Editing 2channel (section)

=== Predecessors ===
[[Textboard]]s like 2channel were rooted in two earlier technologies: [[Modem|dial-in]] [[Bulletin board system|bulletin boards]], known in Japan as {{Nihongo|grass roots bulletin boards|草の根BBS}},<ref name="Kaigo-2007" /> and [[Usenet]].<ref name="Stryker-2011">{{Cite book |last=Stryker |first=Cole |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y3QjCQAAQBAJ |title=Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web |date=2011 |publisher=The Overlook Press |isbn=9781590207383 |location=New York |pages=133–134 |quote=2channel was based on a previous text board called Ayashii World, the first big anonymous text board in Japan... Ayashii World, like many anonymous chan boards, experienced so much downtime that its owner began to receive death threats, prompting him to shut down the board in 1998.}}</ref> 2channel has two predecessors: Ayashii World created in 1996 by Shiba Masayuki,<ref name="Stryker-2011" /> and {{Nihongo|Amezou|あめぞう}},<ref name="Tanahashi-2007" /> created in 1997. Ayashii World was the first large anonymous web bulletin board in Japan, while Amezou originated the more familiar "textboard" concept wherein threads are displayed chronologically, with new comments bumping old threads to the top, rather than in a branching tree.<ref name="Stryker-2011" /><ref name="Tanahashi-2007">{{Cite journal |last=Tanahashi |first=Gō |date=2007-12-01 |title=イマジナリー・コミュニケーションI ~顧客間インタラクションと2 ちゃんねる~ |trans-title=Imaginary Communication I ~Customer interaction and 2channel~ |url=https://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/120005827908 |journal=Nara Sangyo University Journal of Industrial Economics |language=ja |publisher=[[Nara Sangyo University]] |volume=22 |issue=3 |pages=141–160 |oclc=1059584274 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211027/https://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/120005827908 |archive-date=2021-10-27 |via=CiNii}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Ayashii World closed in 1998, leading most of its former users to go to Amezou;<ref name="Stryker-2011" /> Nishimura advertised 2channel in a post on Amezou in May 1999, calling it "Amezou's second channel".<ref name="Tanahashi-2007" /> From June, Amezou became increasingly unable to handle the load on its servers,<ref name="Tanahashi-2007" /><ref name="Barubora-2005" />{{Rp|260}} until its host shut it down after threats against Amezou's anonymous owner which contained his [[Doxing|dox]] were posted on it.<ref name="Stryker-2011" /><ref name="Barubora-2005" />{{Rp|260}}