What's the greatest thing you've discovered while dicking around on the internet?

[The Cringe Connoisseur]

A few years ago someone on reddit posted that googling "Fat slob who makes documentaries" pulls up Michael Moore's wiki page and it actually fucking worked. I laughed so god damn hard and I still wonder to this day who at google hated Michael Moore so much that they made that a thing. I just checked to see if it still works earlier and sadly it doesn't but it does pull up a wiki page for a book someone wrote called "Michael Moore is a big fat stupid white man" so that's pretty good too I guess.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Universe simulators like Celestia and Space Engine?

(former and older versions of that latter are free)

 

[Bunny Wigglesworth]

WebSDR Internet Connected Wideband Radios.
websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901

I no longer miss the shortwave radio stolen during the melanating of my neighborhood.

 

[The Last Stand]

Joan Crawford from the pandemic.

 

[TATE MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODE!!]

Nothing too neat but I miss the days of web 1.0 of finding weird niche websites.

One of them was a temp workers site called "Not My Desk" and his bizarre adventures of temping ran by a guy who did some Half-Life 2 webcomic called "Concerned: The Half-Life and Death of Gordon Frohman." I think the guy running it was named John C. Livingston iirc.

Unfortunately like a lot of small sites from back in the day it's lost to time.

 

[Testacles Maximus]

Kiwi Farms.

 

[PS2 Nishiki]

The fact that there are websites dedicated to mailing people a gallon of gorilla shit.

 

[Sundae]

I've come across some great music. Bands and artists I've never heard of, but have gone on to become personal favorites.

 

[Simp Biscuit]

I randomly found a site around 2008 that mailed me a case of different absinthe bottles including Swiss and old Czech bottles, lied on the customs forms and accepted my actual citibank credit card with the chance of a charge back.
I don't know what I was thinking, I don't know what they were thinking but it was $300+ well spent.

I remember a geocities or angelfire page where a guy would dissect and review old photos and videos of 70s/80s kids opening presents, like an NFL play by play with a side of FBI psychological commentary "I don't know if little Johnny is excited about the Flash Gordon inflatable blimp - the smile isn't quite authentic".

 

[Senegalese POW]

Kiwi Farms.

 

[Rudy Coleman]

the first thing i googled when i was 5 was the word poo and i found ratemyshit.com

 

[Super Dilator Duel 3D]

This is a fantastic thread idea. I miss when you could find cool shit on the Internet that wasn't gay, black, corporate or on social media.

I remember a geocities or angelfire page where a guy would dissect and review old photos and videos of 70s/80s kids opening presents, like an NFL play by play with a side of FBI psychological commentary "I don't know if little Johnny is excited about the Flash Gordon inflatable blimp - the smile isn't quite authentic".

If you ever find the name again, let me know. It sounds really funny.

thread tax: Kiwi Farms is the obvious answer, but there are a lot of artsy webpages I found back in the day which I remember enjoying. I don't know how many of these still exist now, unfortunately. I also have a guilty pleasure for those sites dedicated to niche singular topics/media that are obviously run by some autist with a fixation. Those can be charming and funny to look at (when they aren't overtly pornographic and depraved)

 

[YouDoNotHaveTheRight]

Pre Obama presidency piracy sites that google would list. It was truly an incredible time for sharing my things with my online pals. I would download a fucking car.

Also the old flash game sites were pretty awesome it was still slop, but preferable to the shit the kids have now days.

 

[Marc]

anonormale.in was a hell of a surprise to discover back when he was posting new experiments regularly. I don't know what happened to him; and can only imagine he died from some rectal misadventure.

 

[PandaChai]

Anyone else remember StumbleUpon? Found no end of experimental little flash games back in the day
Was how I first saw Sita Sings the Blues and heard of Gaba Kulka, too.

 

[David Brown]

Homestar Runner dot com

 

[Pokemon Conquistador]

There was once a lot of cool interactive art sites that, unfortunately, went tits up after Flash died. All I can find are Youtube walkthroughs:

99 ROOMS.com

The Hospital:

I enjoyed Acts of Gord as a time capsule of early 2000s Game Store culture. Spent a lot of time on dial-up internet reading this page:

https://www.actsofgord.com/index.php

 

[BrodyDaMan]

http://hekatestation.net

This is a very little known web 1.0 ARG/Art project. Though unlike all the others, the author has gone to a crazy extent for this, making giant symbols, writing really interesting journals, and setting up elaborate puzzles. There literally hundreds of pages of poems, short stories, maps, and supposed graphic novels. This 4chan thread has some good info, but from what I know most of the people looking into this have hit a wall. Maybe the discord server has something more but I'm not touching pozcord.

 

[Brenda Holiday]

I've wasted many hours hitting the random button on Wiby. If you like old webpages its great.

 

[PunkinMan]

https://cooltext.com/ a classic...
and

https://textanim.com/

does anyone know that one website that soyjak party uses to make dancing little characters the chinese one haha