The popular and controversial English-language <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imageboard" id="mwAaA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Imageboard">imageboard</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan" id="mwAaE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="4chan">4chan</a> is launched.<sup about="#mwt116" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-20"}}' id="cite_ref-20" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./October_1#cite_note-20" id="mwAaI" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 20;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAaM">[20]</span></a></sup>
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