711chan
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711chan
711chan was a 'chaotic' bulletin board, founded by “jewlion” and “plasma”, that roughly ran from 20071) to 2012. The website is mostly known for its involvement with Project Chanology, which caused an internal strife over what Anonymous is supposed to be in the first place.
History
2007–2012
On November 20, 2007,2) “jewlion” and “plasma” set up 711chan at “711chan.org” using Kusaba X, allegedly because 7chan had a furry moderator.3) However, 711chan actually benefited from 420chan's downtime,4) which led to 711chan housing an “Invasion” (/i/) refuge,5) then it came under fire for a dedicated Scientology board at “CoS” (/xenu/) which caused the 420chan–Enturbulation split,6) so that was deleted.7)
In 2008, they had PayPal problems8) and shut down to fund a new server9) in 16 days.10) In 2009, a VPD detective working with Interpol had asked 711chan to remove footage of a cat drowning,11) so they just slapped it on the front page to 4chan's disdain,12) then the staff joined Twitter.13) There wasn't much else after that, aside from Kusaba X exploits, so 711chan shut down by Spring 2012.14)
2014–2015
Two years later, 314chan founder “parley” offered to host 711chan,15) so the website just came back online at the original “711chan.org” domain with a Kusaba X fork.16) The website's front page would see a redesign on November 6, 2014,17) then 711chan died again in late 2015 and it became a splash page for their IRC channel. Eventually, 7-Eleven bought the domain around 2020, which marked the end of 711chan.
List of Boards
Unofficial successor
On December 10, 2022, 711chan was revived by “lolwut” and “Comatoast” at the “711chan.net” domain using the ancient Kusaba X script. The website briefly closed from October 24, 202418) to March 28, 2025,19) then “bigbully” resigned on April 15, 2025, leaving it to “angryspessmarine”, “Longfag”, and “lolwut”.20) This iteration is still alive, but it's very slow and occasionally gets raided.
Notes
- The original 711chan staff had listed their Twitter handles in 2009, which was back when the platform wasn't as serious. You can still find the accounts for "Slowbro", "Internets", and "Levo".21)
- 711chan has notably dealt with “Russian porn spammers” in 2010,22) which might affirm the theory that the spam for alleged child pornography supposedly comes from remote areas of Russia.
See also
External links
- 711chan [Archive] - The front page of the first 711chan, archived January 27, 2012.
- 711chan [Archive] - The front page of the second 711chan, archived October 9, 2015.
- 711chan.net (711chan.wtf) - The front page of the third 711chan. Tor is available.
1)
, 2)
"www.711chan.org SHIT WE FUCKIN SUCK SO HELP US OUT <3 4chan" (November 20, 2007). 4chan /b/.
3)
"Y HALO THAR" (November 23, 2007). 711chan.
4)
"http://711chan.org/weed/ REPORT HERE FAGHATS. TEMP HOME FOR /weed/ TIL KIRT FIXES SHIT." (November 26, 2007). 711chan.
5)
"New Boards (And fixed shit)" (November 24, 2007). 711chan.
6)
The Project Chanology event became controversial because there was a philosophical split on whether the collective should 'avoid attention whoring altogether' or 'use this power for good'. The latter would form the 'Why We Protest Forums' at “Enturbulation.org” and encouraged 'IRL trolling' (i.e. activism and protests).
8)
"GODDAMMIT" (April 13, 2008). 711chan.
9)
"he's dead, jim!" (June 16, 2008). 711chan.
10)
"ZERO HOUR" (July 2, 2008). 711chan.
11)
"wat happan" (June 5, 2009). 711chan.
14)
The last known archive was on January 26, 2012, meaning that it died sometime before June 18, 2012. I can't extract exact dates because the history technically continues.
15)
"yo @slowbrohime I'll host 711chan if you can point the dns" (March 31, 2014). Twitter.
16)
"oh fuck." (March 31, 2014). 711chan.
17)
"Code Modernization" (November 6, 2014). 711chan.
18)
"711chan is read-only :^(" (October 24, 2024). 711chan /711/.
19)
"Grand Re-Opening" (March 28, 2025). 711chan.
20)
"Major changes to 711chan" (April 15, 2025). 711chan.
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