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[-] arandomthought@sh.itjust.works 110 points 3 weeks ago

Welcome to the internet!
Have a look around...

[-] yakko@feddit.uk 20 points 3 weeks ago

The laugh Bo gave in that track made my skin crawl, I'll never forget it

[-] Caesium@lemmy.world 49 points 3 weeks ago

everyday I'm thankful I never let curiosity get to the better of me as a kid on the internet

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 35 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I used 4Chan for a while as a kid. From what I've heard it's more tame now, but I saw some stuff no person should ever see. I think it helped shape me as a person though, largely in a good way. It helped me form opinions about death and killing that I think are good.

Personally, I think people should have to watch some combat footage before they vote. Your vote can send people to go kill other people. If you don't know what that looks like, maybe your opinion on the matter shouldn't be worth as much. Until you see someone dying (actually dying, not hollywood dying), I don't think you should be allowed to make decisions about killing people.

[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 9 points 3 weeks ago

Can't understand reality without seeing the bad.

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[-] inari@piefed.zip 31 points 3 weeks ago

Oof, I'm sorry, that's rough. Flash games?

[-] hesh@quokk.au 36 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] TehBamski@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago
[-] inari@piefed.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago

I remember it! Macromedia Flash sucked ass.

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

No, Flash was a proprietary platform for animated content before the modern web standards. You're thinking of the MP3 player.

Edit: Clearly a poor attempt at setting up someone to reply with "no you're thinking of Winamp, ..."

[-] Dojan@pawb.social 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I’m not sure if you’re being funny and I’m not getting it. Macromedia were the original developers of various web products. Flash and Dreamweaver for example. They were acquired by Adobe and it was renamed to Adobe Flash.

They’re talking about the same Flash you are.

Flash itself was junk. People made some fantastic things with it, though.

[-] inari@piefed.zip 5 points 3 weeks ago

Was there an MP3 player named Flash? TIL

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[-] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 3 weeks ago

Goatse

Tubgirl

Lemon party

Yeah, those were simpler times.

[-] Rooskie91@discuss.online 6 points 3 weeks ago

I had to explain to a younger person what Goatse was the other day. They don't even know what they missed out on.

[-] 0x0@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 weeks ago

Goatse is still alive and well in Mexico but this community bans NSFW.

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[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

I never saw tubgirl but the others were drowned out when idk if it was 4chan rando or someone I was arguing with or something but they posted a picture of what looked like kid about my age at the time cooked like a turkey with the white foot cover things on a big platter on a big dining table and the text you're next. That shit haunted me for like 20 years.

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[-] NullPointerException@lemmy.ca 26 points 3 weeks ago

If I could go back, I’d pass on the beheading. Damn morbid curiosity.

[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 26 points 3 weeks ago

I wouldn't. I didn't enjoy them, but they seemed important. A brief glimpse into extreme reality.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah. Really brings home how fucked up war and religious fanaticism is.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 8 points 3 weeks ago

It certainly broke your bubble when you saw it.

[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I was an adult when that was going around. I decided I wasn't that curious. I've never seen 'two girls one cup' either. I don't regret my choice.

Edit: I also didn't need to see the Charlie Kirk murder, either.

[-] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

I made it through adolescence without seeing the two girls one cup video. It was a thing to try and trick your buddies into watching it. It's an odd point of pride for me I dodged that particular bullet.

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[-] Gloomy@mander.xyz 8 points 3 weeks ago

I've seen a beheading by some russian nazis in like 2010. As a teenager (around that time) i used to look up rotten.com and facesofdeath a fair bit. A lot i forgot, but some pictures will stay with me until i die. Sounds worse than it is, they just pop up from time to time.

Recently i searched for random telegram chanells because i was bored and found some israeli and islamic chanells that had a lot of execution and some mild gore content. That dosn't do anything with me emotionalie, i am keenly aware of the fact that humans murder and kill their own and other species all the time.

Still haven't seen two girls and one cup. Not even sure what its about, i think it's some kink stuff involving bodily fluids? I don't see any benefit in watching it. The gore stuff at least is a lesson about reality that people from my part of the world aren't exposed to, at least for now. In a way it helps to stay grounded on how fucked up live is for many people and creatures on this planet, something that is far to easy to forget when living in the 'sanitized' west.

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[-] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 5 points 3 weeks ago

Okay that last one is a dramatic masterpiece. You gotta.

2g1c and beheadings sre missable, but kirk's a classic, and not particularly gruesome.

[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 6 points 3 weeks ago

You gotta.

I really don't. I can't stand the bloke, but I don't need to see that.

[-] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 6 points 3 weeks ago

Its not the death.

Its about who he was and exactly what he was saying when he died exactly the way he died. Like a clip that catches his last line.

If hed been blown up while buying a pack of cigarettes it wouldnt have been special.

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[-] RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 weeks ago
[-] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 weeks ago

I somehow managed to avoid the really heinous stuff like beheadings, but I do remember a lot of the classic shock websites.

Apparently the cock from MeatSpin belonged to a trans woman porn star. So that's fun, I hope she's doing well, whoever she is.

[-] kazerniel@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

my middle school classmates were browsing rotten.com on the school computers in the breaks, so I've seen at least one drowned corpse when passing by 🤢

[-] TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 15 points 3 weeks ago

Lots of people talking about beheadings, but the video that I can never unwatch was of a woman in a blank walled room facing the camera and getting unceremoniously shot in the head with a revolver. I've no idea if it was real or not, but the lack of, for want of a better word, "spectacle" makes me think it was.

I don't want to look it up again to find out but if anyone knows for sure...

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

I saw a lot of unseeable things on the internet, thanks to decades of war and sites like Ogrish. But snuff clips I noped the hell out of.

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[-] Digit@lemmy.wtf 14 points 3 weeks ago

Analogue youth, digital teens, here.

Simpler times... when we'd watch Jimmy Savile on TV, and were told he was a beloved children's entertainer. O_O

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[-] YellowParenti@lemmy.wtf 12 points 3 weeks ago

Gotta make a move to a town that's right for me Town to keep me movin', keep me groovin' with some energy

I dont know how i did it as a kid. Teenagers are psychopaths I guess.

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[-] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 weeks ago

itch.io has so many really cool free games that can be played in your browser. Neocities exists. So many cool communities exist on the internet

just because most of the most popular websites are terrible doesnt mean cool sites dont exist

[-] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah, its the same as old man saying there's no good music.

There's not much corporately popular shoved in your face good music. But now is literally the golden age of all media, before we are all restricted from enjoying any of it without being a criminal or paying subscription fees just to log into my PC. I give it 5 or 8 years . they're already coming for emulation because people are sick of shitty new games.

You can still find the good of the internet. Use webrings, kagi small web search, use your bookmarks, neocities, Its still out there.

The fediverse is a big one too

The real issue is all your normie friends have no idea of this or are terrified of anything that isnt corponet, so they will not partake in ye olden web. But thats OK.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

I saw war crimes and decided war was bad. Guess who decided that we shouldn't be able to see war crimes?

[-] RedFrank24@piefed.social 11 points 3 weeks ago

Ah yes I remember "three guys one hammer" which was a video of three Ukrainian serial killers stabbing a guy in the eye and repeatedly in the stomach with a screwdriver and then beating him to death with a hammer.

Apparently one of the killers got out of prison in 2019. I imagine he's probably dead by now, given that he was most likely conscripted.

[-] velma 9 points 3 weeks ago

Last Podcast on the Left recently did a series on those guys. Unfortunately “three guys one hammer” was not a stand alone event.

[-] Rooskie91@discuss.online 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

[Last Podcast On The Left] Episode 656: The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs Part I - Serial Spree 🅴 https://podcastaddict.com/last-podcast-on-the-left/episode/219151354 via @PodcastAddict

For the curious

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[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] tino@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I was moderator on an online video platform at the time. I arrived to work early, get my coffee and went to my desk for my morning empty-the-queue-list routine... spitted my coffee, maybe puked a little... and moved on with my tasks!

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Saw some lemons making party, some girls with a cup definitely not doing the cup song and a few leaks live, but otherwise it was a great time.

[-] farek@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

When I was a kid I saw a video of guy being high on drugs and cutting his own dick off. Was the best demonstration of that drugs are bad 😅

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[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

I'm fairly sure I saw the same beheading video in 2003. I was convinced it was real. My one friend was convinced it was fake. Our other friend couldn't decide.

Now, with hindsight, I'm STILL convinced it was real, but I'm wondering if what I saw was an early version of what would later become ISIS.

ISIS didn't exist formally yet in 2003, but it's not like they just came from nowhere. I'm fairly confident that I saw an early version of it with that beheading video.

[-] TehBamski@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Remember, the Taliban were prominent back then. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban

edit: grammar

[-] Sphks@jlai.lu 6 points 3 weeks ago
[-] inari@piefed.zip 9 points 3 weeks ago

Wikipedia's comprehensiveness always amazes me

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[-] mech@feddit.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

I'm still traumatized from some of those MySpace pages.

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