4chan Archives Pre-2008?

Question

hey, I've been recently going down a rabbit hole in terms of 4chan history. I am wondering if there are any archives of 4chan, regardless of image availability, out there.Thanks!

vitovito · Accepted Answer

https://archive.org/details/4chan_threads_archive_10_billion"This is a text-only compilation of 4chan threads, primarily from the years 2006-2008. The total unique threads in this collection is roughly 10 million."

whateveracct · Answer

It seems like it wouldn't be hard to train a model on this era of 4chan and create a simulacrum. Posts would happen at a certain frequency with all the users being simulated. I wonder if you could even allow user posts and have the model reply in a realistic way (bullying and all)?

ofslidingfeet · Answer

Soon to be a question asked about the entire internet pre-2019.

beastoftheweast · Answer

https://old.sage.moe

protocolture · Answer

sup/tg/ might go back that far, just for /tg/

4chan Archives Pre-2008?

hey, I've been recently going down a rabbit hole in terms of 4chan history. I am wondering if there are any archives of 4chan, regardless of image availability, out there.
Thanks!

https://archive.org/details/4chan_threads_archive_10_billion
"This is a text-only compilation of 4chan threads, primarily from the years 2006-2008. The total unique threads in this collection is roughly 10 million."

It seems like it wouldn't be hard to train a model on this era of 4chan and create a simulacrum. Posts would happen at a certain frequency with all the users being simulated. I wonder if you could even allow user posts and have the model reply in a realistic way (bullying and all)?

Soon to be a question asked about the entire internet pre-2019.

https://old.sage.moe

sup/tg/ might go back that far, just for /tg/