While searching for pieces of information about possible old memes and events that happened on 4chan (some of which I'm going to submit soon), I stumbled upon a very interesting chronological history of everything related to 4chan and BBS boards in general.
This is a thorough list involving major evolutions, changes, famous figures on the boards, ddos attacks, downtimes and whatnot, all of which have been collected by various anonymous users over the span of a decade.
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