Megapeen

Anonymous

Hi. Is any of that verifiable, in reliable sources? We're kind of picky about that, you know. -GTBacchus^(talk) 05:47, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Well it's logical. Why would a group of people want to be anonymous on the internet in the first place, for fun?

The website obviously got the idea of being anonymous on the internet from somewhere and that's where they clearly got it from.

Generally speaking unless you were doing something underhanded on the internet, you would have no reason to be anonymous, you'd go by some form of username or moniker.

The first time people used anonymous as a name on the internet, whether a group or individually, initially started with hacking.

Discounting the guy ofcourse that when he booted up his IBM back in the 80's/90's thought he'd use Anonymous as a fun username.

I just ask because it's likely to be deleted if it can't be backed up in sources. Logical isn't enough, because of Wikipedia's no original research policy. I'm just lettin' you know. -GTBacchus^(talk) 06:04, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Fair enough, it just seemed the logical origin rather then imageboards. No worries.

I suppose you could source any book on hackers or movie in which they use anonymity on the internet to some advantage, hence proving the concept started with that but, considering the movies are technically fiction and the books are just authors writing on the philosophy of it.

I'm sure you could find something but I don't have anything to hand at the moment that I could put down.