Hiroyuki Nishimura
| Hiroyuki Nishimura | |
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Hiroyuki Nishimura in Sapporo, 2005
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| Born |
November 16, 1976 Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Known for | Founding 2channel, being the owner of 4chan |
Hiroyuki Nishimura (西村博之 Nishimura Hiroyuki?, born November 16, 1976) is the founder and a former administrator of the most accessed Japanese message board site2channel. Until February 2013, he held a position of director at Niwango Inc., known for its service Nico Nico Douga.
On the Internet, he is usually known by his given name, hiroyuki.Christopher Poole, the founder of 4chan, formally announced on 21 September 2015 that he had sold the website to Nishimura.
Nishimura was born in Sagamihara, Kanagawa but raised in Tokyo. He founded the company Tokyo Access in 1998 while he was at Chuo University. In May 1999, he opened 2channel while he was studying at the University of Central Arkansas. In June 2001, he founded Irregulars and Partners, Inc with Ichirō Yamamoto, but later left there.
As of January 2007[update] Nishimura was an advisor to Skip-Up KK, CEO of Tokyo Plus KK, director of Mirai Kensaku Brazil (Future Search Brazil) Ltd., and a director of Niwango Inc., the company that launched Nico Nico Douga.
Nishimura, Ichirō Yamamoto, and Yoshihiro "Yakin" Nakao, President of Zero Co.Ltd. were the early central management members of 2channel, but Ichirō Yamamoto left the group in 2002, and Nishimura resigned from his company.
Nakao is a server specialist, and has been managing most of the 2channel servers since the Neomugicha incident, a case in 2000 in which a 17-year-old posted messages threatening to hijack a bus, and then went on to kill one person in the hijacking. The event caused a huge wave of user access, and the old servers went down.
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