4scrape
From Encyclopedia Dramatica
4scrape is was a website that collects collected, or "scrapes scraped", wallpapers and other big-ass pictures from 4chan and presents presented them in a searchable archive. Created in June '08(and killed July '09) by a loser known as Taro (or Hark, whatever), 4scrape takesused to take images from /w/ (the wallpaper board for weeaboos), /wg/ (the wallpaper board for normal nerds), and /hr/ (the high-resolution board, for those nerds who are too lazy to resize their X-BOX HUGE images to a reasonable level).
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The Site
4SCRAPE IS DOWN DUE TO HARD DRIVE FAILURE. DEAD.[1]
Simplistically designed with a dark gray background, a search bar, and a couple buttons, 4scrape allows allowed you to search through the many awesome wallpapers posted to 4chan. So naturally, it containscontained roughly 80% hentai and other various sorts of porn. The other 20% is comprised of old memes and other overused image macros, anime, and video games. You are used to be held at the mercy of the channers when searching for specific wallpapers. Since 4scrape simply gathers used to gather data from 4chan, your search will have would of had to coincide with the filenames given to the images when originally uploaded to 4chan or the text contained in the original post attached to it, leaving you to hope that the degenerate retards who uploaded the pictures are organized enough to give the images proper filenames. Good luck with that.OH THE IRONY!
Of course, this is assuming that the site is even working.(Because it isn't and won't be anymore, get it!?) Originally written in Python, Taro decided he could write it in an even more useless language, so he rewrote the entire thing in Haskell, the world's leading uselessly functional toy language. On the off chance that the site is actually functional, you are treated to 4scrape's image layout, in which all of the wallpapers are laid out in rows of thumbnails on a single page. While this makes navigation easy, it also means that the page loads slower than a three-legged turtle due to dumb AJAX shit. So be prepared to scroll for half an hour, then wait another half hour for all of the images to load, only to find that the one wallpaper that isn't shit was actually taken from a desktop thread and comes complete with a taskbar, icons, and various desktop widgets, forcing you to go to 4chan and ask for sauce anyway.
4scrape also has used to have a comments section, which like its image pages, contains only one page to hold all 9000+ comments, most of which are were spam anyway.
Desudesudesu
4scrape itself is not a separate domain, and is instead just a sub-site of the domain desudesudesu.org, a chan-inspired chat club for comics and anime (as if 4chan wasn't enough for any nerd to quench his thirst to have a discussion over whether Goku could beat Superman in a fight). The chat site is not very popular, though, and has an impressively pathetic 84 registered users. Additionally, as you may have guessed, the site's creator is obviously involved in chan culture, and this is evident by the numerous memes that are sprinkled about both the chat site (CAINE) and the wallpaper archive (4scrape). The creator also appears to be a Rozen Maiden-fag with with a particular fetish for the character Suigintou, as it seems to be the name of the server 4scrape runs on. Seriously, you know you will be a virgin forever when you start naming your computers after dolls.
Uses
By far the most prevalent use of 4scrape is as an excuse for 4channers to never again have to fulfill a request on the wallpaper boards. The idea behind the site was both to archive all of the shitty pics posted on the aforementioned boards and to decrease the amount of reposts and /r/equests so the boards would be less stagnant. So instead of the old system, wherein retards would constantly make requests for frequently posted images, those retards now constantly make requests for frequently posted images and another poster yells, "OMG THIS ISN'T /R/ GO 2 4SCRAPE FGT!1!"
But in the end, 4scrape still allows you to look at a bunch of images from 4chan without actually having to go through the hassle of wading through the fail to get them firsthand. As one blogger puts it:
| — LOL PWNED! |
External Links
4scrape- All the boring technical shit about the site
- Taro's blog where he rants about even more boring overengineered technical shit
- CAINE UVa Comics and Anime Club
- /s/ scraper
- /wg/ and /w/ scraper
- /wg/, /w/ and /hr/ scraper
