[fnordfnordfnord]

Also, moot was a teenager at the time.

[linuxydave]

Yep. IIRC the code hasn't really be updated or redone since then.

[ANTSANTS]

4chan has grown to be quite obviously more sophisticated than Futaba, which really has stayed pretty much the same for over a decade. You can see for yourself:

http://may.2chan.net/27/futaba.htm

(that's their board for cat pictures, the most SFW one I could find, but the banner ads are probably still NSFW, so keep that in mind)