• driving_crooner
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    16 hours ago

    Did 4chan had usernames and so? Wasn’t it’s deal that ir was anonymous?

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      15 hours ago

      Some of the boards use a system called tripcodes, which are essentially a username and password in one that are used when writing individual posts. It allows people to prove that they’re the same person across multiple posts, without anything as identifying as a user profile attached.

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        6 hours ago

        I always tough that they were cookie-generated, like you wnter the cookie assign a code for you that eventually go off. Pretty lame them pretending to not have user names while doing it.