Estimated date of creation: April 20th, 2025
Status: Dead 🔴
This is something that used to exist but which may not exist anymore. I have been using 4chan since 2009, and there are certain downsides that come from that, such as having part of my identity unfortunately tangled up with people’s negative perception of /r9k/, /b/, /pol/, etc. That is, I like a lot of the 4channer YouTubers like Luke Smith, I get the culture through and through, including all of the conspiracy theories, and even when I have a girlfriend or am going through a normie streak, my habit of browsing 4chan kind of programs me to think like the incels and losers on there do. Kind of bad.
Anyways, I do find it the be the funniest website on the internet, and I like it a lot.
When 4chan was hacked in 2025 and went down for 2 weeks, I had been browsing 4chan like 4 hours a day for the previous year. Kind of a band aid ripping off moment. But it actually got me off of it. Shows the power of cold turkey fasting. But those two weeks were painful.
Anyways, during that time, I checked out some of the altchans, but I also tried to make my own chan, “Maochan”. I followed Denshi’s “Comfy Guide to Installing Vichan”, which is a YouTube video that comes with a webpage guide, and although his installation guide doesn’t quite work anymore, I was able to get my Vichan site to work somehow anyways.
And that, I believe, is the first NGINX server I have ever run? And that was the moment that I finally figured out how HTTP servers work. It just sits there, waits for requests on a port to the IP, and will send a page through the HTTP protocols if everything is logically sound. I spent like 6 months in 2023 trying to understand how the fuck I could get a backend set up for an HTML page. And it made no sense to me. It wasn’t until 2025 and the 4chan hack that it clicked for me.
Actually, I credit the 4chan hack with getting me back into coding. And for finally teaching me full stack. I’m kind of glad it happened, in a way. I also finally learned how to use Linux, which I needed to do to host my Vichan imageboard.
I used Linode VPS as the Linux server for this, and the reason I always use Debian Linux now seems to stem from its use in this tutorial.
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