Very much so: a surprising number of respectable people use 4chan: many HNers show up there from time to time, IIRC, and it really was an intersection of Americ

Very much so: a surprising number of respectable people use 4chan: many HNers show up there from time to time, IIRC, and it really was an intersection of American and Japanese net cultures, with people taking code and ideas from 2chan, but the culture coming from the site's roots amongst the goons of SA, and also from migrants coming from the usenet. It's a pretty interesting site, in general, and fairly neat in some ways. Unfortunately, the best part of 4chan was axed. What was the best part of 4chan? the text boards (aka world4ch): They were less crowded with awfulness, and threads were immortal. It also played host to /prog/, the programmer's chan, which is probably most famous for inventing the now-famous sleepsort (the ancient HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657277 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657277). Sadly, because threads were immortal, archives were rare, and sleepsort, along with many other threads, has been lost to the mists of time.