That thing you could’ve sworn you existed, remembered existed and how it has now turned into a great wonder of a chase to acquire again after so long. What is that thing for you?
Mine is discovering what music was played during an old internet radio show I still listen to was. The episodes I’m listening to are 21 years old now and for years I wondered what specific tracks were played on that show that I so want copies of. In one of the episodes, the host mentions that the backing music is from Digitally Imported now known as DI.FM.
However, that doesn’t do me any good since newer music is played now on that platform and with no hint or source telling me what tracks were played on that show in show notes or even word of mouth, I’ve no hope in tracking them down. So for so long, I’ve had to listen to this show’s episodes almost religiously, just because of the music that was played.
And my only hope now is tinkering with audio tools so I can figure a way to rip out the parts where the hosts are talking so it is just the music, then go around online asking people who’re more expert on the genre than I am to tell me, then find them and download them.
Okay so this isn’t internet related but I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately so I’m sharing.
I vividally remember going to a daycare as a young kid. I don’t remember much of the activities and playing, but I remember the nap room like it was yesterday. There was a mean old lady who was in charge of watching the kids nap, everyone had to nap at the same time and the other daycare staff would go out to lunch or something. Most of the kids had sleeping bags and stuffed animals, some had foam houses where they would sleep in. It was just a room with those gym mats on the floor, I remember just having a thin throw blanket so one of the kids who had a foam house would share his stuff with me.
I remember it so well because the old lady was cruel, she wouldn’t let kids go to the bathroom, I guess because she had to stay there and we couldn’t wander to the bathroom alone. Everyday there would be kids who peed themselves and it just got chalked up to kids wetting the bed.
Looking back on it was so weird. The issue, I asked my mom about it a few years back and she said I never went to daycare, we were always dirt poor and no way could she afford it, but she was also heavy on drugs at the time and there’s a lot of stuff she doesn’t remember. But I don’t see how I would’ve been in daycare, or why, she hasn’t worked since I was born, in that time period we were in and out of shelters or staying with her friends… I don’t know but I remember it and stand by it with my whole heart.
So I was telling my wife about this weird daycare and she suggested it was probably preschool. I thought about it for a bit but I remember preschool fairly well. It wasn’t like a real school, it was some rinky dink Catholic school thing at the church my grandma went too and I think they rotated teachers and my great aunt was one of them.
I do remember there was a billboard outside or very close to the daycare with a dog dressed like Peter pan or something of the sorts.
This place haunts me for some reason…
I’d love to find my old geo cities page but I’ve gone through the way back machine a few times and haven’t even gotten close to it. I can’t remember anything about it except that I think it was black and green (matrix style) design.
I used the same user name for ~ 20+ years and should have been able to track it down based off of that but I guess it got missed by the web crawlers.
A short film known as Spin, made in 2004.
It’s about a physicist who is bicycling down a hill and a car is in his path. The driver turns to see him and hits his brakes in the last moment. He skids over the hood, mostly unharmed and begins to ponder this.
If the driver hadn’t had the single neuron in his brain fire and trigger him to look again, he wouldn’t have hit his brakes and he would have collided with the flat side of the car, likely killing him.
He applies this idea to quantum physics and realizes that this is happening with every decision made by any living creature at every waking moment, creating countless split possibilities for all moments in time.
The final scene is very striking, showing a car approach an intersection. The view splits to show the car turning both left and right. The camera splits multiple more times to show the concept that you can always choose any path at any moment. Some are just more likely than others.
It showed on IFC back in 2005 or so, and I’ve tracked down some limited information on it, but it was shot on 35mm and I’ve found no real leads on watching it anywhere.
This is the very limited IMDB page for it.
An Evangelion AMV set to I’m Not Okay (I Promise) by My Chemical Romance. It was on YouTube and uploaded by a channel Ahhh123the8ball. But taken down for music reasons. Many years ago.
The Romantic. Really cool animated fantasy feature film from ~2009. For a while, the creator had it on Vimeo and even uploaded it to archive.org. Then he seemed to wipe every trace of it off the web. I can only find a shitty 320p version that someone must have had cached. It’s better than nothing, but I want to see it again in the full resolution that was once available.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110103034132/http://theromanticmovie.com/
All the music uploaded to cnet when you could upload your own music, circa 2005.
Oh, I uploaded some stuff there. A guy on the #slackware IRC-channel recognized my nick once😃. Someone’s also uploaded some of my songs on YouTube, which is really weird 😃
Dont know if this is similar or relevant but I was using an online free yt-dlp website and the schtick is you just paste the link for a video or playlist and it formats everything and runs yt-dlp on their server and people can download the files among all the other files of other people doing the same thing or god knows what but it was sort of fascinating.
Might try it out again just to people/file watch. I find these kind of community/public computer stuff absolutely fascinating
I lost my list of artists a few years ago T.T
There are a few things but I don’t think I can really talk about them here. So, I’ll just mention that there was this old browser game on Cartoon Network’s website that I remember playing when I was younger. It was based on Xiaolin Showdown and, while I don’t remember exactly what the gameplay was like, it was a fully 3D game and I think I remember it being a platformer. I have never been able to find this game or even any information about it existing, anywhere. I’ve even checked Bluemaxima’s Flashpoint and it’s not archived there either.
There’s this one Flash game that was basically only ever featured in one Flash game website (AFAIK), it played almost exactly like Swords and Sandals (it’s a clone that’s got nothing to do with the original series), but with this one, you could also choose to be an anthropomorphic animal and you start off with a fish for a weapon. It seemingly vanished from the face of earth, it’s probably not even in the Flashpoint Archive…
That said, I’ve found most Flash games I played back in the Flash heydey by complete accident (e.g. via YouTube recommendations), games like Chasm, Haunted House, The Farmer, Nightmares, The Adventures Series, except for this one for whatever reason.
I never really began a wild goose chase over this one, but it still lives in the back of my mind sometimes… But I did make it my mission to document flash games I used to play in case I want to ever revisit them lol.
I think it was called ”grossout” or something like that. It was really difficult iirc
Edit: Found it! https://www.miniplay.com/amp/game/gross-out
oh my fucking god thanks, this is literally it! all it took was one lemmy comment lol
Never thought I’d be the one finding someone’s white whale 🙈Happy to help!
Anyone remember the name of the flash game were you controlled a bike like you leveled it out and had to avoid rolling with any terrain, it was really hard, think may have had adventure in the title
I could only think of Happy Wheels lol. Quick searching led me to Cyclomaniacs and Adrenaline Challenge, not sure if these are even close
its Adrenaline Challenge thanks you!
a BGP highjack of one of the root DNS servers (I have the letter L in my head for some reason).
The story was that whoever took it kept responding the same as the real one and noone noticed for days. How anyone could get away with this is beyond me & it stinks of conspiracy theory but there was a very convincing looking article about it somewhere.I was just listening recently to a podcast that brought up a BGP highjack.
Some people involved with the Pirate Bay got into the BGP router for North Korea and made it look like they were hosted there for a while. Maybe you’re thinking of that?
Relevant clip from the episode as a youtube short. Full episode on Youtube. Episode page on the Darknet Diaries site, with download link, cited sources, and full transcript.
It looks like perhaps it was a myth.
According to root-servers.org:There are multiple documented instances of middleboxes interfering with root server system traffic. However, we believe this is the first documented case where routes to root server prefixes were hijacked using BGP.
Bummer.
Edit: This article describes an attack this year. I was thinking of an older one.
An account on a personal website or maybe a kayaking forum from around 2000: a sea kayaker described paddling with friends off the coast of Nanaimo, BC (I think). He wanted to paddle a bit more when the friends headed for shore. When he decided to join them, huge swells had started to come from the north, making it dangerous/impossible to ferry (paddle crosswise to the current) without getting broached and dumped. So he surfed down the swells, trying to angle toward shore as much as felt safe. He described riding a single swell for a long time, maybe multiple hours, before the sea calmed down enough for him to get to shore, now many miles south of where he started. I remember his description of combined terror and thrill: he could get flipped and–in the big sea–maybe never get rolled back up, just hanging onto his boat hoping for rescue, but here he was, surfing down the face of what seemed like an eternal wave, constantly at the edge of his ability to keep a line.
I’ve looked for that thing over a dozen times, spent maybe 20-30 hours searching over the past decade. No luck, yet.
2004 or 2005, there was some “low bandwidth gamer radio” that I used while gaming on dial up. I’ve looked everywhere for it, would probably never use it again since I’m on fiber instead of dial up now, but it just bugs me not being able to remember what it was called. I’ve found other services like that that would have been active at the time, but looking at their UI in screenshots or wayback machine snapshots, none of them look familiar.
2004 would be a bit late but it kind of reminds me of MPlayer.com. Here’s a video. The interface kind of looked like a radio, it also featured the first voice-chat I ever used, but everyone was on modem so it was unusably terrible.
An old ASMR video - not a particularly good one, but one I enjoyed anyway. It was about a futuristic themed space travel agency. The woman in it described various planets as viable options, and at one point offered a tour guide whose name was something like “Loop Hole”. I remember that because it was such an odd name. At some point in the video she receives a Facebook message (not part of the video, likely a mistake, but the notification sound is there anyway). The background was wood paneling, kinda looked like it was filmed in a trailer.
It was made private on YouTube years and years ago.
I also have an ASMR video I liked, with a man roleplaying as a tinkerer-scavenger, on a spacestation with a circular window behind him. Very high grade visuals & props. Now I don’t know if he took the video down or if its one of MANY videos that have been going AWOL on YouTube’s search algorithm, still existing on their database, still marked as public but not indexed. But I don’t remember who it was despite checking ASMRtists like PhoenicianSailor
A decade ago I watched a YouTube series about a space Opera musical. It was great, I can’t find it anymore. But because of your post I put all of the things I can remember about it into chatGpt and it found it
I give you: Stingray Sam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxfggiZLn60
This has lived in my head forever. And it totally disappeared off the internet for a long time
A weird flash video cartoon about a news report of a disease called crapola - a play on Ebola if I remember correctly. It was stupid but made me chuckle. In my head at this point it is way funnier than it likely actually was so I’ll likely be disappointed if I ever do find it again.
I watched this video of Jack Antonoff showing how he created one of his songs - I think it was “I want to get better” - and it was fascinating. I copied the link so I could show my wife when I got home, but when I went to use it I got a 404. Searched like crazy and was never able to find it.
