2channel (2ちゃんねる, pronounced "ni-channeru", 2ch for short) is the largest Internet forum in the world.1 With over 10 million visitors every day (as of 2001), it is gaining significant influence in Japanese society, approaching that of traditional mass media such as TV, radio and magazines. 2channel - Overview. 2ch was opened in 1999 by Hiroyuki Nishimura, known simply as "Hiroyuki" (Including:

2channel - Overview
2channel - Anonymous posting
2channel - Culture 2channel - Densha Otoko 2channel - Terminology 2channel - Common abbreviations and phrases 2channel - English Offsprings 2channel - Masashi Tashiro 2channel - IRC@2ch 2channel - Special characters 2channel - Footnotes

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2channel, 2channel - Overview, 2channel - Anonymous posting, 2channel - Culture, 2channel - Densha Otoko, 2channel - Terminology, 2channel - Common abbreviations and phrases, 2channel - English Offsprings, 2channel - Masashi Tashiro, 2channel - IRC@2ch, 2channel - Special characters, 2channel - Footnotes

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Several important and/or well-known social issues (incidents, social movements, etc) are known to have relation with this forum, and due to early shocking events such as the Neomugicha incident, this forum is somewhat acknowledged as "underground-ish" despite its wide acceptance, especially in the younger generations. On the other hand, these incidents helped 2ch to have huge publicity through mass-media coverings. 2ch members participate in various distributed computing projects such as the United Devices Cancer Research Project and ...

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2channel, 2channel - Overview, 2channel - Anonymous posting, 2channel - Culture, 2channel - Densha Otoko, 2channel - Terminology, 2channel - Common abbreviations and phrases, 2channel - English Offsprings, 2channel - Masashi Tashiro, 2channel - IRC@2ch, 2channel - Special characters, 2channel - Footnotes

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Age may refer to: The length of time that a person has lived: ageing, for the social, cultural, and economic factors of age and ageing. senescence, for the biology and science of ageing. A period of history: list of time periods three-age system geologic timescale astrological age Other: A command used in 2channel, a foremost BBS in Japan Age, Mie, a district in Japan One of the D'ni Ages, the fictional un ...

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When communicating with others over the Internet, it is frequently preferred to not use any sort of identifiable handle (such as a "user name" or other arbitrary way of identifying who is speaking). The most popular worldwide example of this is within the Japanese forum 2channel. The forum prides itself on the total anonymity of those who post to the channel. The administrators of 2channel see the anonymous posting as a real benefit to those who post to the forum, because it is the argument, not the credibility of the author, that is being d ...

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Anonymity, Anonymity - Means of obtaining anonymity, Anonymity - Anonymity and social situations, Anonymity - Anonymity commerce and crime, Anonymity - Issues facing the anonymous, Anonymity - Referring to the anonymous, Anonymity - Anonymity and the Internet, Anonymity - Anonymity and politics

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Virtual community - Discussion boards. Electric Minds GameFAQs Something Awful 2channel Virtual community - Social networks. See article: List of social networking sites Virtual community - Art communities. DeviantART Sheezyart Elfwood Virtual community - MUD MUSH MOO. GemStone ][ and Ge ...

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Virtual community, Virtual community - Benchmark Virtual Communities, Virtual community - Additional Virtual Community Listings, Virtual community - Discussion boards, Virtual community - Social networks, Virtual community - Art communities, Virtual community - MUD MUSH MOO, Virtual community - Other types, Virtual community - Virtual Community Pioneers and Experts, Virtual community - See Also

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Internet forums are prevalent in several developed countries. In terms of countable posts, Japan is far in the lead with over two million posts per day on their largest forum, 2channel. The United States does not have any one large forum, but instead several hundred thousand smaller forums, the largest of which are GameFAQs, Gaia Online, IGN, and Neoseeker. Other countries such as China, the Netherlands, and France are also home to hundreds of independent forums. Some countries such as Finland and Sweden do not have many prevalent forums des ...

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Internet forum, Internet forum - History, Internet forum - Culture, Internet forum - Software features, Internet forum - Comparison with other web applications

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Early Internet forums could be described as web versions of newsgroups or electronic mailing lists; allowing people to post messages and comment on other messages. Later developments emulated the different newsgroups or individual lists, providing more than one forum, dedicated to a particular topic. At first, Internet forums had the same structure as a guestbook or mailing list, but the Ultimate Bulletin Board software, created in 1996, invented a table-based layout that evolved into the designs used in modern software such as vBulletin and phpBB. In Japan, 2channel's style had a similar effec ...

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Internet forum, Internet forum - History, Internet forum - Culture, Internet forum - Software features, Internet forum - Comparison with other web applications

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Virtual community - Discussion boards. Electric Minds GameFAQs Something Awful 2channel The_Talk Virtual community - Social networks. See article: List of social networking sites Virtual community - Art communities. DeviantART Sheezyart Elfwood Virtual community - MUD MUSH MOO. GemStone ][ and Ge ...

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Virtual community, Virtual community - Benchmark Virtual Communities, Virtual community - Additional Virtual Community Listings, Virtual community - Discussion boards, Virtual community - Social networks, Virtual community - Art communities, Virtual community - MUD MUSH MOO, Virtual community - Other types, Virtual community - Virtual Community Pioneers and Experts

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Early Internet forums could be described as web versions of newsgroups or electronic mailing lists; allowing people to post messages and comment on other messages. Later developments emulated the different newsgroups or individual lists, providing more than one forum, dedicated to a particular topic. At first, Internet forums had the same structure as a guestbook or mailing list, but the Ultimate Bulletin Board software, created in 1996, invented a table-based layout that evolved into the designs used in modern software such as vBulletin, Simple Machines Forum, and phpBB. In Japan, 2channel's style had a similar effec ...

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Internet forum, Internet forum - History, Internet forum - Culture, Internet forum - Software features, Internet forum - Comparison with other web applications

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Internet forums are prevalent in several developed countries. In terms of countable posts, Japan is far in the lead with over two million posts per day on their largest forum, 2channel. The United States does not have any one large forum, but instead several hundred thousand smaller forums, the largest of which are GameFAQs, Gaia Online, and IGN. Other countries such as China, the Netherlands, and France are also home to hundreds of independent forums. Some countries such as Finland and Sweden do not have many prevalent forums despite having open and easily available Internet access. As of yet no study has been done on the prevalenc ...

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Internet forum, Internet forum - History, Internet forum - Culture, Internet forum - Software features, Internet forum - Comparison with other web applications

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Users from East Asia (particularly Japanese language speakers those who visit 2channel) popularized a style of emoticons known as verticons (Japanese: 顔文字, kaomoji; literally, "face characters"), which can be understood without turning one's head to the left. These styles of faces roughly resemble the style commonly found in Japanese anime and manga comic books. The Japanese language is usually encoded using double-byte character codes. As a result there is a bigger variety of characters that can be used in emoticons, man ...

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Emoticon, Emoticon - History, Emoticon - Background, Emoticon - Creation of :-, Emoticon - Internet usage, Emoticon - Purposes, Emoticon - Western style, Emoticon - Basic examples, Emoticon - Variants, Emoticon - Head and hands emoticons, Emoticon - Posture emoticons, Emoticon - East Asian style, Emoticon - Basic examples, Emoticon - Anime style, Emoticon - Basic examples, Emoticon - Complex examples, Emoticon - Graphic emoticons

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Anonymity is derived from the greek word ανωνυμία, meaning without a name or name-less. In colloquial use, the term typically refers to a person, and often means that the personal identity, or personally identifiable information of that person is not known. More strictly, and in reference to an arbitrary element (e.g. a human, an object, a computer), within a well-defined set (called the "anonymity set"), "anonymity" of that element refers to the property of that element of not being identifiable within this set. If it is not identifia ...

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Anonymity - Means of obtaining anonymity Anonymity - Anonymity and social situations Anonymity - Anonymity, commerce, and crime Anonymity - Issues facing the anonymous Anonymity - Referring to the anonymous Anonymity - Anonymity and the Internet Anonymity - Anonymity and politics

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2channel (2ちゃんねる, pronounced "ni-channeru", 2ch for short) is the largest Internet forum in the world.1 With over 10 million visitors every day (as of 2001), it is gaining significant influence in Japanese society, approaching that of traditional mass media such as TV, radio and magazines. 2channel - Overview. 2ch was opened in 1999 by Hiroyuki Nishimura, known simply as "Hiroyuki" (Including:

2channel - Overview 2channel - Culture 2channel - Densha Otoko 2channel - Terminology 2channel - Common abbreviations and phrases 2channel - English Offsprings 2channel - Masashi Tashiro 2channel - IRC@2ch 2channel - Special characters 2channel - Footnotes

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Anonymity is derived from the greek word ανωνυμία, meaning without a name or name-less. In colloquial use, the term typically refers to a person, and often means that the personal identity, or personally identifiable information of that person is not known. More strictly, and in reference to an arbitrary element (e.g. a human, an object, a computer), within a well-defined set (called the "anonymity set"), "anonymity" of that element refers to the property of that element of not being identifiable within this set. If it is not identifia ...

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Anonymity - Means of obtaining anonymity Anonymity - Anonymity and social situations Anonymity - Anonymity commerce and crime Anonymity - Issues facing the anonymous Anonymity - Referring to the anonymous Anonymity - Anonymity and the Internet Anonymity - Anonymity and politics

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Anti-Semitism (alternatively spelled antisemitism) is hostility toward or prejudice against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group, which can range from individual hatred to institutionalized, violent persecution. The highly explicit ideology of Adolf Hitler's Nazism was the most extreme example of this phenomenon. Anti-Semitism has historically taken different forms: Religious anti-Semitism, or anti-Judaism. Before the 19th century, most anti-Semitism was primarily religious in nature, based on Christian or ...

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Anti-Semitism - Etymology and usage
Anti-Semitism - Definitions of the term
Anti-Semitism - Earliest Antisemitism Anti-Semitism - Religious Antisemitism
Anti-Semitism - Anti-Judaism in the New Testament Anti-Semitism - Early Christianity Anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism in the Middle Ages Anti-Semitism - Disabilities and Restrictions Anti-Semitism - The Crusades Anti-Semitism - The expulsions from England France Germany and Spain Anti-Semitism - Anti-Judaism and the Reformation Anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism in 19th and 20th century Catholicism Anti-Semitism - Passion plays
Anti-Semitism - Racial anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism - The rise of racial anti-Semitism Anti-Semitism - Elites and the use of Anti-semitism Anti-Semitism - Dreyfus Affair Anti-Semitism - Pogroms Anti-Semitism - Anti-Jewish Legislation Anti-Semitism - The Holocaust and Holocaust Denial Anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories
Anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism and the Muslim world Anti-Semitism - Anti-semitism and specific countries
Anti-Semitism - United States Anti-Semitism - Europe Anti-Semitism - Asia
Anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism
Anti-Semitism - New anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism in the 21st century

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An Internet forum is a facility on the World Wide Web for holding discussions, or the web application software used to provide the facility. Web-based forums, which date from around 1995, perform a similar function as the dial-up bulletin boards and Internet newsgroups that were numerous in the 1980s and 1990s. A sense of virtual community often develops around forums that have regular users. Technology, computer games, and politics are popular areas for forum themes, but th ...

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Leet - Words. For full definitions please see Internet slang. Leet - Use of x0r and z0r. Note that the construction "-xor" or any variation thereof can be pronounced variously as "-ker", "-zor", or "-ksor" (the latter two being the way the majority of English speakers would pronounce it). Originally in this phrase "b0x0rz" refers not to "boxers" (i.e. underwear) but actually to "boxes" (in computer slang: computers, though boxen or b0 ...

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Leet, Leet - Overview, Leet - Common transliterations, Leet - Leet in other languages, Leet - Hong Kong Leet, Leet - Kusachu in Japanese, Leet - Cyrillation in Cyrillic languages, Leet - Greeklish in Greek, Leet - Leet slang, Leet - Words, Leet - Use of x0r and z0r, Leet - Grammar, Leet - Use of $, Leet - Kekeke, Leet - Frequent misspellings, Leet - Phrases, Leet - Use of -age, Leet - Over-exclamation, Leet - Pwn, Leet - Cans of Pwnage, Leet - The nubcake, Leet - Nubsauce, Leet - Leet items, Leet - Leet as a spoken language, Leet - Leet in videogaming, Leet - Sociological aspects, Leet - Examples of leetspeak

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Anti-Semitism - Anti-Judaism in the New Testament. Christian theology rooted in Roman Catholic theology was stimulated by the traditional reading of the New Testament, resulting in 'replacement theology' (or supersessionism), which taught that with the coming of Jesus a new covenant has rendered obsolete and has superseded the religion of Judaism. It was believed that the Jews, as a people, were responsible for the death of Jesus, and a number of early and influential Church works -- such as the dialogues of Justin Martyr, the homilies of John Chrysostom, and the testimoni ...

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Anti-Semitism, Anti-Semitism - Etymology and usage, Anti-Semitism - Definitions of the term, Anti-Semitism - Earliest Antisemitism, Anti-Semitism - Religious Antisemitism, Anti-Semitism - Anti-Judaism in the New Testament, Anti-Semitism - Early Christianity, Anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism in the Middle Ages, Anti-Semitism - Disabilities and Restrictions, Anti-Semitism - The Crusades, Anti-Semitism - The expulsions from England France Germany and Spain, Anti-Semitism - Anti-Judaism and the Reformation, Anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism in 19th and 20th century Catholicism, Anti-Semitism - Passion plays, Anti-Semitism - Racial anti-Semitism, Anti-Semitism - The rise of racial anti-Semitism, Anti-Semitism - Elites and the use of Anti-semitism, Anti-Semitism - Dreyfus Affair, Anti-Semitism - Pogroms, Anti-Semitism - Anti-Jewish Legislation, Anti-Semitism - The Holocaust and Holocaust Denial, Anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, Anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism and the Muslim world, Anti-Semitism - Anti-semitism and specific countries, Anti-Semitism - United States, Anti-Semitism - Europe, Anti-Semitism - Asia, Anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism - New anti-Semitism, Anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism in the 21st century

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Imageboards could be most simply described as a bulletin board focused on pictures instead of text posts; they share many of the same structures, including separate forums for separate topics, as well as similar audiences. However, imageboards are much more transitory with content—on some boards (especially high-traffic ones) the thread deletion time can be as little as 24 hours. The most popular English-language imageboards tend to revolve around Japanese culture such as CG artwork of anime. In Japan, where imageboards are many time ...

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Imageboard, Imageboard - Characteristics of imageboards, Imageboard - List of Imageboard software, Imageboard - Futaba Channel, Imageboard - 4chan, Imageboard - iichan, Imageboard - Other English boards, Imageboard - Dead Boards

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