3. INTRODUCTION
• Anonymous is a group that is associated with
international network of activist and hacktivist entities.
• Anonymous originated in 2003 on the imageboard
4chan. (forum site) And they represent their existing as
an anarchic.
• They first came to public attention in January, 2008.
• Anonymous members known as «Anons».
• They can be distinguished in public by the wearing of Guy
Fawkes masks in the style portrayed in the graphic novel
and film. (like V for Vendetta)
4. The mask became
common on online
message boards,
including 4chan, the
chaotic incognito
forum where
Anonymous seems to
have sprung up. So
by 2008, Anonymous
supporters were
wearing this mask.