ウェブYes. Current status. Active. 2channel ( Japanese: 2ちゃんねる, Hepburn: ni channeru), also known as 2ch, [5] Channel 2, [6] [7] and sometimes retrospectively as 2ch.net, [8] was an anonymous Japanese textboard [b] founded in 1999 by Hiroyuki Nishimura. Described in 2007 as "Japan's most popular online community", [9] the site had a level ...