About

pr0gramm.com is a large german imageboard online community, founded 2007.

Registered users of the website can upload pictures, videos and WebM-files, as well as rating, tagging and commenting the uploads of others.

Each File has tags, who mostly serve for categorisation. Positive and Negative ratings lead, for the corresponding user, to a win or loss of the internal reputation, called Benis.

The Site is financed through advertisements, as well as paid Premiumaccounts, called Pr0mium internally. Pr0gramm.Com is after Similarweb in the ranking of most visited sites of germany at place 98, worldwide ranking at place 1963 (May 2020)^[1]

In order to rate, comment, see comments, tag and view content of the categories NSFP, NSFW, NSFL, an account is required. Accounts can either be gotten by invitation of an existing user, or by the purchase of Pr0mium. Until the 14th November 2014 it was possible to create accounts for free.
This was stopped via a change, which caused, until the introduction of Pr0mium, account creation to be invite-only.^[2]

Origin

Retracable is the first added entry by the founder cha0s, who after the imageboards internal data was posted at 23. January 2007.^[3] At that time the service consisted of two components, the graphical representation, accessible via the domain pr0gramm.com and the IRC bot @pr0gramm on QuakeNet. This bot could be moved to its own channel by private message and then added every link to an accepted file mentioned in the IR chat to its own directory, which was visible on the website.

The IRC network provider QuakeNet, however, imposes a strict ban on pornographic content in its network ^[4], which led to the temporary blocking of the #pr0gramm channel ^[5] As a result, pr0gramm was conceptually converted to a pure Internet service, which accepts entries directly via the web interface.

Sources

^[1] Similar-Web

^[2] Invites are closed

^[3] First Post

^[4] QuakeNet Rules

^[5] Note about the Channel being temporarily closed by Quake Net