Not to mention the granddaddy of link pranks, Goatse. This excerpt from Wikipedia gives a nice little window info how the web operated back then:
The goatse.cx image has been used by website authors to discourage other sites from hot-linking to them. By replacing the hot-linked image with an embarrassing image when hot-linking has been discovered, an unsubtle message is sent to the offending website’s operators, visible to all who view the web page in question. In 2007, Wired.com hot-linked to another site in an article about the “sexiest geeks of 2007”; the site subsequently swapped the hot-linked image with one from goatse.cx.
It wasn’t that early but early enough that a) a major news site hotlinked an image from some random website and b) that website redirected the image to point at a sexually explicit shock image without anyone panicking.
That still has early Internet energy to it. Not quite Mahir Çağrı energy but still markedly different from today’s relatively sanitized interactions.
I remember before it was called rotten.com, it was originally called thecreepingeyemorgue.com. That doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue very well though…
In the 90s, I remember going to rotten.com and seeing dead bodies. Kids these days don’t know about the wild west world web.
But did you go to a suicide forest as part of a YouTube video? And then have to fake cry an apology?
I wanna hike through the suicide forest, for nostalgia.
And everyone needs a good fake cry now and then.
In Tombstone, when Wyatt threatens to turn that dude’s head into a canoe? I saw that exact pic on rotten.com. Looked like: U
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Not to mention the granddaddy of link pranks, Goatse. This excerpt from Wikipedia gives a nice little window info how the web operated back then:
Man, I miss the early Internet.
2007 was early internet???
It wasn’t that early but early enough that a) a major news site hotlinked an image from some random website and b) that website redirected the image to point at a sexually explicit shock image without anyone panicking.
That still has early Internet energy to it. Not quite Mahir Çağrı energy but still markedly different from today’s relatively sanitized interactions.
yeah I remember that in 2000 or so. Was scarred for some time. Would not recommend
I remember before it was called rotten.com, it was originally called thecreepingeyemorgue.com. That doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue very well though…
What is outrageous about a dead body?
Electrocuted, cut in half, smashed… Once you see it, it can’t be unseen.