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this thread is probably going to reference NSFW things frequently, don't post porn but also probably don't read at work in the olden days of the internet, people were blessed with both anonymity and complete freedom. they used this freedom very poorly, and it attracted some of the absolute weirdest motherfuckers in human history to raise their freak flag unfiltered for all to witness. this recently came up in the greatest sagas thread, to give an idea (and some of my favorites): Rev. Bleech_ posted:I...never heard of this. But cake fartin' Steve was almost certainly the dude who wouldn't stop posting his dumb fantasy of a woman farting on a cake and melting the icing before making him eat it all over the alt.music.* hierarchy WeedlordGoku69 posted:yeah, I think I'm vaguely familiar with that weirdo, used to hear him mentioned in the same breath as the guy who wanted to be turned into a statue and then covered in hot grits by Natalie Portman The Saddest Rhino posted:I hope that's real and not turned out to be a joke like the Roy orbinson in cling film fetishist Rev. Bleech_ posted:Man one could do an entire book on Usenet weirdos from that time. Like Stan and the Sequencers, the dude who blathered on about how every album ever made was made to synch to certain movies and fabulous unspecified secrets were yours if you connected all the dots and helped him solve the mystery. Weird Al himself posted in his own newsgroup to tell him to go the gently caress away. if you ever encountered someone who was just weird as hell like this, post your favorite experiences!
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I am not 100% sure this really counts. But I think it kinda fits internet weirdo, even though it was an art project. But Shaye Saint John https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGodkjpM-IU
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There used to be a site called Crush! Yiff! Destroy! that catalogued a bunch of the excesses of the very earliest 90s furry fandom, and that was a fun read. It predated "cringe" sites like Encyclopedia Dramatica and whatever spawned out of that. Mostly I remember the guy who stalked Tress MacNeille, who had been the voice of Babs Bunny from Tiny Toons. I think he went by Quozl?
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Oct 16, 2020 07:00
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The day Time Cube finally went down and only existed as archives was the end of an internet era.
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Prof. Alexander Abian, PhD of Iowa State's math department used to post on usenet, proposing we destroy the Moon. He thought it would solve a lot of environmental problems. You don't seem to get pure cranks like that anymore.
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Heath posted:There used to be a site called Crush! Yiff! Destroy! that catalogued a bunch of the excesses of the very earliest 90s furry fandom, and that was a fun read. It predated "cringe" sites like Encyclopedia Dramatica and whatever spawned out of that. Mostly I remember the guy who stalked Tress MacNeille, who had been the voice of Babs Bunny from Tiny Toons. I think he went by Quozl? that was the first thing that came to mind when I read the thread title http://unpromisedone.blogspot.com/2012/11/meet-dennis-quozl-falk-man-who-got-tiny.html?m=1
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In 1995 there was a guy that kept a proto-blog called "The Loser Living Upstairs" that followed the daily life of his noisy upstairs neighbor in bizarre detail. He kept blogging after the upstairs neighbor moved out and kept a new journal called "The Life and Times of a 41 year-old virgin." It was as sad as it sounds. His Tripod(!) page is still available. http://losernet.tripod.com/chez.html He is still blogging and still having issues. It must be one of the longest continuous running blogs in existence. https://oversizedcranium2.blogspot.com/ https://exodusfootnotes.blogspot.com/
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Fredrik Knudsen's Down the Rabbit Hole series documents some of these kinds of people, including the wisest man on Earth, Gene Ray (aka. Time Cube guy).
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http://pixyland.org/peterpan/ 
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This thread has potential, so I'm sticking it for a bit.
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I remember there being a blog long ago by a woman claiming that she was the secret creative force behind like half of modern pop culture and the direct inspiration to the rest. Anyone know what it was/is called?
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System Metternich posted:I remember there being a blog long ago by a woman claiming that she was the secret creative force behind like half of modern pop culture and the direct inspiration to the rest. Anyone know what it was/is called? Amy Lee! There's an F Plus episode about her.
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I kinda remember something from a very long time ago, but I don't know how to go about finding it again. It was a series of posts on, I think, blogger.com or one of those free, super-easy blog hosting sites, and it presented itself as (I think) some sort of series of rules expansions for the old TSR Marvel Super-Heroes RPG, but every post very quickly went off the rails and the author went from talking about Galactus to trying to apply MSH RPG rules to every aspect of what seemed to be a very strange and troubled life.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge7mozA-ptI This is my oldest internet memory outside of clicking on Diddy Kong's hat to get into the secret area of Nintendo Power on AOL,
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I hope that kid got a girlfriend Just remembered Major Cagri, a Turkish guy with a website about himself and his travels, it read basically like a dating ad in broken English with odd non-sequiturs. tbh he was probably the direct inspiration for Borat. Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20020726141104/http://www.istanbul.tc/mahir/mahir/ At some point this song showed up on mp3.com and it still makes me laugh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbjY3PgVzlI I don't think anyone knows who made it Carthag Tuek has a new favorite as of 23:08 on Nov 4, 2020 |
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Quid posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge7mozA-ptI That kid turned out gay I think. Also he got doxxed and harassed by other weirdos Heres a source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgWDCq1Gmu4 Violet_Sky has a new favorite as of 01:07 on Nov 5, 2020 |
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Tron Guy is a great earlier internet thing. I remember visiting his website and having to wait and wait while the pictures loaded over 56k. Does anyone remember Weird Links? The webmaster was on disability and/or had AIDS and had a crazy personal life.
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Who remembers this rear end in a top hat? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qX8I8Khjh0
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I forget the name of some crank that got ripped off by a bunch of early internet sites and made his own site, and it wasn't long before the forums became a bigger destination, and he became even more of a crank and barely did anything on his own site. I guess he eventually got outed as an abusive rear end in a top hat and got bought out of his own site.
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Saucer Crab posted:I forget the name of some crank that got ripped off by a bunch of early internet sites and made his own site, and it wasn't long before the forums became a bigger destination, and he became even more of a crank and barely did anything on his own site. I guess he eventually got outed as an abusive rear end in a top hat and got bought out of his own site. Rick something.
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I drew Gonterman some art back like twenty years ago and he somehow found my AIM username and IMd me so fuckin fast. Weirder, a genuine fan of his IMd me at the same time all excited. I'm still not sure if that fan was just Gonterman also. It seems more likely than him having a real fan and also the coincidental timing. But, why?? I wish I had logs of those convos, but they probably weren't interesting. I remember them being awkward and stilted. Gonterman's a big genuine incel now, surprising no one.
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Saucer Crab posted:I forget the name of some crank that got ripped off by a bunch of early internet sites and made his own site, and it wasn't long before the forums became a bigger destination, and he became even more of a crank and barely did anything on his own site. I guess he eventually got outed as an abusive rear end in a top hat and got bought out of his own site. I'm glad someone beat me to making this post.
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Alex Chiu's site for true immortality still exists. http://realimmortality.com/Synergy/main.htm
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Amy Lee! There's an F Plus episode about her. That was it, thanks! She stopped updating her blog in 2011, I wonder what became of her
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There was a guy on usenet who was like loving Beetlejuice. Bill Palmer If you spoke his name, he would appear, and then never ever go away, at great length.
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Not sure how popular she actually was, but there was a website/blog ran by a young woman who kept saying she wanted to amputate both her hands and replace them with #18 stainless steel hooks, or something to that effect.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Not sure how popular she actually was, but there was a website/blog ran by a young woman who kept saying she wanted to amputate both her hands and replace them with #18 stainless steel hooks, or something to that effect. She was in an old F Plus episode (I want to say the 100th). She was obsessed with amputees and seemed like she just wanted to copy whatever prosthetics the last amputee she saw had.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Not sure how popular she actually was, but there was a website/blog ran by a young woman who kept saying she wanted to amputate both her hands and replace them with #18 stainless steel hooks, or something to that effect. Carole the DBE amputee and her "Beautiful twin Dorrance #5 stainless steel hooks!" http://web.archive.org/web/20010330191553/http://www.geocities.com/FashionAvenue/6914/CONTENTS.html Here's a reddit thread with a lot more info. https://www.reddit.com/r/nonmurdermysteries/comments/cc2iy5/carole_wants_to_become_a_real_dbe_amputee_can/
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I was a big alt.usenet.kooks person. I think SOLLOG was one of my favorites: he was a prophet in Philadelphia and this 1997 article sums him up beautifully.
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Who was the guy who used to post here, and all over the internet, about the CIA beaming messages into his brain via microwave?
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wheatpuppy posted:Who was the guy who used to post here, and all over the internet, about the CIA beaming messages into his brain via microwave? "the" guy
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CannonFodder posted:Alex Chiu's site for true immortality still exists. http://realimmortality.com/Synergy/main.htm
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wheatpuppy posted:Who was the guy who used to post here, and all over the internet, about the CIA beaming messages into his brain via microwave? :kyoon: ? edit: when did they remove the smilie?
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He lives in Tampa and one time I saw him buying fish food at Walmart. He also used to go to The Castle in ybor a lot and you can see him at the ren festival if you're lucky. He's a nice guy but as weird as you'd think
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I remember a site where this English guy had a German girlfriend and the entire site was just a list of all the things they would argue about.
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Oxphocker posted:I remember a site where this English guy had a German girlfriend and the entire site was just a list of all the things they would argue about. He even adapted it into a book.
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oh god remember tucker max? total rear end in a top hat fratbro law student who wrote stdh* stories about getting drunk and sexually harassing women on his eponymous website and got a movie deal. when the movie totally flopped, it was everybody elses' mistake * i mean the harassment surely happened, but the surrounding hi-larious escapades probably not
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Carthag Tuek posted:oh god remember tucker max? I remember reading "Tardblog", the website of some special ed teacher that had some vague connection with him.
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