>>1011523They started on /ck/ back in 2008-2009. That image in
>>1011521 is from 2009. It moved to /diy/ when it was created then moved to /out/ shortly after it was created. Most of 4chan is directed to these threads on /out/ now, it seems. We didn't even start counting threads on /out/ for a long time.
Also, 1 thread would last months. MONTHS. Here's #7 in 2013 and there's been a thread up pretty much 24/7 since then. lol Since so many people come to the threads now, including Australia now, they move along much faster. For a long time, there were only USA posters and in the winter the threads would die down to a crawl.