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Christopher Poole (* 1988 in New York City) ist ein US-amerikanischer Programmierer und Unternehmer. Im Jahr 2003 gründete er, damals noch anonym, mit 4chan eine der seitdem meistbesuchten Seiten des Internets.
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ReadWrite:What’s it like to be a founder and a coder at the same time? Chris Poole:Actually, I would say I don’t even fall into that bucket. I was probably a better programmer as a teenager than I am today. Which is kind of like the inverse of I guess what’s normally the case. I don’t count programming as one of my talents. So I spent a number of y...
RW: So why did you keep it on anonymous? Why didn’t you tell anyone? CP: It was a privacy and safety thing. I was young and wasn’t even 18. The site had some, even in the early stages, inappropriate content like the pornography would be posted to it and choice language. I just didn’t think it would be appropriate if others found out about it. Later...
RW:4chan has become a springboard for many memes. Did you ever imagine that it would be so influential? CP:No I didn’t imagine it. But I think that it makes sense [because] the two things that really define 4chan are its anonymity and the ephemerality of its content. So the anonymity I’ve advocated in the past for allowing people to share using a p...
RW:Let’s touch again on the anonymous thing. You’ve been a large proponent of maintaining anonymity online, and even the hacker group Anonymous was formed on 4chan. Is there a message that you want to give people regarding Internet privacy, especially now with the NSA and big Internet companies coming under fire for user privacy? CP:Yeah, I’ve alwa...
Learn how Christopher Poole, also known as "moot", founded 4chan, one of the Web's best-known meme-launchers and online communities, when he was 15. Read about his journey from coding in secret to managing a global platform and other projects.
5. Apr. 2024 · In September 2015, he officially passed the reins of 4chan to Hiroyuki Nishimura, the founder of 2chan. His other initiatives namely, Canvas and DrawQuest which he had started in 2010 and 2013 respectively, were also shut down in 2014. In 2016, Poole started working for Google.
Learn about Christopher "moot" Poole, the creator of 4chan, an anonymous imageboard that spawned many Internet memes and controversies. Watch his TED talk on the case for anonymity online and his role in shaping the web's subculture.
22. Apr. 2021 · Chris Poole, who founded controversial online community 4chan before joining Google in 2016, has left the search giant after jumping among several groups within the company, CNBC has...
Comedy and music video director, writer and editor in London.
Christopher Poole (born c. 1988), known online as moot, is an American Internet entrepreneur. He was born in New York City. He is best known for founding the anonymous English-language imageboard 4chan in October 2003. He served as the site's head administrator for more than 11 years before stepping down in January 2015.
