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== History ==
== History ==
[[Image:anonchris.jpg|thumb|Typical /cwc/ user]]
[[Image:anonchris.jpg|thumb|Typical /cwc/ user]]
/cwc/ was originally set up on the Krapple board, but on 1 [[November 2009]], /cwc/, as well as the entire board, was permanently deleted for CEO having ''terabytes'' of [[anime]] on server space. It was brought back soon after on a spin-off chan on Legi0n. Legi0n also later shut down due to some drama with some of its admins in [[August 2010]], and the board was moved once more to 789chan. While hosted at 789chan, /cwc/ was re-purposed as a general lolcows board rather than a Chris-centric one, though Chris still remains the most popular topic and the board's namesake. The administrator of 789chan tired of running the website, and decided to let the project die in [[November 2012]]. This probably comes as no surprise to the users as a few months previous he explained this was soon to happen and that he was burned out from the project. Almost immediately after the loss of 789chan, a shifty Mexican business man rebuilt the site as n0chan with similar code, calling the new board /cow/. This later died, with the next incarnation being found on 888chan, which later died when the administrator of 888chan got sick of paying for it. The current incarnation can be found on [[Wikipedia:8chan|8chan]], however it is currently offline due to [[Wikipedia:Christchurch mosque shootings|several]] [[Wikipedia:Poway synagogue shooting|recent]] [[Wikipedia:2019 El Paso shooting|controversies]]. As of [[August 2019]], the board can be accessed on JulayWorld, one of the many bunker boards of 8chan.
/cwc/ was originally set up on the Krapple board, but on 1 [[November 2009]], /cwc/, as well as the entire board, was permanently deleted for CEO having ''terabytes'' of [[anime]] on server space. It was brought back soon after on a spin-off chan on Legi0n. Legi0n also later shut down due to some drama with some of its admins in [[August 2010]], and the board was moved once more to 789chan. While hosted at 789chan, /cwc/ was re-purposed as a general lolcows board rather than a Chris-centric one, though Chris still remains the most popular topic and the board's namesake. The administrator of 789chan tired of running the website, and decided to let the project die in [[November 2012]]. This probably comes as no surprise to the users as a few months previous he explained this was soon to happen and that he was burned out from the project. Almost immediately after the loss of 789chan, a shifty Mexican business man rebuilt the site as n0chan with similar code, calling the new board /cow/. This later died, with the next incarnation being found on 888chan, which later died when the administrator of 888chan got sick of paying for it. The next incarnation was then formed on [[Wikipedia:8chan|8chan]], which stayed for several years before shutting down due to [[Wikipedia:Christchurch mosque shootings|several]] [[Wikipedia:Poway synagogue shooting|recent]] [[Wikipedia:2019 El Paso shooting|controversies]]. As of [[August 2019]], the current incarnation can be accessed on JulayWorld, the largest part of the 8chan refuge webring.


==Derivative boards==
==Derivative boards==
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== External links ==
== External links ==
*[https://8ch.net/cow/ /cwc/'s current incarnation] (Currently inaccessible as of August 2019)
*[https://julay.world/cow/ /cwc/'s current incarnation]
*[https://julay.world/cow/ Bunker board]  
*[http://www.mediafire.com/?myc11iitiw6ud Archive on Mediafire]
*[http://www.mediafire.com/?myc11iitiw6ud Archive on Mediafire]
*[http://encyclopediadramatica.rs/Legi0n ED article on Legi0n]
*[http://encyclopediadramatica.rs/Legi0n ED article on Legi0n]

Revision as of 20:50, 29 September 2019

All it took was words and a red gradient to keep Chris away
Would you fuck me, 789chan? I'd fuck me.
Chris, It's not that cold
cwc redirects here. For other uses, see Christian Weston Chandler (disambiguation).

/cow/ is an image board dedicated to Chris and other lolcows. Various other imageboards have also followed Chris, including /cwc/, Krapple, Legi0n, 789chan and /atf/.

Ivy has alleged that Chris had discovered the site, based on a tip off from a successful white knight, but his response was that the colors bothered him and that there were "too many words."

Chris made direct reference to the 789chan incarnation of /cwc/ in the video It's not that cold, asking if they'd fuck him. In the video, he also pretends to dig up his dead dog Patti Chandler and wear her as a coat. This is also a reference to the /cwc/ board, as a vocal minority of users in Legi0n era /cwc/ kept suggesting that the trolls should hire a tranny hooker to dig up Patti, as a way of trolling Chris. How much Chris actually knows about 789chan or whether or not he browses the board remains to be seen.

History

Typical /cwc/ user

/cwc/ was originally set up on the Krapple board, but on 1 November 2009, /cwc/, as well as the entire board, was permanently deleted for CEO having terabytes of anime on server space. It was brought back soon after on a spin-off chan on Legi0n. Legi0n also later shut down due to some drama with some of its admins in August 2010, and the board was moved once more to 789chan. While hosted at 789chan, /cwc/ was re-purposed as a general lolcows board rather than a Chris-centric one, though Chris still remains the most popular topic and the board's namesake. The administrator of 789chan tired of running the website, and decided to let the project die in November 2012. This probably comes as no surprise to the users as a few months previous he explained this was soon to happen and that he was burned out from the project. Almost immediately after the loss of 789chan, a shifty Mexican business man rebuilt the site as n0chan with similar code, calling the new board /cow/. This later died, with the next incarnation being found on 888chan, which later died when the administrator of 888chan got sick of paying for it. The next incarnation was then formed on 8chan, which stayed for several years before shutting down due to several recent controversies. As of August 2019, the current incarnation can be accessed on JulayWorld, the largest part of the 8chan refuge webring.

Derivative boards

Due to the unmanageable volume of posts on /cwc/, the Legi0n staff decided to create additional, more specific Chris-related boards. /cxc/ (fanfics and copypastas), /kcwc/ (chris-related songs/music videos), /CWCrt/ (trolling schemes), and /library/ (to archive threads of major importance). The move to 789chan eventually dropped all of these boards, while adding /L/ in place of /library/.

Other

/cwc/ also operated an IRC channel and a dedicated trolling wiki back in the Legi0n days. The wiki and IRC channel have both since shut down, but 789chan took its place which is was also shut down. Today, /cow/ has its own IRC channel, #/cow/ that can be accessed in any IRC clients

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