The Nyūsu Sokuhō(Breaking News) (ニュース速報) board, also called NewSoku (ニュー速), NuSoku (ν速),¹⁾ or OldSoku (旧速), is the original 2channel news board whose history spans back to July 4, 1999. Despite their name, anything can be discussed as long as the opening post has a link in it.

As the story goes, 2channel was set up on May 30, 1999, and /news/ was made on July 4, 1999. It'd quickly became the 'center of 2channel' (2chの中心), since it used to be in the center of the board list, and people eventually found out that you could discuss anything as long as the opening post has a link. To combat this, a more formal /newsplus/ was made on October 9, 2001, relying on a system of verified reporters.

During this era, 2channel often conducted experiments on /news/. For March 11–14, 2004, /news/ had briefly shut down and sent users to /siberia/ in the meantime. Then on June 18, 2004, /news/ was given the 'Shitty Thread Repelling Feature' (くそスレ撃退機能, Kuso Sure Gekitai Kinou) that sent 'bad' threads to /news4vip/,²⁾ but it was eventually discontinued and /news4vip/ became its own thing.³⁾

In 2012, there was a massive stealth marketing incident after the animation studio, Shaft, allegedly had connections to some affiliate-funded summary blog.⁴⁾ This would spark mass paranoia and a migration over towards /poverty/ on January 9, 2012,⁵⁾ As a consequence, /news/ got spammed until the board settings would restrict activities to users with a 2channel BE account that wasn't going to script bomb the place.

• Newso-kun (ニューソ君, Nyūso-kun) and Nyu (ニュッ, Nyu) - The board's AA mascots. * Society's Bottoms (社会のボトムズ, Shakai no Botomuzu)
• Sōka Sōka (そうかそうか, Sōka Sōka) - A rhetorical “Is that so?” combining “Sōdearu ka?” (そうであるか) and “Sōna no ka?” (そうなのか). It's actually quite old and not that revolutionary.
• Typhoon Croquette (台風コロッケ, Taifū Korokke) - On August 28, 2001, a user posted about buying croquettes before 2001's 11th Typhoon hit.⁶⁾ Since then, buying croquettes became a tradition.
• Afghan Air Sumo (アフガン航空相撲, Afugan Kōkū Zumou) - Misreading of the 2002 “Afghanistan Aviation Minister Beat to Death” (アフガン航空相撲殺, Afugan Kōkū-shō Bokusatsu) headline.
• くぁｗせｄｒｆｔｇｙふじこｌｐ - A meaningless string that represents screaming.⁷⁾
• “For who?” - (誰得, Daretoku) - In essence, "Cui prodest?" or “Whom does it profit?” (誰が得するんだよ, dare ga tokusuru nda yo). Its first used was in 2005.⁸⁾
• Clannad is life (CLANNADは人生, Kuranado wa Jinsei) - A user that once mistook Clannad for an eroge, responded to “If it's not an eroge, what is it?” with “I don't know, life?”⁹⁾ It has since been spun off to silly things like “Fate is literature” (Fateは文学), “Touhou is religion” (東方は宗教), etc.

• Breaking News - The front page of 2channel's /news/ board.
• Breaking News Board on Niconico Encyclopedia
• Breaking News Board on 2channel's Wiki
• Breaking News Board on Japanese Wikipedia

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