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The imageboard as it's usually thought of today began in Japan. '''Futaba Channel''', a spin-off of the popular text-based discussion board ''Ni-Channel'' (2ch) is probably the best-known. Sometimes the blanket term 'wakaba style' board is used (''wakaba'' referring to the board software that runs the board), traditionally allowing anonymous posting with a self-enforcing theme and standard that hopefully keeps it from becoming too mediocre.
The best-known in the US is probably '''[[4chan]]''', created in 2003 to serve as an English-language version of Futaba Channel. Especially among American [[Otaku]], it's quite popular for the [[Memetic Mutation|generator of memes]] and, due to [[GIFT|anonymous users and loose moderation]], extremely variable quality; for these reasons, one could see imageboards to be the antithesis of social networking sites such as [[Twitter]] and [[Facebook]].
Most American wakaba boards trace their heritage to 4chan, as alternate boards proliferated when 4chan went offline in its formative years. The successful ones tend to cover more specific niches, like [[Meganekko]] or [[Snow Means Love|sad girls in snow]]. Or [[Gorn|guro hentai]]. Or [[Lolicon]]. Or [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs|guro hentai with]] [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|underage meganekkos in snow]]. Or [[Overly Long Gag|guro hentai with underage meganekkos in snow weeping profusely over image boards]]. Or... you know what, [[Squick|let's just stop talking about it]].
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Not to be confused with our own [[Image Links]] category.
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{{examples|[[Notable]] Imageboards (''every'' link below should be considered NSFW unless specifically mentioned otherwise):}}
* While not an imageboard itself, [https://www.allchans.org/ All Chans (aka The Overchan V.3] maintains an (as up-to-date as humanly possible) list of every English-language imageboard in existence (including furry imageboards and text-based 2ch-esque boards), as well as some non-English boards. It's also the closest thing to a worksafe link from this point forward.
* The aforementioned [http://www.2chan.net/ Futaba Channel].
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** More recently, posting on the Netjester board has become a popular pastime.
* [http://fchan.us Fchan], which is the most well-known [[Furry Fandom|furry]] (primarily [[Yiff|pornographic]]) imageboard out there; although assumed to be created as a response to 4chan's infamous "April Fur's Day" prank, it was actually in existence for a while prior to it (and was created as a result of 5chan -- which hosted a couple of furry-based boards -- dying). The site set something of a standard for future furry imageboards by segregating content into different boards (one for female-only art, one for male-only art, and so on); it also marked the beginning of the term "DNP" ("Do Not Post") in the [[Furry Fandom]], due to the list of artists who asked that their work not be posted on the site. Fchan's heavyhanded moderation and large DNP list led to several furry imageboards coming into existence to counteract Fchan's perceived stupidity, the most notable of which are:
** [http://lulz.net Lulz.net], which is sometimes referred to just as /furi/ after the site's main board; it is ''pretty much always '''
*** If you go in without Adblock prepared beforehand, it's also a great stress test for your antivirus application of choice.
** [http://tgfb.net/ The Goddamned Furry Board], run by former Fchan admin Sage [[Memetic Mutation|"Goddammit"]] Freehaven.
* That 5chan may have died, but there's now [http://5chan.org/ a totally unrelated new 5chan] which adds a post voting (community moderation) feature modelled after Reddit. Except it's currently down.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20210114233758/https://55chan.org/ 55chan], the Brazilian imageboard. The site used to attract a good number of functionally illiterate users, commonly assumed coming from the social networking site Orkut. Those users would usually flood the boards with bland topics and requesting the other users to raid their enemies' pages on Orkut. The moderation eventually put a stop to this by enabling a filter that asked the user to copy a simple sentence using capitals and punctuation without using the copy-paste command; only once this had happened would a user be allowed to use the boards. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|That filter was enough to fend off the vast majority of the problem users]].
** Two other Brazilian imageboards spawned when 55chan was down: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130722150346/http://brchan.org/ BRchan] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20170521043958/http://138chan.org/ 138chan]. If 55chan was the Brazilian 4chan, it is safe to say that [[B Rchan]] and 138chan are, respectively, 7chan and 99chan.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130922022013/http://888chan.org/index.php 888chan] was the imageboard chiefly used by Project Chanology, an Internet-based movement based on the Anonymous "culture" borne from 4chan's /b/ (the group has no defined leaders, and most of the members of the various Chanology subgroups do their best to remain anonymous) which was (and still is) dedicated to "fighting" the Church of Scientology. (Project Chanology itself has been going for more than two years as of this writing; it has used several different imageboards as their base, with 4chan's /b/ being the original starting point of the movement.)
** 888Chan, as of July 2011, has been dead for nearly two years; things have moved over to Vortex Chan, including the pseudo-intellectual concept that would be considered [[Serious Business]] to the average *chan user.
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** It also has its fair share of spinoff, mostly as backups during downtimes. Because of the current downtime, it should be noted that [https://web.archive.org/web/20111013215831/http://www.hugachan.net/ Hugachan] is the current refuge for the Desuchan regulars.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170912020843/http://krautchan.net/ Krautchan], pretty much THE German imageboard. Became famous in the wake of the Winneden school shooting, when the media fell for an extremely obvious fake post announcing it (a real but completely unrelated post photoshopped). Has an /int/ board. Its humour consists mostly of intentionally bad and literal translations of english memes and imageboard slang. (Beweis mich falsch, fappieren)
** Nearly every European country (and a few non-European ones) has their own imageboard. Such as [
*** There also used to be a British imageboard, Britchan, from which the majority of [http://britfa.gs britfa.gs'] users hail. They're generally remarkably decent by imageboard standards, or by internet standards at that. Just be [[Berserk Button|careful about your spelling, punctuation and grammar]].
* [http://uboachan.net/ Uboachan], devoted to ''[[Yume Nikki]]''.
* [http://gurochan.net/ GUROchan]. The mecca for [[Gorn|guro, guro-manga]] and [[Squick|all]] [[Brain Bleach|forms]] of porn (and non-porn) [[Improbable Species Compatibility|you]] [[This Is Wrong on So Many Levels|could]] [[The Aristocrats|ever]] [[Playing to The Fetishes|want.]] [[Even Evil Has Standards|Except for real stuff.]] [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Worst of all,]] it's not super active. Not Safe For Work.
** Somewhat notably, a good bit of its userbase is surprisingly nice.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121120170239/http://iichan.net/ Idlechannel]. Mostly an aggregator of other *
* [http://tf2chan.net/ TF2chan], devoted to ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' fans. Mostly noted for the massive amounts of shipping and porn.
* Another British Image Board is [http://www.b3ta.com/ B3TA], which in addition to message boards, also has weekly or so Image Challenges, quizzes, movies and games. While the vast majority of the userbase are okay folks and the image challenges bring out funny images, the site is NSFW, and don't forget to bring your brain bleach.
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* AnonTalk, an illegal Swedish imageboard. It started off as a lolicon imageboard, created by Kimmo Alm after he was banned from 4chan for posting lolicon, but eventually went on to include ''actual'' pedophilia. It is also used as a base for planning DDoS attacks on 4chan. Despite the name, the board software it uses actually makes posters very easy to track, and 4channers have even gotten hold of Alm's home address and other personal information. But despite many attempts to report Alm and his board to the authorities, nothing has been done. The board is currently{{when}} down, but only because Alm closed it himself as he's planning to update it. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130509053249/http://ohinternet.com/AnonTalk Here is an article on it.]
* 789chan, an imageboard with a focus on technology. It is, however, most well-known for it's /cwc/ section, which, of course, focuses on Christian Chandler of Sonichu fame.
* [[8chan]], an imageboard made in the image of what [[4chan]] used to be like, and whose users include a number of [[4chan]] anons who migrated there following schisms over growing censorship. Site creator Fredrick Brennan stepped down from administrative duties as he grew increasingly disillusioned by the image board's increased focus towards extremist and even [[Squick|paedophilic]] content, calling for the site to be shut down.
* [http://www.myconfinedspace.com/ my<nowiki>[</nowiki>confined<nowiki>]</nowiki>space] is a small, intimate imageboard with a semi-moderated feed of interesting pics that range from SF/F-themed wallpapers to SFW photos of pretty girls to political memes. It also supports video embeds, and these will range from trailers for upcoming films to the amusingly weird and unusual. At one point it had considerable [[NSFW]] content, mostly hidden behind extra links, but as of early 2016 this seems to have been dropped.
* [https://www.hispachan.org/ Hispachan] is a Spanish language genial imageboard. More or less 4chan but in Spanish
*[https://kissu.moe/ Kissu.moe] descended from otaku squaters of 4chan's /qa/ board. After 2018 crackdowns on off-topic posting they created a website for anime and imageboard blogging. It's one of the few imageboards devoted to the art of discussing other imageboards.
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