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.
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Oh! I have one. And it’s actually very white.
Back on ebaumsworld circa 2003 there was this flash interactive thing. It wasn’t quite a game, it wasn’t quite a video because it required interaction to progress. It involved men in suits doing strange things. Boxing, one would yell into a bullhorn if you clicked on him, had a drum beat behind it, black and I think red line art on a white background.
Exactly the kind of thing search engines are bad at finding, and I’ve even looked on the wayback machine and no dice.
i forgot what it was, and now i dont even know what to search for but i knew i wanted to find a very specific thing online which i couldn’t, oh well.
Like others, I actually managed to find it thanks to this thread by double-checking before posting.
It’s a sketch/short film(?) called A Reasonable Request. It will stick with you, if you watch it, I promise.
There are several online tools that will try to name tracks based on sample audio.
Scottish comedian, TV/internet personality Limmy used to have a lot of Flash stuff on his website. I had it all saved but, for whatever reason, it went missing years ago. His website has been gone for a long time. Internet Archive has some of them but not a bunch of them. So much Flash stuff has been archived to no end but this stuff is just forgotten to the world.
This one porn where there was like three girls sitting next to each other with their legs spread over each other.
Think I saw it when I was like 14-16. I’m pretty sure it was little caprice too but honestly idk
2 psa’s that ran on cable on the early 90’s.
Both had some dumb tag ling like “would you risk your life to save them?” Dramatic music and snap cuts.
One had a little girl in a petal car on a road with an oncomming semi truck.
The second was a toddler walking away from it’s mother into a busy city street with oncomming traffic, and the mother (who was trying to unlock her car) freaking out once she noticed the kid was missing.
These have to exist somewhere.
Does one of them end with “Billy didn’t like the song on the radio, so he killed a little girl”?
There’s a a conspiracy theory involving a relatively popular celebrity from the early 2000s and some guy in Brazil takes full credit for the entire conspiracy theory and says he made it up just to prove how easy it would be to do. He’s even credited in the wikipedia article for it.
I’ve seen proof that he’s wrong, I’ve had bookmarks that would show he wasn’t the originator of the theory, but all the forums and sources that would be able to prove him wrong are defunct and offline. The timeline doesn’t even make sense for it to have originated when he said he came up with it, but I can’t prove it. He was like 6 years late. Every once in awhile, I still go searching to see if I can find something old enough to prove it.
Sometime between 2005 and 2008, someone from explosm (the cyanide and happiness guys) did a thing in the forums where they’d draw a comic panel and the forum decided what happened next by voting in the thread. It’d go on for a few days, and by the end the stories were always wildly off the rails. They did it ~3 times. Sometime later, they lost all of their forums, which included these threads. I’ve always wondered if there’s an archive of those things somewhere. They were absolutely legendary.
There was… I think it was an archive of old forum threads from a forum I don’t remember what it’s called. I stumbled onto it googling for DS action replay codes waaay back on the late 2000s. I remember a thread with a bunch of animal cross wild world codes, including one that supposedly let you walk on water. And codes for sm64 DS. One of which I remember was supposed to set your star count to 255 but using it permanently crashed the game when launching the save file.
There were also different threads such as a general one on things in games that scared you. There were some obvious things like the piano from sm64 and I thiiiink someone mentioned the redead from ocarina of time.
It’s oddly specific but I would love to go back and read through these again for nostalgia purposes. But I haven’t been able to find it.
Mine is a youtube video where girl shares that she used to do extreme self deprecating humor like “oh, i dropped this thing, i should just kill myself” but tried flipping completely to “oh, i dropped this thing, guess it’s the price of having such nice skin and grace.” She noticed how it helped her improve her relation with her friends and weed out the bad ones. This video was profoundly influential to me but i didn’t realize until later so i didn’t save it at the time.
There was a browser game I remember playing in ~2010 that was basically a zoo tycoon game where you unlocked new animals over time
Nostalgically, I wanted to play it a little while bac,k but I’m sure you can imagine why searching “browser zoo game” didn’t exactly help me much
So I remember coming across this basic webpage that was just a song playing on loop with an animation in the center.
The song was this weird electronic loop with samples on top: baby coos, a few lines from some female rapper, various bloopy sounds. It changed a bunch.
The animation looked like old 90s 3d web animations, very pixelated. The object would rock back and forth, and periodically changed into a different object: an old CRT monitor, a dolphin, just random stuff.
The whole thing had a very Windows 98 sorta vibe, I think the name looked like a file name. That was the whole thing though, just this animation and music loop.
It was maybe 15 years ago. The song was pretty catchy, so every once in a while I try to find it, but I can’t even begin to think of how to search this.
Kind of reminds me of zombo.com but not quite
Off the top of my head I’d say a poem called “an ode to what is now, effectively, stairs” about shutdown escalators in an abandoned mall. I’ve had a search around for it a couple of times, including on the forum that I’m pretty sure I saw it on - the Agora Road Macintosh Cafe (I think this has since become a right-wing cesspool, it was last time I was there, so not a recommendation), but no luck :/ This was only like 7 years ago, so I’m almost impressed at how quickly it’s disappeared.
There is a pretty famous Mitch Hedburg bit about that same exact thing. People used to quote his jokes a lot online. I wonder if, instead of a poem, that was what you read.
When I was a young teen, I loved collecting MIDIs because I didn’t have a good way of getting music in other formats–I still had dial up, and didn’t know about other methods. Plus I mostly enjoyed songs from video games. There was one I found that had a very enchanting melody and I loved it to death. Kept it on its own special floppy disk. Inevitably, it got lost and I never could remember the name of the song or what game it came from. I did search but not knowing either of those things, and it being only a melody with no lyrics, made it difficult to find. Then, one day, while listening on Spotify, it just magically appeared.
Sora from Escaflowne :)
