4chan is about 5 years older than Reddit.

4chan is an Americanized version of Japan's famous 2ch (2channel) and was originally intended for anime and Japanese discussion until a mass purge of users from SomethingAwful found refuge in the /b/ forum of 4chan. It was mostly an underground source of memes and humor until 2008 when Project Chanology tried to make 4chan their personal army and Attack of the Show did an episode on the sight, opening them up in popularity to a much wider audience. Since then it has gone downhill, and with the rise in popularity of Reddit following the death of Digg around 2010, 4chan was mostly floundered and most of the good members have left. (Good being a synonym for quality here, not moral character.)

What I'm most interested in is how you can confidently state a false belief (Reddit is as old as 4chan), make a claim that it was relevant due to its owner (it wasn't), and that you get ~1200 upvotes as of this time. This, to me, shows Reddit's hivemind and how false assumptions get spread. If you state something with enough conviction and enough people support the idea, then it is seen as true.

Not that I give a shit about defending 4chan or anything on that level, it's just more amazing how 'fake knowledge' like this spreads.