No one will ever read this post, and yet I still feel the need to post it.

Anyways, I found >>10's comment kind of funny:

>since anon-imageboards have grown so much since then, I doubt there will be any more image archives in the future

Oh, how wrong you were. See:

Image-only

*4scrape (dead, but still)
*4walled
*some other site that was shit

Entire Board Archives (admittedly only archiving thumbnails)

*easymodo
*probably some more

It was possible! Granted, an attempt to archive larger boards, or to archive the images and the posts, would probably end in tears. Even if it was private access, just downloading all of that data would use ridiculous amounts of bandwidth, cost ridiculous amounts of processing time for MD5/other checksum compares (I would assume, with a large enough database), and let's not get started on storage space.

In a few years, however, who knows what will be possible. Anyways, to anyone who's reading this, it's good to know that there are other people that share my pastime (that is, reading threads buried deep in the archives of random BBSes)