1ch.tv, formally 1channel TV (いっチャンネルティーヴィー, Itchanneru Tīvī), was a Japanese 'human-friendly' bulletin board that was set up on October 1, 2001, as Amezou's successor and 2channel's rival. The project was quickly abandoned, but somehow managed to last until May 2010.

“Hey, don't eat two beef bowls! Pay another 1000 yen! Idiot!”
– Kazuhiko Nishi¹⁾²⁾³⁾

During the 1990s, the Japanese publishing company ASCII Corporation had been accumulating debt until CSK Holdings bought 45% of the company's shares in 1997, hoping that they would be a useful asset for Sega.⁴⁾ For 2001, CSK Holdings founder Isao Okawa died on March 16, 2001,⁵⁾ then ASCII Corporation co-founder Kazuhiko Nishi stepped down as the company was accumulating debt again.⁶⁾⁷⁾

For some reason, Nishi went egosurfing, found a 2channel thread on the news around July 10, 2001, and argued with the thread⁸⁾ before denouncing 2channel as 'toilet graffiti' (便所の落書き).⁹⁾ Nishi proceeded to invite everyone to the Shibuya headquarters on August 11, 2011, where he recalled the MSX's history¹⁰⁾ before scolding Hiroyuki Nishimura for getting a second beef bowl.^11)12)13)14)

“Do you use these kinds of expressions¹⁵⁾ on a daily basis? We are not your slaves or subordinates.”
– Kōji “Nenkin” Shimizu¹⁶⁾

Nishi would announce a journalism-oriented rival to 2channel with registration fees, promises of rewards, and “Amezou” for added legitimacy.¹⁷⁾¹⁸⁾ The website launched at “1ch.tv” on October 5, 2001, but it was quickly put in read-only mode until October 14, 2001 due to several exploits.¹⁹⁾ When it reopened, confusion about the 'deletion criteria' led to head administrator, Kōji “Nenkin” Shimizu,²⁰⁾ leaving a brash statement.²¹⁾

The statement was quickly deleted, then “STAFF@NTW” commented on it, which then led to “STAFF@NTW” having his capcode revoked and board shut down.²²⁾ In response, a string of voluntary resignations would follow,²³⁾²⁴⁾ which then caused “1ch.tv” to develop a heavy anti-2channel slant. During this, Nishi likely bailed, presumably busy with the Unison Capital deal,²⁵⁾ and “Amezou” sorta vanished.²⁶⁾

In the end, 1ch.tv was left with former Amezou staff, Kōji Shimuzu and Iota Fujimi,²⁷⁾ along with some college student named Kensuke Furukawa. Then on December 3, 2001, the website became inaccessible, then users found out you could actually download the entire website, meaning that IPs were leaked²⁸⁾ and the staff board was readable. A brief Flash animation, Ioter Wall, was made with what they could find.

“It wasn't me who made it.”
– Kazuhiko Nishi²⁹⁾

Afterwards, 1ch.tv moved servers on February 27, 2002, saw more resignations,³⁰⁾ then decided to switch to PHP around July 11, 2002. To make the Amezou connection clear, “1ch.tv” migrates to “amezo.jp” in 2005, then Nishi allegedly denies making “1ch.tv” in 2006.³¹⁾ Surprisingly, the website still had activity in 2009,³²⁾ but it eventually died sometime between March 28, 2010³³⁾ and May 2010.

Ioter Wall is a short MAD Flash animation that was shared to 2channel around December 8, 2001. It's a very simple animation that borrows the Beatmania IIDX song, "Outer Wall" by Shinji Hosoe, and uses leaked audio of Iota Fujimi. Within hours, the animation has since been commemorated as the default name of /net/, which continues to be “Nameless @ GoGoGoGo!” (名無しさん＠ゴーゴーゴーゴー!).

• At the time, tripcodes were 8-characters long and '#ｋａｍｉ would bring ◆AhoNiShI, which can be read as 'aho nishi' (アホ西, lit. “stupid nishi”), so users joked that God was calling Nishi an idiot. This no longer works as tripcodes are now 10-characters long, bringing you ◆yGAhoNiShI.

• The History of '1ch' That Doesn't Appear in Textbooks on Chiyu 12-sai - Main resource on 1ch.tv, which is actually a response to a much larger textbook on the Japanese internet.³⁴⁾
• 1ch.tv on Niconico Encyclopedia
• 1ch.tv on Japanese Wikipedia

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