World4ch was 4chan's text-focused bulletin boards that ran from 2004¹⁾ to 2014.²⁾ It was an otherwise unremarkable project that was dropped since they weren't very active, and the entire thing was redundant as people were more adjusted to holding discussions on imageboards instead.

In 2004, Poole attempted to set up “0ch”,³⁾⁴⁾ eventually managed to set up two boards,⁵⁾ then discarded it out of frustration.⁶⁾ From there, “Shii” found a “2ch BBS” script, translated it,⁷⁾ and named it “Shiichan”, so Poole adopted this script.⁸⁾ During this era, these boards were called the 'discussion boards', and several news posts would mention the “Suggestions” (/sug/) board as a place to send 4chan feedback.^{9)10)11)12)13)14)}

During the 2004 shutdown, it's implied that the boards were also taken offline, but the old data was eventually restored.¹⁵⁾ At some point, “Shii” allegedly linked 4-ch, but this was removed,¹⁶⁾ then “Shii” silently left and “MrVacBob” would be in charge of maintaining its code. Several years would pass before Poole decided that it was time to retire the project on April 7, 2014.¹⁷⁾

• The boards used to be hosted on “world4ch.org”, before moving to “dis.4chan.org” in 2006.¹⁸⁾
• World4ch was mostly tucked away in 4chan's front page and frames view, so you could only find these boards though their respective imageboard counterpart's board subtitle.
• Much of the /news4vip/-dominated era of 2channel would inspire 4chan to house their own /vip/ board and code references to the short-lived “VIP QUALITY” catchphrase. The eesults were mixed.
  • Honestly, the only notable /vip/ thread was a thread where users spammed “JEWS” endlessly.
  • 4chan would eventually remake their /vip/ board on October 4, 2016,¹⁹⁾ but this /vip/ was actually an imageboard and 'VIP' in the sense that you needed a 4chan Pass to make a post.
• The most notable boards were /vip/ and /prog/, though their current whereabouts are kinda scattered.
• On /anime/, there was an 'Anime Appreciation Thread'. I'm not sure what happened to them.

• World2ch - A precursor to World4ch, though it only inspired World4ch in name only.
• 2ch Embassy (World8ch) - A successor to World4ch, established by 8chan and hosted on 2channel.

• World4ch Archive - An archive of World4ch, which you can technically post on.
  • World4search - Search tool. You might need to fix the URLs to get the thread.