![]() It was soon discovered that the users of the /b/ board had manipulated the results of the poll in Poole's favor. In April 2009, Poole was voted the most influential person of 2008 with 16,794,368 votes by an open Internet poll conducted by Time, beating out the likes of Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, and Oprah Winfrey. Poole established 4chan on October 1, 2003, using translated source code from 2chan, and sought to combine the anime culture on 2chan with the community on Something Awful. In 2009, The Washington Post reported that Poole had attended Virginia Commonwealth University for a few semesters before dropping out, and that he was living with his mother while trying to figure out how to monetize 4chan. In a MIT Technology Review piece entitled "Radical Opacity", Poole was described as being the antithesis of Mark Zuckerberg while Zuckerberg is outspoken towards his advocacy for a transparent Internet, Poole advocates for a more opaque Internet. Poole believes in anonymity on the Internet, and spoke at the TED2010 conference in Long Beach, California, about the value of the concept. Several journalists noted that the name "Christopher Poole" could be a pseudonym itself, including Lev Grossman of Time and Monica Hesse of The Washington Post. Until 2008, when his name was revealed in The Wall Street Journal, Poole took great lengths to protect his identity, going under the pseudonym of Robert in real life and as moot online. ![]() As a teenager, he was a member of the Something Awful forum, and frequented the anonymous Japanese textboard 2channel and its offshoot 2chan. Poole was born in 1988 and grew up in New York City. Poole was hired by Google in 2016 to work on the Google+ social network, and left the company in 2021. He also founded the online community Canvas, active from 2011 to 2014. He founded the anonymous English-language imageboard 4chan in October 2003, when he was still a teenager he served as the site's head administrator until January 2015. 1988 ), also known online as moot, is an American internet entrepreneur and developer. Virginia Commonwealth University (no degree)įounder and former head administrator of 4chanĬhristopher Poole (born c. Talk:4chan/Archive 6#Lot's of additions needed.New York City, New York, United States ![]() Talk:4chan/Archive 6#deviantART 2006 raid? Talk:4chan/Archive 6#Hal Turner "controversy"? Talk:4chan/Archive 5#Stop updating the front page image every other minute Stop updating the front page image every other minute Talk:4chan/Archive 5#I contest some lines and want to see references for those statements I contest some lines and want to see references for those statements ![]() Talk:4chan/Archive 5#Redirect from Pedobear Talk:4chan/Archive 5#/b/tards in other online areas Talk:4chan/Archive 4#Death of /b/ due to fame Talk:4chan/Archive 4#Downtime should be added to the article Talk:4chan/Archive 4#The Terror Threat Incident Talk:4chan/Archive 4#Side note about /b/ block Talk:4chan/Archive 4#7chan is relevent to 4chan's interests Talk:4chan/Archive 4#The meme articles on Wikiworld Talk:4chan/Archive 3#References and Sources Talk:4chan/Archive 3#Conflicts With Other Boards? Talk:4chan/Archive 2#Copyvio from another wiki Talk:4chan/Archive 2#"/b/ is the internet's asshole" Talk:4chan/Archive 2#Copypasta isn't recent Talk:4chan/Archive 2#STOP REMOVING CONTENT Talk:4chan/Archive 2#Elaborate on boards? Talk:4chan/Archive 2#ATTENTION NEWGROUNDERS Talk:4chan/Archive 2#Japanese translation of 4chan link warning necessary? Japanese translation of 4chan link warning necessary? Talk:4chan/Archive 2#New section: "Notable Acheivements"? Talk:4chan/Archive 2#Memes back into the article Talk:4chan/Archive 2#copyright violations Talk:4chan/Archive 2#I WAS BORN INTO A WORLD. Talk:4chan/Archive 2#Things I'd like to know about Talk:4chan/Archive 2#/b/ Forced Anonymous Talk:4chan/Archive 2#January 10th situation Talk:4chan/Archive 2#Robert Bopkins != moot Talk:4chan/Archive 1#Cleanup request questions/discussion Talk:4chan/Archive 1#Looks like it's dead again Talk:4chan/Archive 1#Memes/Popular 4chan culture This article was last edited by Legobot ( talk | contribs) 47 days ago. It matches the following masks: Talk:4chan/Archive, Talk:4chan. Report generated based on a request from Talk:4chan.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |