For instance, on December 28, 2010, 4chan and other websites went down due to such an attack, following which Poole said on his blog, 'We now join the ranks of MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, et al.-an exclusive club!' History Ĥchan has been the target of occasional denial of service attacks.
The site was launched as on October 1, 2003, by Christopher Poole, a then-15-year-old student from New York City using the online handle 'moot'.
Poole had been a regular participant on Something Awful's subforum 'Anime Death Tentacle Rape Whorehouse' (ADTRW), where many users were familiar with the Japanese imageboard format and Futaba Channel ('').
