Culture & Terminology
Posting conventions, terminology, and the open-source software that powers imageboards.
99chan and the Chan Graveyard
Overview of the dozens of small, short-lived imageboards that appeared and vanished during the 2000s and 2010s.
Greentext
Imageboard posting convention in which lines beginning with '>' are rendered in green and used to quote, narrate, or list events.
Imageboard Software
Survey of the open-source scripts that have powered most imageboards since 2001: Futallaby, Wakaba, Kusaba, vichan, lynxchan.
Tripcodes & Anonymity
How imageboards combine total default anonymity with optional persistent pseudonyms via tripcodes.