What will future historians say of 4chan?

>>1397499
>4chan was a website dedicated to chinese hentai and home to sorcerers who utilized an archaic form of sorcery known as 'meme magic'. It is said that a many warriors who fought for God-Emperor Trump originated from 4chan and aided in the great meme war presidency race of 1 A.K. (Year of kek). 4chan eventually collapsed due to newfag migrations from Reddit and out of control faggotry from OP's.

>implying future historians will be normies
Our autistic legacy will live on faggot

>>1397499
>hic habitat felicitas
top kek

Probably'll be of interest as one of the first major 'anonymous' message boards, of interest to virtual sociology and anthropology for anonymous conduct and whatever happens to memetics.
I actually hope someone eventually writes a (good) study on 4chan. I honestly think it's really important to American culture as an entity

As for our day-to-day shitposting and board-culture specifics? No one's gonna say shit

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>>1397499
>4chan was one of the first major interest in 'anonymous' message boards. Though its contributions to the internet and its culture are heavily controversial in mainstream media, it is, undoubtedly, one of the biggest subcultures and contributors, in internet culture as a whole.

Oh, you mean about our shitposting? Nothing, I guess.

>>1397499
Probably like how we treated those graffiti on Pompei's walls i guess

>>1397499
>Net-Archaeologists plumbing the Ancient Internet will come across Baneposting.
>WHAT DID THEY MEAN BY THIS??

>>1397499
Depends entirely upon how long it and the internet as a whole lasts. Assuming new users can replace posters lost overtime it can potentially last decades.

>>1398028
>board-culture specifics
They would probably want to mention how different the large boards are from the small ones, especially /b/.

Maybe we should all just get together and write a history or encyclopedia of 4chan. Who better to write it than the anonymous masses that use the site?

If we become an "ancient civilization" I strongly doubt anyone will know 4chan ever existed.

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>>1397499
They'll mainly go off of archive sites, screenshots, and KnowYourMeme.

They'll try to explain material in terms of the times but occasionally insist political bias of some sort or another.

The same thing they'll say about TinyMUD, QuakeNet, and rec.humor: nothing. 4chan is entirely uninfluential and uninteresting, and won't provide anything of interest to future historians.

Everything 4chan does to influence culture gets credited to Facebook and Twitter. They're the public face of the internet, and all of its influence will be attributed to them.

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>>1397499
NOTHING. THEY'LL SAY NOTHING

>>1397499
>implying anyone is willing to archive this site long enough and complete enough for any accurate impression to be formed in the far future
They will see some memetic shitposts, autism, and vitriolic venting and think "Dear lord, what a shithole these people must have lived in."
Oh wait, yeah, that is an accurate assessment.

>>1401697
This, we are nothing

>>1401680
but tinymud, quakenet and rec.humor didn't drive people to commit suicide...
>>1401697
I am pretty sure youtube will get more credit than twitter and Facebook because there are no people being paid from getting friends or retweets on Facebook or twitter and money speaks. YouTube will be seen as the Library of Alexandria of the Internet while facebook, twitter and othersites including 4chan will be just listed as sites people went onto to discussing things that came from YouTube.

>>1397499
>What will future historians say of 4chan?

And nothing of value was lost.

>>1401218
Yes. Let's do this.

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>>1401733
No.

They will say one word.

>>1397533
underappreciated

>>1403787
Chances of this happening are about as high as another revolution

>>1404514
As long as threads are up and people participate we can do this. Board projects have been done before, so there is no reason we couldn't pull this off. We'd need knowledgeable people from every board and we'd need people who can proofread and edit everything, but it is doable.