A.K.A. Exploring the depths of the web.
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If, like me, you've often been incredibly bored on those cold grey days on some nameless day in the middle of winter,w ith the only source of interest being your computer you've poked around the darker corners of the web looking for cool/funny/strange/secret stuff to help pass the time a little quicker.
It's amazing what you can find, from the oldest pages of the internet:
http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/Link.html
To the more weirder/funnier end of the spectrum:
www.zombo.com
To the stranger, more confusing elements of the web:
Many of which are courtesy of Jodi.
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Then there's other parts of the web - the more... worrying? There's the famous convicted sex offender and general pedophile who uploads videos to Youtube on a regular basis:
And other strange Youtube accounts/videos, a clear indication that certain people, given the freedom of anonymity/self expression to a large audience, will upload the most personal parts of their lives with no hindrance.
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But, above all the oddities you can find here on the internet, indexed by Google, there's strange places to 'visit' beneath the surface:
With the help of something like TOR
Now be warned, I've been there, and this is where things get VERY weird - Be EXTREMELY CAREFUL if you plan on going there - needless to say, I've not even scratched the surface, and purposely avoided specific links and sites for the sake of legality and sheer human common sense.
But simply put there are links that are advertised to lead you to private, uncontrolled, unregulated and 'closed' sites for anything ranging from anonymous drug market places like SilkRoad to more worrying domains that advertise assassination, hitmen, weird/fucked up pornography, government information, banned images/videos/texts, illegal animal trade, hacking groups, communities and P2P/FTP hubs.
From a certain perspective, this kind of thing fascinates me - the internet is weird - fucking weird - but wonderful in some ways too.
Plus, the idea that lost government articles, papers, strange computer programs/services, weird strings of code, documents, reports and other strange/secretive pieces of information are viewable with a bit of digging excites me - I'm not sure why.
Above all, I always stay safe, being very careful not to break any laws, and steering well clear of of suspicious links/promises, but otherwise I just find it fun to dig from time to time.
So that's my little map of the weirdness of the internet, but what about you GAF? What's the strangest place you've been (keep it clean, and no "neogaf.com" posts y'all).
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If, like me, you've often been incredibly bored on those cold grey days on some nameless day in the middle of winter,w ith the only source of interest being your computer you've poked around the darker corners of the web looking for cool/funny/strange/secret stuff to help pass the time a little quicker.
It's amazing what you can find, from the oldest pages of the internet:
http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/Link.html
To the more weirder/funnier end of the spectrum:
www.zombo.com
To the stranger, more confusing elements of the web:
[*]http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org
[*]http://g33con.com
[*] http://globalmove.us
[*] http://map.jodi.org
[*] http://404.jodi.org/ae/
[*] http://text.jodi.org
[*] http://maxpaynecheatsonly.jodi.org/mp2b34.html
Many of which are courtesy of Jodi.
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Then there's other parts of the web - the more... worrying? There's the famous convicted sex offender and general pedophile who uploads videos to Youtube on a regular basis:
And other strange Youtube accounts/videos, a clear indication that certain people, given the freedom of anonymity/self expression to a large audience, will upload the most personal parts of their lives with no hindrance.
________________________________________________________________________________
But, above all the oddities you can find here on the internet, indexed by Google, there's strange places to 'visit' beneath the surface:
With the help of something like TOR
Now be warned, I've been there, and this is where things get VERY weird - Be EXTREMELY CAREFUL if you plan on going there - needless to say, I've not even scratched the surface, and purposely avoided specific links and sites for the sake of legality and sheer human common sense.
But simply put there are links that are advertised to lead you to private, uncontrolled, unregulated and 'closed' sites for anything ranging from anonymous drug market places like SilkRoad to more worrying domains that advertise assassination, hitmen, weird/fucked up pornography, government information, banned images/videos/texts, illegal animal trade, hacking groups, communities and P2P/FTP hubs.
From a certain perspective, this kind of thing fascinates me - the internet is weird - fucking weird - but wonderful in some ways too.
Plus, the idea that lost government articles, papers, strange computer programs/services, weird strings of code, documents, reports and other strange/secretive pieces of information are viewable with a bit of digging excites me - I'm not sure why.
Above all, I always stay safe, being very careful not to break any laws, and steering well clear of of suspicious links/promises, but otherwise I just find it fun to dig from time to time.
So that's my little map of the weirdness of the internet, but what about you GAF? What's the strangest place you've been (keep it clean, and no "neogaf.com" posts y'all).
