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The first pick-up artist [[Ross Jeffries]] publishes "How to Get the Women You Desire Into Bed" in 1992, arguing against [[nice guy]] behaviour.  The [[alt.seduction.fast]] Usenet newsgroup was founded by Lewis De Payne, a student of [[Ross Jeffries]] in 1994. In the same year, [[Michel Houellebecq]] published his first novel, "[[Whatever]]", which frankly discusses increased sexual stratification and pauperization.  

Although the term "incel" did exist in the late-90s, the most common term in the incelosphere used to refer to involuntarily celibate people in the 90s was, "socially anxious men", on the [[alt.support.shyness]] Usenet Group and "AFC" meaning "average frustrated chump" on the [[alt.seduction.fast]] (ASF) Usenet newsgroup. [[Alana's Involuntary Celibacy Project]] coined the word [[incel]] in 1997 which eventually cultivated into academic research on incels.  This research was published and called the [[Donnelly Study]] by sociologist [[Denise Donnelly]]. The terms "incel" and involuntary celibate" subsequently became valid sociological terms. A mailing list (forum) was created on the Project's site in 1997, the first official incel forum.  In 1998, members of [[alt.support.shyness]] were invited, helping to populate the mailing list.  Alana's mailing list was a [[feminist]] forum, and Alana had created the first incel forum as a lesbian with dating experience.  Alana stopped maintaining the forum around 2003.  A year later, in 1998, the first online German incel community, [[Parsimonyforum 3708]] of the [[Absolute Beginners]], was established.<ref>https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=de&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://wiki.abtreff.de/archive/index.php%253Ftitle%3DHistorie.html&xid=17259,15700022,15700124,15700149,15700186,15700190,15700201,15700214&usg=ALkJrhhzVfHdI_o1SzzjjtagKVbEFA_C7w</ref>

===2000s===

In 2000, [[Beate Küpper]], wrote a psychology dissertation called, "[[Are singles different from the others?]] : a comparison of singles and couples", exploring the causes of, "involuntary singles", as opposed to, "voluntary singles".<ref>http://www-brs.ub.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/netahtml/HSS/Diss/KuepperBeate/</ref>  In 2002, she later publishes the book called, "[[Are singles different?]] A Comparison of Singles and Couples Series: Focal Points of Personality.<ref>http://www.single-generation.de/wissenschaft/beate_kuepper.htm</ref>

In 2003, [[love-shy.com]] started as an anonymous board before it switched to non-anoymous a couple years later. The Japanese inspired image-board [[4chan]] also started this year as an anonymous community.  In 2004, Alana's former community and project moved to a new forum called [[Incelsite]], and in 2006 this forum was rebranded to [[IncelSupport]].  In 2004, Tectum Verlag, a German scientific book publisher publishes [[Olaf Wickenhöfer|Olaf Wickenhöfer's]] study of, "involuntary single[s]", citing Donnelly, Gilmartin, and Küpper, as well as his own study.<ref>http://www.single-generation.de/single-kultur/olaf_wickenhoefer.htm</ref>  In 2006, [[Arne Hoffmann]] publishes a book called, "Untouched", chronicling the stories of 11 incels, as well as reviewing the available literature on the subject and publishing new essays on the subject of inceldom.<ref>http://www.single-generation.de/single-kultur/arne_hoffmann.htm#unberuehrt</ref> In 2006, the Japanese Marxist incelospherian group [[Kakuhido]] emerges, doing public protests of Christmas, Valentine's Day, and White Day all that same year.   

===2010s===

In 2008, 4chan's [[r9k]] board appeared, the first [[4chan]] board that arguably became an unofficial incel forum.  Since 2008, [[r9k]] defined most of what media as of 2018 refers to as "incel subculture".  Also, in 2008, the first clip of the unreleased US incel documentary [[The Incel Project]] was uploaded to blip.tv. The developing documentary seemed to have stalled sometime between 2012-2014, with only a couple clips floating around. Around 2008, the anti-feminist [[True Forced Loneliness]] 'movement' started, a space adjacent to incel boards consisting of three (later 16+) vloggers and a website complaining about dating from a societal perspective. In 2009, [[love-shy.com]] came under the adminship of an extremely anti-feminist admin for a couple years.  This is the same year that the [[PSL]] boards started, a sequential group of raucous forums that happened to contain a lot of involuntary celibates. In 2011, the subreddit [[foreveralone|r/foreveralone]] and would go on to become one of the most gender-inclusive spaces of the incelosphere. In 2013, [[IncelSupport]] crashed, and all forum posts were lost in the process.   

In 2014, [[Robin Sprenger]] publishes academic literature on inceldom called, "Male Absolute Beginner: A Communication Science Approach to Explaining Partnerlessness", which is self-explanatory.  It was published by Springer VS.