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Afaik it was just that moot had made /a/ and was unsure of what /b/ should be about so he labeled it random.
by 0dayz 2y ago
Afaik it was just that moot had made /a/ and was unsure of what /b/ should be about so he labeled it random.
- jchw 2y agoFinding good sources for something like this is fairly hard, but actually /b/ was the very first board 4chan ever had.[1] Though, actually, the explanation I gave still doesn't add up, because actually, I don't think Futaba Channel ever had an "Anime / Random" board. Whether there was already a similar nomenclature from another contemporary imageboard like world2ch is unclear this far away in time, but either way, even though an /a/ board didn't exist, presumably moot already "reserved" /a/ for a normal anime board, whether it was inspired by another imageboard or what. It's not too clear since there were a lot of potential choices and /b/ is a strange one in the grand scheme of things, and I don't think moot ever really explained it too well. [1]: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/4chan-10-years-christopher-moot-poole/ https://www.dailydot.com/debug/4chan-10-years-christopher-mo...
- 0dayz 2y agoGood work, it's nice in a way that moot-era 4chan still has a legacy, since I think post-moot the site has been slowly drifting into irrelevancy.