harbl

tell me about harbl

It's dog for "Do not want!".

Background:
Back in 2004 there was this tripfag name Soviet_Russia#deadjew
Since this was the early ass days, moot decided to give this guy his own whole board on 4chan which was /z/ and it was basically a puked up pile of random gif and horrible stylesheeting that was short lived as he soon became "bored" of it immediately after accidentally giving out the password for his moderator login on irc.

About harbl:
He was going to search in google for "pearl harbor" for a reason I forget and ended up typoing harbor with "harbl"
He found this word to be funny enough to post about making image macros that would say "ooooh you touch my harbl" using some faggy livejournal guy who I think ended up becoming that fag that that "The Game" book is about, but basically So_Ru would post this guys pics claiming them as himself (it wasn't)
The /b+z+etc/ denizens at the time found it pretty funny and thus become one of the prototypical major memes on 4chan along with stuff like "take the knot!" and cockmongler and happy negro et cetera.

Of course, as this was 8 years ago and most of the imageboard userbase was still in diapers when this all happened, hardly any of them have even heard of harbl let alone Soviet_Russia or the short-lived /z/, but its usage is still seen on occasion.
As for where So_Ru is now, I think he probably died, he was some obese crazy shit, heart attack or suicide you take your pick. Or he's on reddit or whatever site is the "hippest" shit these days.

is there any other ¨hidden¨ boards? i know /flash/ is a weird flash dump for who knows what and /fk/ existed once right?

>>3
Thank you for the in depth explanation.

>>5
I still have most of the imagemacros that he made from the images of whoever the dude was, but they're on my desktop and I'm going to attempt sleep. Tomorrow sometime I'll upload them and link them here.

Lol you took him to da bar+

http://imgur.com/a/Dvg8A

>>7
That one was actually quite a bit later on, about 06 or 07 iirc, not really sure since I had abandoned the imageboards by then, but here's all the earliest stuff.
http://imgur.com/a/fdhNN

There's also some /z/, So_Ru, harbl related stuff in this one that I didn't include in the last one, including the screenshot of the irc log.

bobba

>>3
thanks it is always interesting to learn the history of the image and text broads we have grown to love.

im gay.

>>4
/fk/ is still around, but moot got rid of /yg/ a long time ago.