Where do babies come from?

Why do the textboards even exist?
I mean, 4chan was an imageboard from the start, right? So we can't be old 4chan.
Moot just decided that he wanted to make part of 4chan even more minimalistic, not realising the power _an^d magic of BBcode??

https://www.4chan.org/rules#global12
Impersonating the 4chan administrator, moderators, or janitors is strictly forbidden.