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NTTEC
N.T. Technology, Inc. (NTTEC) is the Statesian web hosting company that was founded by Jim Watkins as a front for a pornography website, before pivoting to mature content web hosting. Historically, the company is mostly known for its role in 2channel and 8chan.1)2)
Summary
At some point, Nishimura and Watkins had a deal where NTTEC would handle processing for the '2ch Viewer' service,3) then it got hacked in 20134)5)6) and Watkins ended up seizing 2channel in 20147)8) after Nishimura hesitated to restore the service.9) Soon after, NTTEC partnered with 8chan,10)11) since Brennan mistook him as 2channel's founder,12) and took control of 8chan13)14) after lying about their finances.15)16)
Notable employees
Jim Watkins
James Arthur Watkins (born November 20, 1963), also known as Grape Ape or Yoga Pig, is the Statesian businessman from Dayton, Washington17) who was raised on a farm in Mukilteo, graduated from Mariner High School,18) and joined the United States Army in 1982, as a helicopter mechanic before he was moved to recruiter and became sergeant first class (E-7) by 1994.19)20)21)
During his military career, Watkins met the Korean woman, Ton Sun, who birthed Ron Watkins in 1987. After attending a tech school in Virginia, he left the military in the late 1990s to focus on the 'Asian Bikini Bar' that started in 199722) whose company would assume a less conspicuous name.23)24) The legality of the website's content has been up for debate, reportedly housing child pornography filmed in the Philippines.25)26)
From there, Watkins began several business ventures in the United States,27) Japan,28) and the Philippines, even using his wife's name29)30)31)32) before they divorced.33) In 2001, he married a Filipino woman, Liziel Orje,34) but didn't move to the Philippines until 2004,35) and eventually became a full-time resident in 2007.36) In 2021, the Philippine government declared him an 'undesirable alien', so he fled.37)
Ron Watkins
Ronald Arthur Watkins (born April 18, 1987),41)42) also known as Codemonkey, Kormiku, or Latermuse, was the Korean-Statesian son of Jim Watkins and Ton Sun Watkins.43) According to his Reddit account, he browsed 4chan's /b/ board,44)45) somehow had /r/2channel moderator permissions, had hobbies (e.g. martial arts, music, programming,46) translating,47)48)49) etc.), and once had the MBTI type of INTP.50)51)
At some point, he would serve as the administrator of 2channel and 8chan, allegedly retired52) and went into conservative politics (e.g. disputing the 2020 election,53)54)55) encouraging the January 6 attack,56)57) losing the AZ-2 election,58)59) etc.), then returned to his role at 8kun60) to develop their AI board.61) They've since started using cryptocurrency lingo, which is to say, a whole lot of nothing.62)
Notes
External links
- N.T. Technology, Inc. - The official website for N.T. Technology, Inc.
- @xerxeswatkins → @thejimwatkins on Twitter - Jim Watkins's current account.
- @jim_watkins on Telegram
- @codemonkeyz on Twitter - Ron Watkins's current account.
- Pacific Internet Exchange, LLC [Archive] - The archived page for Pacific Internet Exchange, LLC.
- Jim Watkins and Ron Watkins on Wikipedia