I have no way of verifying any of this, but your writing makes me reminisce about the weirder parts of the internet about 15 years ago. It was a time with a wei

I have no way of verifying any of this, but your writing makes me reminisce about the weirder parts of the internet about 15 years ago. It was a time with a weird cross pollination between internet sleuths, fringe academia, x-files aestheticians and citizen journalists - before the waves of commercialisation would push these fringes out of sight and drown them in noise. I remember spartan looking websites with thorough and somewhat level headed journalism and research made by often highly educated hobbyists into the history of all kinds of stuff from CIA to Oluf Palme, from Göbekli Tepe to the backside of geopolitics. This is probably partly my mind playing tricks on me but what stood out was the depth of research, the common courtesy and the long well thought out replies people would write. People really had read the books, the docs, the papers and made up their minds from that. Today so much gets derailed into superficial identity or tribal politics, completely bonkers conspiracy-fiction ala Inforwars or psyop bullshit that is hard to attach any messenger to. Does anyone know where to get that hit of fringe without all of the hysteria and insanity today?