4chan: Beyond one billion
While I no longer visit 4chan regularly, I love its extensive influence on human society.<p>* lolcats<p>* rage comics<p>* anonymous<p>* a lot of the 1% movement<p>* getting random people in jail because they think animal cruelty is funny<p>* making Moot TIME's person of the year and getting him a TED talk -> <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_m00t_poole_the_case_for_anonymity_online.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_m00t_poole_the_case_for...</a><p>While most of what goes on there hinges somewhere between vile and horrible. 4chan has a lot of good in it, plenty of times there can be surprisingly good and high quality debates.<p>And come on, it's where all the memes are born. That's <i>profound</i>. What other startup can claim to be such a big influence on western society?<p>PS: 4chan has also invented a clever sorting algorithm - <a href="http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1295544154" rel="nofollow">http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1295544154</a><p>PPS: sometimes they even manage to count to 10. I think the record was 100.<p>edit: when I say meme, I mean "A meme ( /ˈmiːm/; meem)[1] is "an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture."[2] A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena." ... I <i>don't</i> mean, "funny picture".<p>A lot of responders misunderstood this, I think.