"2003" as the future (when was this made?) 1. high speed networks => video phone 2. remote for appliances 3. download music 4. used to purchase at vending machines
The forum's origins trace back to a college apartment in Arkansas, where founder Hiroyuki Nishimura was a student in May 1999
2.5 million posts a day and about 800 active boards split into thousands of threads, 2-channel is the biggest BBS in the world
On occasion, the 2-channel community behaves like a mob, turning on members who transgress with massive amounts of hate mail, the revelation of private information and stalkers monitoring their homes 24/7.
Vote rigging: When comedian Masashi Tashiro was nominated for Time magazine's Person of the Year in 2001, 2-channelers hacked the voting system and placed multiple votes that propelled him to the No. 1 position over Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush, and crashed Time.com's server. Tashiro -- who is infamous for his blatant sexual harassment and belligerent public behavior -- was removed from the list.
The writing system in Japanese is one way to indicate the Eastern influence and Western influence in the country. Borrowed words from Chinese, and romanization make the system more flourishing in culture contents. The article also gives examples of how the system works.