<p>Like all questions the answer depends on who you ask.</p>
Like all questions the answer depends on who you ask.
<p>My answer:</p>
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<p>First what lainchan.org is:</p>
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<p>lainchan.org is a domain name, the host that domain name points to hosts an imageboard called lainchan based on vichan, it hosts a Mumble server, it hosts an audio stream.</p>
My answer:
<p>The purpose of lainchan.org the domain name is so you don't have to type an IP address to access the services hosted on the previously mentioned host.</p>
First what lainchan.org is:
<p>The purpose of lainchan.org is to be a place / community where people can interact online.</p>
lainchan.org is a domain name, the host that domain name points to hosts an imageboard called lainchan based on vichan, it hosts a Mumble server, it hosts an audio stream.
<p>What makes lainchan.org community different from all the other places / communities where people can interact online ?</p>
The purpose of lainchan.org the domain name is so you don't have to type an IP address to access the services hosted on the previously mentioned host.
<p>This is another good question, and one you haven't asked yet, but I will try to answer anyhow.</p>
The purpose of lainchan.org is to be a place / community where people can interact online.
<p>Our main distinguishing factors are related to our appreciation of Lain and Serial Experiments Lain. </p>
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<p>The series is influenced by themes such as reality, identity, and communication, and it demonstrates them by using philosophy, computer history, cyberpunk literature, and conspiracy theory. (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Experiments_Lain)</p>
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<p>Most of the boards on the image board reflect aspects or influences of the series.</p>
What makes lainchan.org community different from all the other places / communities where people can interact online ?
<p>Because the series is influenced by cyberpunk literature, it very easy to label the lainchan.org community as just a cyberpunk image board, but I believe that label is incomplete at best and a restriction at worst.</p>
This is another good question, and one you haven't asked yet, but I will try to answer anyhow.
<p>My answer isn't the only answer, and I happy to see others posting their answer to the same question.</p>
Our main distinguishing factors are related to our appreciation of Lain and Serial Experiments Lain.
<p>My question to you which you don't need to answer here.</p>
The series is influenced by themes such as reality, identity, and communication, and it demonstrates them by using philosophy, computer history, cyberpunk literature, and conspiracy theory. (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Experiments_Lain)
<p>The lainchan community is to you what you want it to be. What do you want it to be ?</p>
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<p>Answers according to other sources: </p>
Most of the boards on the image board reflect aspects or influences of the series.
Because the series is influenced by cyberpunk literature, it very easy to label the lainchan.org community as just a cyberpunk image board, but I believe that label is incomplete at best and a restriction at worst.
Benjamin Southall
7 years ago