Yeah, those were good times, when the internet had a kinda crazy edge to it.
Liveleak, stile, fark and gorgor… Not social network friendly, but had a real personality.
Remember kids - Rick Rolling was the Safe for Work version of internet trolling…
All of these special places, lost - like tears in the rain.
fark
Fark is still around, but it’s barely a glimmer of what it used to be before it went downhill. I certainly understand if someone wasn’t aware it was still around, it’s been almost 20 years since the case could be made that it was an important player in the news aggregation category of websites.
smoke dot rotten dot com slash bird
I used that site as proxy verification for years. rotten.com accessible ? web filter is down.
Nah.
I simply did not go out of my way to look at unpleasant things, being fully aware that my mind was already quite capable of torturing me.
Anyone who has done training for heavy equipment or machinery has had to watch the training videos. Pre1990 stuff was pretty horrific. The 90s until decent CGI was a weird acting scene. Now CGI is just stupid. I learned far more from wpd industrial accidents than any of that and thank the 2000-2016 internet for keeping me alive. You have no idea, or, you might not believe what will kill you until you see it happen.
