japan that follow Futuba's example, most noticeably in the United States, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Russia. The largest English-speaking imageboard is 4chan. A denial-of-service attack (also, DoS attack) is an attack on a computer system or network that causes a loss of service to users, typically the loss of network connectivity and services by consuming the bandwidth of the victim network or overloading the computational resources of the victim system. ... 4chan (Japanese: Yotsuba, lit. ...

Non-Japanese Internet users sometimes refer to Futaba Channel as 2chan, due to the address of the site. It is frequently unclear whether this is intended to mean Futaba Channel or 2channel, and sometimes it even refers to both, as if they were a single website. To eliminate confusion, the names Futaba and 2channel are often used. Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a technical, Web-related term used in two distinct meanings: in popular usage, it is a widespread synonym for Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) — many popular and technical texts will use the term URL when referring to URI; strictly, the idea of a uniform syntax for...

See also

• Imageboard
• 2channel
• 4chan

3 major imageboards: Futaba Channel, 4chan, and iichan, along with the Overchan index. ... This article is about the Japanese forum. ... 4chan (Japanese: Yotsuba, lit. ...

External links

• Futaba Channel
• Translated Futaba Navigation