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2channel (2ch.net), founded in 1999, was one of Japan's largest anonymous message boards. After a dispute over its control in 2014, it was renamed "5channel" (5ch.net) in 2017, and the 2ch.net of that time no longer exists. The logs of these three threads were also lost from the web during the 2010s; today only parts of them survive in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

This site is built from valuable DAT files of the threads obtained and preserved in the 2010s — the raw text logs the board served to dedicated 2channel reader apps, before being formatted into HTML. The original DAT files can be downloaded below (Shift_JIS encoding, unmodified).

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Full text for AI tools

All posts are also available as a single Markdown text (UTF-8) that AI chat tools can read easily. The original posts are enclosed in ~~~ blocks, separate from the editorial notes.