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| 9channel | |
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| Foundation | March 14, 2005 |
| Closure | December 22, 2017 |
| Creator | Kuz |
| Owner | Kuz |
| Major Boards | /ap/, /a/ |
| Total posts | Unknown (claimed 500,000+ users) |
| Website | Devyach.net (2021 - 2023) |
9ch (Russian: Де́вяч / Dë́väč), also known as 9channel, 9ch8br, Devyach, or (incorrectly) 9chan, was a Russian imageboard that Kuz claims to have founded on March 14, 2005. It was said to be kuz's first ever website and the catalyst to his many later creations.
Originally 9channel had no domain, just a port on Kuz's IP address. About a year later it was moved to TOR, and eventually made available to the clearweb. The site's alleged size and contents are a controversial and disputed topic. kuz purports it was both the first and largest Russian textboard, which the front page of its successor website, Devyach.net, also said. Critics of kuz suggest the site was much smaller, or did not even exist. It's also widely believed that the site was a large CP hotbed, although kuz says the most illegal thing was pirated movies. The site had a huge problem with so called "crime announcements", and many of the site's boards and phrases were named with references to russian criminal/gang slang (e.g. pero, meaning literally "feather", but is a slang for a concealed knife).
According to Kuz, 9channel started as a simple file-sharing site. Then DCP joined in 2006 and fixed everything. The site moved from TOR to clearnet, got boards, and became a "hotbed of criminal activity."
Kuz claims 9channel had 500,000 users by 2017.
The site was shut down in 2017 for "legal reasons."
History
[edit | edit source]Take all information listed here with a grain of salt.
Pre-9ch
[edit | edit source]In the early to mid 2000s, kuz spent most of his time browsing random internet forums, teaching himself English, and getting into trouble. In 2002, he was 14 years old, and at this age he purchased himself a computer. Throughout his mid-teens in 2003 and 2004, he would regularly visit 2chan.net, though he spoke nearly no Japanese.
Despite various rumors, kuz never frequented SomethingAwful as much as moot did, though he did visit there on several occasions. On October 5th, 3 days after 4chan was created, kuz visited the site. He was inspired by the design. He and moot became regular contacts around this time. It's worth noting that kuz and moot were born within 3 months of each other. Through 2003 and 2004, kuz taught himself PHP and basic HTML/CSS.
Early 9ch
[edit | edit source]On March 14th, 2005, a late spring evening, kuz created 9ch8br, short for 9channels8birds, yet another runet meme. The site was later just shorted to "9ch" or "9channel" as the users liked to call it. It was incredibly basic in terms of looks, with a dark blue background, white text, and minimal UI. This was almost certainly inspired by another Japanese textboard called Ayashii Warudo (Strange World). The site was almost exclusively used for sharing pornography, pirated anime, and other "controversial" content.
In late 2005, it likely had under 1,000 daily active users. The site had no textboards, no imageboards, just a single screen with a file uploading button and a menu for viewing and selecting files below. This board was called /ap/ or "apex" (another runet meme?).
DCP, 9ch Explosion, and Kuz Marries
[edit | edit source]In January 12th of 2006 a second developer and administrator joined called Roman V. Semyonovich (also known as "DCPDEV" or DCP online). With his help the KolymaBBS was created, which was a set of bulletin boards that incorporated 9channel. This brought a large influx of new users to the site.
Very shortly before kuz's 18th birthday, he made a newspost to the now growing population of 9ch users (around 4,500). This was his last newspost for 3 years, his next being in 2008. Below is an English translation.
greetings,
I come bearing news. Firstly, of bulletin boards. We have them now, please do use them appropriatley because me and my dearest friend and our newest developer, DCPDEV, have worked arduosly on them. You may use them to post images, shockwave flash, GIF, and other things. Please, do not upload pornography to the bulletin boards, and do not upload to them very quickly with lots of nonsense. I made 2 of these bulletin boards, /a/ is for discussion of anime, and /ap/. the latter of which is the counterpart to the /ap/ file uploader.
Secondly, DCPDEV will be our co-administrator for the time being, as i am taking an.. extended break for personal life reasons. [translators note: marriage] Do not worry, i am coming back shortly. Expect 7 or 8 days of absence. Sadly, i will not be around for the 1 year anniversary on 9channel. But i hope you all the best in the time being.
— kuzya
in the early months of 2006, 9channel was exploding with activity. /ap/ reached its 1,000th post within a day of opening, and the new co-administrator (DCP) fixed many long, drawn-out nuisances and bugs that kuz didn't. Several years later, kuz's first wife, Masha Alekseevna, passed away in a mechanical accident.
It later temporarily shut down after kuz maxed out his internet line, but he brought it back in July. In late 2006, 9channel's first image-board was created. The site as a whole, both the image and text boards, were a hotbed of criminal activity and the sharing of pornography/pirated software. In December 2005, KolymaNET was founded by kuz as a parent company and legal guardian of 9channel. It was "renewed" from an old Russian internet service provider called "Mag-Net", "Mag" being short for "Magadan", a Russian town.
9ch Convention
[edit | edit source]kuz, dcp, and then-mod yemuri-san (yemu) organized a convention to take place in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on June 30th, 2008 (kuz's 20th birthday). kuz made the gargantuan trip from Omsk to Saint Petersburg, and arrived at the Saint Petersburg Convention center on June 26th. Other 9chan users arrived before, during, and after this date.
For many 9chan users, this was their first time seeing the fabled admin. He was a somewhat normal looking adult man with swept black hair, a gaunt, slightly thin looking body, and a thick eastern accent. He socialized with some of the other attendees. Many laughs were had, and many pictures took.
kuz, wearing an oversized white t-shirt with Russian text scribbled on in black ink that translates to "BIRTHDAY BOY", took stage, with roughly 250 9channers watching. He talked about the importance of anonymity, censorship, and other serious topics until moving onto anime (including Serial Experiments Lain, his favorite at that time), his struggles with PHP, and other less serious stuff. DCP also took stage and talked about 9ch's future, looked at some stats, and then talked about anime.
kuz then held a long Q&A session with 9chan users, where almost everyone made fun of him for looking like a gook, amongst other things. Someone also made the mistake of giving kuz glowsticks which he started drunkenly dancing with and throwing at people. The day ended and everyone fell asleep around the convention (They weren't supposed to do that). The next morning, kuz gave a goodbye speech and departed back to his homeplace. Others stayed for Saint Petersburg, some left the same day, and the rest (which were the majority) left the day after.
2009
[edit | edit source]9channel's peak is, coincidentally, considered to be 2009, the year in which the site received a large boost in popularity due to it being a front page feature in an article on the Russian local newspaper omsk.ru, which described the site as an "intense harm to local society". The same year, kuz showed up in yet another Saint Petersburg 9channel convention.
On January 15th, 2009, kuz made his 10th ever newspost. This one was short, concise, and to the point. He elaborated that he would be visiting Poland for a month, and that 9chan would be adding 6 new boards to handle the additional 20,000 people who now visited the site on a daily basis.
All was fine over at 9ch, people assumed kuz was just going on another one of his "extended breaks". Little did they know kuz went to Poland, met some questionable girls, and had sex with them. During what I assume was a very weird experience for the girls, they found out things about kuz's life such as 9ch, and in a weird spiral of events, they ended up getting his username and password, resulting in it being vandalized. kuz changed the password, explained himself, and was 9ch's #1 laughingstock for a few months forever.
Post-2010
[edit | edit source]Unknown Events
[edit | edit source]This will be a list, as our source never wrote about these things in detail.
- yemu's drama
- cvnka
- kuz fucking Poles again
In 2014, kuz moved to The United States. 9channel reached 500,000 active users by 2017, but unfortunately that same year, the site was forced to shut down due to legal reasons. kuz made a news post informing users of the coming end on December 18th, and the site was fully closed on December 22nd. This was effectively the end of kuz's career until the relaunching and rebranding of KolymaNET in it's current, modern form in 2019.
Known 9channel Staff Members
[edit | edit source]Yuri Mikhailovich Kuznetsov
- Russian name - Юрий М. Кузнецов.
- Founded 9channel in March 14th, 2005.
- Served as a 9channel administrator.
- Born in Omsk, Russia on June 30th 1988.
- Nicknames - kuz, kooz, kuzzykins.
Roman Yevdokim Semyonovich
- Russian name - Роман В. Семенович.
- Joined 9channel as a second administrator on January 12th, 2006.
- Born in Russia on April 17th, 1984.
- Nicknames - DCPDEV, DCP.
mot
- Real name - Unknown.
- Joined 9channel as a moderator on March 14th, 2005.
- Born in Britain on November 16th, 1978.
eptil1
- Real name - Unknown.
- Joined 9channel as a moderator on April 11th, 2005.
- Born in Russia on September 2nd, 1987.
Anton Maximov
- Russian name - Антон Максимов.
- Born in Russia.
- Joined 9channel on March 2nd, 2008 as a moderator.
- Nickname - Yuka.
kittymod
- Real name - Unknown.
- Joined 9channel as a moderator on March 14th, 2005.
- Born in Latvia on January 20th, 1985.
Nishimura Y. Toyoshige
- No information about him has been archived other than the fact that he was part of "Team nc9ch", nc9ch being some sort of failed old project related to 9channel.
yemu
- Was supposedly a script kiddie who tried taking down the site. Kuz once samefagged as a former 9chan user to liken Yemu to Akima[1].
See Also
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