A textboard is a simple kind of Internet forum; most textboards require neither registration nor entry of a screen name.[1] Textboards, like imageboards, were invented in Japan, but they remain relatively unknown outside it, in contrast to imageboards (such as 4chan).
One of the key differences between textboards and traditional forums is that textboards allow users to post without registration, and often encourage anonymous discussion.[2] Hiroyuki Nishimura, the founder of 2channel, says that the philosophy behind anonymous posting is that "all information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work".[3] Many textboards support a form of pseudo-registration by allowing users to use tripcodes, although users tend to post anonymously.
Textboards tend to be much simpler than traditional forums. While forums software such as phpBB or vBulletin supports image or other media embedding, private messaging, polls, and various other features, textboards allow only the posting of text.
- Perfect Dark is a Japanese peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) application that contains textboards.
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- ^ Furukawa, Hideki,"Q&A With the Founder of Channel 2" Archived January 9, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, The Online Journalism Review, August 22, 2008
- ^ "Posts per day". 2channel. Archived from the original on 2013-05-02. Retrieved 2011-10-18.