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can anyone give me a historical timeline of this board? origin date, major events, historiography of discussion of works, etc.

>> No.15295263

The history of coffee dates back to the 15th century, and possibly earlier with a number of reports and legends surrounding its first use. The earliest substantiated evidence of either coffee drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree is from the early 15th century, in the Sufi monasteries of Yemen,[1] spreading soon to Mecca and Cairo. By the 16th century,

>> No.15295270

>>15295245
start with the greeks

>> No.15295272

I was here at the beginning
the first controversy was when /mlp/ was put in between us and /mu/

Some other things happened too

>> No.15295280

>>15295272
can you give me an approximate date on this? the year will work

>> No.15295293

board founded
>board is small
>mostly pretentious college lit degree faggots flock to it
>this was before the "alt right" was a thing so vast majority of them are tryhard junior marxists
>mod/janitor is hardcore leftist/feminist and bans everything else, from obvious jokes to deliberately benign conservative literature threads
>a lot of them are unsurprisingly tripfags, the board is often used as little more than a staging point to have "cam chats" on tinychat among a circle of tripfags
>all these people are newfags/otherwise don't use 4chan much
>board naturally selects more newfags/reddit types because of this culture and the excessive moderation
>a lot more lit/english majors than history/philosophy majors

around 2013
>creep of "alt right" content increasing, still banned on sight, but clash is at the point that people are actively flouting moderation
>mod vanishes mysteriously one day (possible overdose on hormones)
>board still pretty low in population
>relatively high-quality small-board discourse for a while, shitposting aside
>also creeping more toward philosophy/history types
>butterfly, one of the old tripfags and now an aging old whore unloved by all, further humiliates herself by orbiting a tranny (Feminister) who outs himself as a tranny and then literally never posts again

2016 and after
>the Great Zoomer Invasion begins with the trump campaign and continued rise of phoneposting
>board gets more and more populous along with res of 4chan
>butterfly still here, still unwanted and unliked, still has not made a single good or non-smug sounding post
>board is too fast
>increasing slide toward twitter celeb threads and "WHERE DO I START WITH ACCELERATIONISM? IS ACCELERATIONISM A SUBSET OF DARK ACADEMIA?" larp shit as average age of the board drops to "vaping high schooler who wants to be part of something but doesn't know how to read or think"

>> No.15295319

>>15295280
I don't know for sure, but maybe 2010.

>> No.15295322

This board started for good when frogtwitter came to be.

>> No.15295337

>>15295293
ok

>> No.15295341

>>15295280
>>15295319
Here's an article from 2010 about the creation of new boards, /lit/ is mentioned
https://www.themarysue.com/4chan-new-boards/

>> No.15295364

>>15295341
>>15295319
>>15295293
thank you very much, especially to the one who did the timeline for me and who made the humorous asides about the tripfags. thanks again

>> No.15295400

>>15295293
Biased exaggerated perspective.
Forcing Ayn Rand on us actually got to be a ban-able offensive. This doesn’t make the mod a “hardcore leftist”

“Alt-right” kept coming in and bugging us for tard recs and charts. /pol/ shit gets banned as it should.
And there was no outting of feminister as anything but but lying about a boyfriend. Never showed up again, but w/e. “Orbit”? I appreciated the contributions. You image all the rest.

>Zoomers is why its bad!
No u

>> No.15295410

>>15295364
The trips pretty much founded the place and made it what it was. A nice place about literature

>> No.15295444

>>15295400
>bugging us for TRAD recs and charts
Hahha

>> No.15295449

Pretty sure I posted the first NYE postcard thread on /lit/ in like 2012 which gathered all the ebin memes through collective effort, I dont have the pictures anymore but someone probably does

>> No.15295459
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15295459

>/lit/ founded
>Harry Potter and Twilight threads ad infinitum
>some morons start a /lit/ zine and publish trash, one article being a Final Fantasy 7 review with typos and grammatical errors
>ereader debate threads
>eventually the novelty of a /lit/ board dies off and most of the cancerous Potterfags go away
>Nanowrimo threads every year
>writer fags pretty much dominate and ruin the board with their critique threads
>also lots of philosophy fags who get all their info from wikipedia. Daily discussions on what nihilism is and isn't.
>tripfags dominate the board, specifically Calle Borjesson with discussions on weed and tripfags being unique and special and the heart of /lit/
>Calle Borjesson leaves after he gets doxxed for threatening to shoot up his high school on Valentine's day
>around 2014-2015 I got so sick of all the writer fags and wikipedia philosophy and pseudo/news/ shit that I left and didn't come back until 2020
>things are pretty much the same

>> No.15295496

>>15295459
this is a terrible fucking chart. thanks for this: i'll put this in the historiographic collection

>> No.15295553
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15295553

/lit/'s brief time on these reticulating wires is divided into eras Pre-Megan and Post-Megan

>> No.15295573

>>15295553
what is the Meganian era?

>> No.15295588

>>15295459
>>things are pretty much the same
/lit/ used to be a lot edgier in an angsty male teenage way, now it's edgy in a juvenile feminist way

>> No.15295591

>>15295293
And then me, the only one here who reads for fun.

>> No.15295606

guenonfag era was the golden age

>> No.15295608

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gIFqBdRsvE

>> No.15295628

Coffee is good for you and stimulates the urge to read. Cumbrain pictures stimulate your dick and enslave you to a life long habit that ruins your life. Really makes you think.

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>>15295606
he's still here, he just doesn't make fifty threads a day

>> No.15295631

>>15295608
women who talk this slowly and lean on every insignificant intonation of theirs with such weight don't deserve to be listened to. I hope this video wasn't a major event of /lit/ history because I don't want to document it

>> No.15295635

>>15295608
we just sexually harassed her

>> No.15295648

>>15295631
Do you have oily smarts? If no, why would we want you to document us?

>> No.15295653

>>15295648
it's for a research project for university. I have to document the events of the discourse community to which I believe I belong, faithfully analyzing the members, the ideologies, the events, and the ontological character of the place

>> No.15295662

>>15295631
I feel the same about a lot of the content on /lit/.
She’s just shooting the breeze. She’s right, anonymous is fucked up and shallow.

>> No.15295671

>>15295653
You didn't really answer my question, which I guess is kinda oily, but still not very.
>I have to document the events of the discourse community to which I believe I belong
So if someone is a complete nolifer they have to make shit up or fail the course?

>> No.15295681

>>15295400
low bait

>> No.15295688

>>15295681
You’re low bait. That was a quick correction effort for a shitty trad-tard’s bait

>> No.15295694

>>15295671
indeed. they give you the flexibility to make things up and the actual ontological category of the discourse community is so ill-defined that I just decided to pick this place because a. I know a decent amount about its current history and b. it's a place I regularly frequent and with which I am familiar. as far as your question goes, I am oily but only in my hair. I don't have any reason why you would want me to document you.

>>15295662
do you mind if I mention you as one of the founding or formative members of the discourse community?

>> No.15295714

>>15295694
“Discourse community”?
/lit/ community. I was coming in as Deep&Edgy was leaving (for /fit/ or whatever)

>> No.15295718

>>15295688
if you think it was biased and exagerated tell us how it really was instead of just saying his description was biased and exagerated

>> No.15295722

>>15295662
the eyebrows comment was from (some version of) butters, not an anon

>> No.15295750

I've been posting here since 2013.

Feminister coming out was too good. Butter free's reputation never recovered.

Things I miss: Pynchon posting, dfw posting, Wittgenstein posting, Stirner spooks posting. The last two especially. Notpynchon is a classic lit moment.

The red haired booktuber who had to shut down her channel because of 4chan harassment when she was like what 15 or 16? Definitely top 5 /lit/ moment, was hilarious but also I think that was the watershed moment for the board being taken over by the alt right trumpian contingency that has completely taken over 4chan since 2016.

>> No.15295754

>>15295722
Link

>>15295718
Forcing Ayn Rand on us actually got to be a ban-able offensive. This doesn’t make the mod a “hardcore leftist”

“Alt-right” kept coming in and bugging us for tard recs and charts. /pol/ shit gets banned as it should.
And there was no outting of feminister as anything but but lying about a boyfriend. Never showed up again, but w/e. “Orbit”? I appreciated the contributions. You image all the rest.

>> No.15295763

>>15295754
your english if ok.
did you learnt it on your own?

>> No.15295767

>>15295245
Just read the 4chan history wiki(s) and similar.

>> No.15295809
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15295809

any other Megheads get the text? hard to believe it's actually happening

>> No.15295817

>>15295245
Check out this audiobook
Gives a quick run down of the history of coffee

http://www.jmjsite.com/media/hunolt_ss_vol1/20sun_pent_vol_I.mp3

>> No.15295829

>>15295817
>>15295628
>>15295263
what is the meme regarding coffee? can someone fill me in on origin, ontological category, and meaning?

>> No.15295831

>>15295293
Needs more Sunhawk.

>> No.15295833

>>15295829
>origin
see: >>15295263

>> No.15295839

>>15295833
I mean its origin vis-à-vis its relevance here on the board. when did it become a meme, with what is it connected, and what is the actual signification of it? what does it stand for?

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>>15295628

>> No.15295845

>>15295809
Yeah, WeChat is cray rn, she's all over Bmore, how did Megan do that?