2ch

:This article is about the Japanese forum. See 2CH for the Sydney radio station.

English Offsprings

There have been some attempts by various internet communities to form their own, more English or internationally-oriented message boards in the style and tradition of 2ch. The first and most notable has been the now defunct world2ch, administered by Taichirou Kosugi ("RIR7") and abandoned in late 2003. Two boards have been put up to replace world2ch, but neither has become anywhere as popular.

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• 4-ch, historically following world2ch, is an English website with discussion boards for English speakers and also contains a board where Japanese 2ch users can talk in Japanese.
• 4chan, an English website based largely around Japanese content, now also has anonymous message boards similar to 2ch: world4ch.