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.
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.
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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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…
yeah I remember that in 2000 or so. Was scarred for some time. Would not recommend
I was usually pretty good about avoiding those things, but that fucking sloth guy still haunts my nightmares.
But did you go to a suicide forest as part of a YouTube video? And then have to fake cry an apology?
I don’t think that tops the content on rotten.com
I wanna hike through the suicide forest, for nostalgia.
And everyone needs a good fake cry now and then.
Also ogrish.com at the peak of journalist decapitation videos.
What is outrageous about a dead body?
Electrocuted, cut in half, smashed… Once you see it, it can’t be unseen.
I remember only the post-mortem fingernails that weren’t growing. And was it Rotten that had 9/11 aftermath pics? Yikes.