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[_] [L] Anon 1626537 Marked for deletion (old).
>> [_] Anon 1626620 >anonymous started as an imageboard 2channel is a BBS board. Futaba, the imageboard was made during a particularly long downtime of 2channel.
>> [_] Anon 1626660 To be Anon is to be free. The idea of Anon is to say your message without an identity. Nothing counts except only exactly what you write in each post. For example, a guy might be called brilliant in one post then later in the thread he is called a twat. But if people knew he was the same person that said the previous brilliant post he might not be called a twat. Somehow his previous message reduced the idiocy of his latest message. The Anon idea prevents that. Sadly moot has ruined the basics of this idea on /b/ since he has made IDs for each person posted. It's good that you can now tell samefags apart, but it threatens the Anon idea a bit. Not too much though, since you often don't look at the ID or remember what ID has said what previously in the thread.
>> [_] Anon 1626667 >># Tripcodes and names are to prevent an inherent fault in the Anon system; anyone can pretend to be anyone else. The people using them to gain an identity are just attention whores.
>> [_] Anon 1626674 >># but you can still sage and remain completely anon so you can still pretend to be whoever
>> [_] Anon 1626677 >># Anon has long since transcended the concept of "posts" and isolated to boards, it's just where you see it most clearly, but it's everywhere. Anon is a concept; a nameless, disorganized group(s) which comprises anyone and is an extension of the group's common interests and will. Hence the "Anonymous has always existed"; probably the only interesting part of this flash.
>> [_] Anon 1626679 stopped watching when he brought up memes.. ugh shoot me
>> [_] Anon 1626711 His hands... Jesus... Someone make him stop with the hands business...