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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
You're a Daisy if you do
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.
Also ogrish.com at the peak of journalist decapitation videos.
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.
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.