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What are some good internet mysteries not many people know about? (lemmy.world)

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I want to add a couple of good ones I've found:

Jeff the Killer lost media: no one knows where the original Jeff The Killer image came from.

Mortis.com: old weird website

Also here's a good website on various obscure computer/Internet related oddities: https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/

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[-] kakes@sh.itjust.works 31 points 8 months ago

Do people still know about TimeCube these days? Not sure if that counts as a "mystery" per se, but it certainly has an air of the unknown.

[-] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 8 months ago

Clintons live here.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 11 points 8 months ago

The other similar case is 'the ball on a string' guy who went to different communitites including on reddit for years to promote his weird theory. IIRC his theory was that balls on strings of different sizes has their surface rotate at the similar speed if the central axis has a constant rotational speed too. Although many people tried to explain it to him, he insisted that larger ball therefore would spin like a Ferrari's wheel.

These cases are all depressive rather than mysterious.

[-] kakes@sh.itjust.works 11 points 8 months ago

Yeah, it's fun to laugh at these weird theories, but a bit depressing when you realize a lot of them come from a place of serious mental illness.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

There's that one celebrity who firmly believes that 1 * 1 is 2, or something equally bizarre...

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

It's probably fine as long as they don't try to push it onto others. Hope they don't.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

well tell us about it

is it that schizo guy with weird theories?

[-] kakes@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 months ago

Yep, you got it.

Down The Rabbit Hole did an episode about the guy.

Similarly, the Terry Davis episode is a wild ride.

[-] kakes@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 months ago

Also, here's a backup of TimeCube for anyone uninitiated: https://timecube.xyz/

[-] slowwooderrunsdeep@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I felt myself getting a brain tumor while reading that, I’ll have to come back to it later

[-] ChildEater@iusearchlinux.fyi 4 points 8 months ago

I was not prepared to remember the Time Cube when clicking on this thread...

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