Archivist's Note:
This website is an archive of world2ch.org, aiming to preserve the contents of the original site as closely as possible.
The original world2ch.org ran from approximately 2011-07-02 to 2018-04-19. The last days of the site were bumpy with the site being often down, the wiki broken, and with the textboard temporarily moved to espeon.info at one point while the site was down (espeon.info also went offline sometime in 2018).
The archives of w2ch this site is using are the one found at https://archive.org/details/world2ch_2018-04-08 and https://archive.org/details/world2ch-2020-03-16. In particular, that second archive contains the contents of the textboards as provided by 0037 in his final archive. The wiki contents come from the first and have been cleaned up by an associate.
All images originally found in word2ch.org/images, as well as a few extra images related to the site and the culture that existed around it, can be found in /images.
At some point in time 0037 slightly modified the front page of w2ch. If you want the specifics go to archive.org, I'm not going to bother with preserving a tiny edit.
All other archivist notes are left in red, just like this text.

I felt motivated (primarily by the extremely affordable hosting plans available these days) to publish and hopefully preserve some history of world2ch, 4chan's earliest days, and other happenings of the Internet ca. late 2003. Actually, I won't be preserving shit. As soon as I lose interest and stop paying my bills, archive.org will be the one in charge of that.

Before we get started, let me get a few things out of the way:

• A lot of my language may be harsh and is definitely not cool with Christ. Please feel free to leave now if that might bother you. No one is forcing you to stay here and listen to me. Frankly, I don't know how you found this in the first place. Maybe you searched for "is 4chan cool with Christ?" I'll answer that right now: no. No it is not.
• What I refer to as "history" is in fact entirely my opinion. With the advent of the Internet, it's no longer the victors that write history but the many butt-hurt losers who offer their opinion about how the other side cheated. I am also not the most stable individual in the world so please take everything I say with a grain of salt.
• As for the matter of my credentials, well... I'm 0037 from world2ch (0037!A0z7CY5eG2). There's roughly one in person in the world that knows what that means and zero who actually care. That's not going to stop me, though. I think this may one day actually be of interest to someone and I'm going to have fun doing it.

There's one other piece of business: Are you from world2ch or the early days of 4chan? Are you not a whiny little bitch? Would you like to tell stories of your experiences, perhaps provide choice images from that era, or have other fun artifacts for publication here? Contact me: admin@world2ch.org. Even better, say it on the BBS.