How were you introduced to this site? Back in 2006/2007 someone

"that" kid in school told me never to come to 4chan back in 2009

I wish I listened

>>35827633
Encyclopedia Dramatica like in 07-08 maybe

Never fully understood what this place was because I was used to forums at the time and didn't become an actual user til like 2010

Obviously these days 2010 is oldfag status but I don't consider any who came after 08 to be an old fag

That being said, no one really cares about when you joined anymore, that phase has seemingly passed. Nowadays it seems to be all about not being a normalfag from Reddit/tumblr/Facebook or whatever

>>35827633
I literally don't even remember. It's actually kind of upsetting. I barely remember my life before 4chan holy shit. What did I even do all day?

>>35827633
2006.
The Joe Rogan forum.

>>35827633
I was looking for hentai in 2004 or 2005 or something and stumbled across 5chan.net which said it was a spinoff from 4chan, and that's how I found this place. Well /h/ specifically.

in 7th grade in 2008, some dude showed me a gif of a guy's head being cut off on /b/

>>35827633
YTMND in 2005. Came for Porn stayed for b and ended up on r9K. This is my main board beyond biz sci and x. To be fair this place is better in some ways
We no longer have memes based on misspelli words. An hero was cringe worthy. I miss mature gamer though

>2007
Found 4chan via YTMND
>2008-9
Don't own a computer, too poor for internet so have to use Internet cafes, 4chan not really appropriate for public space so wasn't able to browse
>2010
Finally able to buy computer but still can't afford internet so browse occasionally from some cafes and libraries when it's not blocked
>2011-present
Finally able to afford slow, patchy, expensive internet, browse every day
Such is the life of an Australian peasant

>browse german board called pr0gramm since a few years, being oldfag
>from time to time 4chan threads are posted
>HWNDU vol. 3 comes up
Now I'm here since a week, feel at home immediately

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>Browsing funnyjunk one day
>Posts talking about the dark place called 4chan
>Leave funnyjunk for 4chan |
>Hated trap threads at first but you know i like that shit now

Wish i never found this place, I have been here since THE SURGEON (FANTASTIC!), Tired of hitting f5 all night? and Puddi. about 8 years I've browsed this cesspool.

from the hal turner raids in 2006/2007

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Not related, but Op's mention of classmate getting expelled reminded me of this story

>Me, freshman in high school
> There's a notorious autist in my grade, pic related
>Named Thomas
>Rumors run rampant of him and his older brother, a senior, having a continuous sexual relationship
>Everyone is creeped the fuck out by him
>Has eyes that stare into the soul of your dick
>Only friends are his sister and equally creepy brother
>In the computer lab one day
>Thomas is in far corner of lab, sitting by himself, but still sitting somewhat behind me and friend
>Teacher has us typing paper
>Thomas has those shitty headphones that leak noise
>Room is completely quiet
>Suddenly hear the faint sound of a guy moaning
>Everyone in class stops typing
>Gay moaning continues
>Teacher is now alerted to the noise
>Everyone looks over at Thomas
>Thomas is intently staring at the screen
>He's bobbing slightly, but quickly, up and down
>Me and friend crane our necks
>Glance at screen
>Mfw he's watching gay porn in class
>Teacher quickly walks over to him, catches him in the act
>Thomas screeches
>Jumps up, attempts to run out of the room
>Trips over chair
>Headphones rip out of computer, gay porn is now blasting through the small speakers attached to the PC
>Gets up, and runs toward door
>Doesn't realize his tiny dick is hanging out of his pants
>Thomas gets expelled for watching gay incest porn

He was talked about all through high school

>>35827982

Regel 1 du dummer hurensohn

Someone told me /gif/ was like a highlight reel of porn so i gave it a shot. That was 5 years ago.

i got tired of going to moeeki.net for all my hentai, so one day i Googled hentai and it brought up /h/ on 4chan. musta been around 2003-2004 because i was still in middle school.

a buddy introduced me to google in like 2001, was really lucky for that.

Back in highschool some /b/tards were trying to act like they were edgy and cool because they went to 4chan. I went there to see what all the fuss was about, and while I did not enjoy /b/ I did like /v/ for a while.

Sorta just stuck around since then even though my interests have changed.

People were posting gore from /b/ on a chatroom app i found on Cydia back when i was 13 (around 7 years ago). I didnt really care about 4chan until i was 16 or so when i started hardcore lurking /g/ and /b/.
I still go on that app to this day too

>>35827982
>1 week
LURK. MORE.


Anyways, for me, let me just say the consequences were never the same.

In 2004, /b/ liked to bother little autistic forums like one I knew.

>>35828280
Good story, reminds me of the good old greentext stories on /r9k/.

An ancient meme from g+ sent me here

>>35827633
An online friend showed me.

I've lurked/posted since 2009, but first knew about 4chan maybe 1-2 years before that but never really browsed it.

i was browsing ED for some reason and heard about le chainz

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>>35828597
Glad you thought so, anon

Just found 4Chan today when I was on reddit. I love these frog memes.

I heard about 4chan and 8ch from Agario. Been here ever since with a break in between.

Rage comics circa 2010

Knew about it when I was a huge time lurker on Encyclopedia Dramatica (Before the Oh Internet nonsense came) but did not use 4chan until 2013

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>>35828280
>Headphones rip out of computer, gay porn is now blasting through the small speakers attached to the PC

>>35827633
Someone sent me here from bodybuilding for the caloric maintenance calculator. I've stayed for zyzz and Scooby memes since.

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Back in 2012 my weird-but-cool friend showed me /b/ and it amazed me, I'd never seen such rampant degeneracy. I just browsed that until late 2013, which was when I discovered /mu/. I think I browsed r9k a little before it was removed, but the majority of my time here has been since it's reinstatement.

2008

anime

it was 1 year after i figured out how to post
yes im that stupid.

A kid at school showed me in 2006 and the first time i browsed it was like
>sunshine of your love.mp3
And ive been hooked ever since

I tried to visit a couple of times in late 2005 and early 2006 but couldn't get past the main page. Then the Habbo raids happened in June 2006 and I think somebody posted a direct link to /b/ on YTMND.

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Used to hunt GIFS for Second Life. I would deconstruct them into textures I would make cool animated paintings to sell,and this pic was my store. I would lurk in the Daily Rotten for usable ones the regulars would post,then followed the trail to 4chan. Didn't leave the GIF boards until a few years ago,and now I try to offer useful advice to the denizens of /r9k/,/ic/,and /lit/.

>2010
>only 12
>discover memes through bored youtube searching
>love the idea of internet in jokes, find them funny but don't openly sperg out about them
>hear about a site called 4chan where the memes come from
>never go there
>2012
>have a look at what this 4chan's all about
>originally browse /mlp/
>then /x/
>then /tv/
>etc.
>2017
>19, I have no regrets this place is great

>>35827633
>expelled for masturbating in the computer lab.
Jesus school systems are fucking retarded.

>either 2006 or 2007, forgot which (holy shit that would have made me 10 or 11 at the time, God damn)
>Posted a lot on Vidya forums
>Kept running into occasional references to /b/, usually as some kind of disgusting troll site that keeps raiding other websites
>Naturally got my 10 year old brain thinking
>Knew I had to check this place out
>Drop into /b/
>This was back when raids were still allowed, and /b/ was already shit but still lurkable, would be a few more years before it descended into the cesspit that it is today
>Immediately fell in love with this internet bully lair
>Lurked for a few more months without posting (I was afraid that this place wasn't actually anonymous, especially because I thought the email field was mandatory)
>Eventually started posting and /b/ became the focus of my life
>A year or two later started browsing other board and really began to realize just how shit /b/ actually was
>Around two years after that heard about Krautchan /int/ on /int/, discovered 4chan was absolute shit compared to it, moved there

And here I am, 20 years old, 10 years later. Krautchan was actually shut down just a few days ago, so I'm back on this shithole. I wasted literally my entire teens on this septic tank. I kind of wonder what my life would be like now if I had never gone through with the impulse to visit so many years ago

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>"the site that shall not be visited"
>go on 4chan just out of curiosity anyways
>go straight to /b/ like a retard and just skim threads
>get used to the weird shit and lurk through /k/
>lurk ever since

>2004
>someone links to an image from 4chan on a ragnarok online private server IRC channel and I browse around for a few minutes
>don't actually start browsing until late 2005 when it starts getting popular enough for all the cool internet kids on forums and chatrooms I frequented to mention it openly

Two autistic retards in the back of my class kept saying "Milhouse is a meme" and cackling like autistic fuckwits.
Somebody asked them what the fuck they were doing and they just kept laughing and saying they're not allowed to tel us.

When I got home I googled "Milhouse meme" and ended up finding this place.

9gag to reddit to 4chan

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>>35827633
I'm like 90% sure I was listening to death grips or something at the time and just thought, "what even is the deep web and where would gore shit be?"
"Oh that's right, on 4chan"
>Got to /b/ and realized how vanilla it was compared to last time I checked (2011)
>See a post about Trump because election was in a week
>Head to /pol/
>Get a lot less liberal from leftover tumblr shit 3 years ago
>Actually want Trump to win to disprove that the election is rigged
>Go to /hm/ after that
>Goodfapsfordays.avi
>Go to /mu/
>Hate the people there
>Go to front page
>"What the hell is robot9000k"
>rip