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Some other Internet 'lore' rabbitholes: * SilvaGunner (also: Unregistered HyperCam 2): https://siivagunner.fandom.com/wiki/SiIvaGunner_Wiki https://siivagunner

Some other Internet 'lore' rabbitholes: * SilvaGunner (also: Unregistered HyperCam 2): https://siivagunner.fandom.com/wiki/SiIvaGunner_Wiki https://siivagunner.fandom.com/wiki/SiIvaGunner_Wiki * Pronounciation Book / horse_ebooks: https://77days.fandom.com/wiki/Pronunciation_Book_Conspiracy_Wiki https://77days.fandom.com/wiki/Pronunciation_Book_Conspiracy... * Cicada 3301: http://www.cicada3301.org http://www.cicada3301.org I'm cataloguing some of these here: https://href.cool/Stories/Folkmeme https://href.cool/Stories/Folkmeme Interested to hear about other favorites of yours!

kickscondor 5y ago
Also interested in stuff like the 847-page 'please will anyone speak to about anything to me' historical document. https://web.archive.org/web/20060324180631/http://www.moviecodec.com/topics/2420p1.html https://web.archive.org/web/20060324180631/http://www.moviec...
- dash2 5y ago
  What in hell is that????
  - nonbirithm 5y ago
    It was an Internet phenomenon caused by a quirk in Google's "I'm feeling lucky" ranking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_am_lonely_will_anyone_speak_to_me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_am_lonely_will_anyone_speak_... HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25532050 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25532050
geoah 5y ago
One of my favourites: > John Titor is a name used on several bulletin boards during 2000 and 2001 by a poster claiming to be an American military time traveler from 2036. Titor made numerous vague and specific predictions regarding calamitous events in 2004 and beyond, including a nuclear war. Inconsistencies in his explanations, the uniform inaccuracy of his predictions, and a private investigator's findings all led to the general impression that the entire episode was an elaborate hoax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor
- dragontamer 5y ago
  And of course, the anime based off of John Titor's legend: Steins;Gate (and other urban legends: such as miniature black holes are being created by "SERN" in the LHC: the obvious play on CERN in the real world). A pretty funny (and horrific!!) "what if" scenario if a lot of those legends happened to be true. I have my doubts if it has aged very well: a lot of the pull of that anime was that it felt very "in the now"... where "now" was ~2010 when it was released. Those urban legends / online conspiracy theories have a short lifespan, and I doubt that many people today would pick up on all of the stuff integrated into that story.
  - debo_ 5y ago
    The urban legends may have an expiry date, but "tuturuu~" is timeless.
    - dragontamer 5y ago
      That's true. A lot of the characters are very memorable and stand on their own, even without any context of the urban legends. Isn't that right Chrrrrris-TINA!!
    - TeMPOraL 5y ago
      Indeed. I imagine it also had a measurable impact on the sales of Dr Pepper. It took me a year to kick the habit of drinking it, which started after binge-watching Steins;Gate.
  - jacoblambda 5y ago
    I don't know if you've seen Steins;Gate 0 (the sequel?) to Steins;Gate (technically it happens in between the last and second to last episodes) but I say the series holds up about as well as it could have. There are some rough parts but it's a pretty solid series overall. Arguably the VN is a better portrayal but that gets into a whole other discussion.
  - saagarjha 5y ago
    I gave it a watch recently and while I certainly can't say how well it must have hit a decade ago, I found the overall experience to be enjoyable.
1_player 5y ago
LEMMiNO has a nice 18 minutes documentary and summary on Cicada 3301: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2O7blSSzpI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2O7blSSzpI -- Some "internet lore" off the top of my head: * Body builders try to figure out how many days are in a week, summary dramatised here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eECjjLNAOd4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eECjjLNAOd4 * Time Cube: https://timecube.2enp.com/ https://timecube.2enp.com/ -- EDIT: speaking of SilvaGunner, I've never heard this name before, I found two mentions of it on two unrelated YouTube videos in the past 3 hours. Incredible. Baader–Meinhof strikes again.
- kickscondor 5y ago
  These 'going deep' videos also bring to mind 'The Lasangacat Monologue': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAh9oLs67Cw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAh9oLs67Cw (Originally ran across this in HN comments btw)
- lukasdanin 5y ago
  lol thanks for the body builders link
- jyrkesh 5y ago
  Does anyone else remember EPIC 2014? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPIC_2014 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPIC_2014 I thought it was crazy how many of these turned out to be mostly right (even if the explicit stuff about mergers and lawsuits was wrong)
- jcun4128 5y ago
  Cicada 3301 is also a movie now released in 2021, I was surprised it had some basis in reality.
heavyset_go 5y ago
One of my favorite classics that I didn't see in your catalogue is Ted the Caver[1]. [1] https://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/ https://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/
codeulike 5y ago
Ulillillia https://web.archive.org/web/20161203081232/http://www.ulillillia.us/mainindex.shtml https://web.archive.org/web/20161203081232/http://www.ulilli... I bought his book back in the day. His main website is offline but he's still around and doing ok it seems
- tracedddd 5y ago
  Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters is a masterpiece, never read anything remotely like it.
  - codeulike 5y ago
    Its still available! https://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-legend-of-the-10-elemental-masters/7691432 https://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-legend-of-th... Review from the Lulu page: This book is nothing like anything you've ever read before. The author himself doesn't read at all, so the book basically reinvents the concept of the book, built on a background of video games and a serious obsession with numbers. If you are a very 'literate' reader and unable to read anything without seeing it against the conventions of a thousand years of literary tradition, you'll have trouble enjoying this book. If you can keep a very open mind, you'll get a rare glimpse to a world seen by a mind that doesn't work like most of ours. I would like to call this a gem of outsider literature, but the term suffers from association with lunacy and incompetence. Nick Smith is neither. He is very conscious of the peculiar workings of his mind, and follows confidently the path laid out by those peculiarities, and the result is something wonderful. Highly recommended! Review by Heikki Malkki
    - bartvk 5y ago
      Very curious. I've ordered it, thanks for the link.
mjsir911 5y ago
+1 on SiIvagunner (with a capital i!), the amount of variation they provide on a daily basis has quickly made them my go-to focus music.
dwighttk 5y ago
Ted’s Caving Page https://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/page1.html https://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/page1.html
barbs 5y ago
Saw this pop up on HN a while back: https://zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/2018/05/11/the-gig-economy-2/ https://zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/2018/05/11/the-gig-eco...
dysoco 5y ago
Maybe not as long but enough for a couple of nights: The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans: https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hunt-for-the-death-valley-germans/ https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hu...
tejohnso 5y ago
The Publius enigma (Pink Floyd) had me quite curious back in my BBS / Usenet days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publius_Enigma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publius_Enigma

kickscondor 5y ago

Also interested in stuff like the 847-page 'please will anyone speak to about anything to me' historical document. https://web.archive.org/web/20060324180631/http://www.moviecodec.com/topics/2420p1.html https://web.archive.org/web/20060324180631/http://www.moviec...

dash2 5y ago
What in hell is that????
- nonbirithm 5y ago
  It was an Internet phenomenon caused by a quirk in Google's "I'm feeling lucky" ranking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_am_lonely_will_anyone_speak_to_me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_am_lonely_will_anyone_speak_... HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25532050 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25532050

geoah 5y ago

One of my favourites: > John Titor is a name used on several bulletin boards during 2000 and 2001 by a poster claiming to be an American military time traveler from 2036. Titor made numerous vague and specific predictions regarding calamitous events in 2004 and beyond, including a nuclear war. Inconsistencies in his explanations, the uniform inaccuracy of his predictions, and a private investigator's findings all led to the general impression that the entire episode was an elaborate hoax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor

dragontamer 5y ago
And of course, the anime based off of John Titor's legend: Steins;Gate (and other urban legends: such as miniature black holes are being created by "SERN" in the LHC: the obvious play on CERN in the real world). A pretty funny (and horrific!!) "what if" scenario if a lot of those legends happened to be true. I have my doubts if it has aged very well: a lot of the pull of that anime was that it felt very "in the now"... where "now" was ~2010 when it was released. Those urban legends / online conspiracy theories have a short lifespan, and I doubt that many people today would pick up on all of the stuff integrated into that story.
- debo_ 5y ago
  The urban legends may have an expiry date, but "tuturuu~" is timeless.
  - dragontamer 5y ago
    That's true. A lot of the characters are very memorable and stand on their own, even without any context of the urban legends. Isn't that right Chrrrrris-TINA!!
  - TeMPOraL 5y ago
    Indeed. I imagine it also had a measurable impact on the sales of Dr Pepper. It took me a year to kick the habit of drinking it, which started after binge-watching Steins;Gate.
- jacoblambda 5y ago
  I don't know if you've seen Steins;Gate 0 (the sequel?) to Steins;Gate (technically it happens in between the last and second to last episodes) but I say the series holds up about as well as it could have. There are some rough parts but it's a pretty solid series overall. Arguably the VN is a better portrayal but that gets into a whole other discussion.
- saagarjha 5y ago
  I gave it a watch recently and while I certainly can't say how well it must have hit a decade ago, I found the overall experience to be enjoyable.

1_player 5y ago

LEMMiNO has a nice 18 minutes documentary and summary on Cicada 3301: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2O7blSSzpI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2O7blSSzpI -- Some "internet lore" off the top of my head: * Body builders try to figure out how many days are in a week, summary dramatised here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eECjjLNAOd4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eECjjLNAOd4 * Time Cube: https://timecube.2enp.com/ https://timecube.2enp.com/ -- EDIT: speaking of SilvaGunner, I've never heard this name before, I found two mentions of it on two unrelated YouTube videos in the past 3 hours. Incredible. Baader–Meinhof strikes again.

kickscondor 5y ago
These 'going deep' videos also bring to mind 'The Lasangacat Monologue': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAh9oLs67Cw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAh9oLs67Cw (Originally ran across this in HN comments btw)
lukasdanin 5y ago
lol thanks for the body builders link
jyrkesh 5y ago
Does anyone else remember EPIC 2014? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPIC_2014 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPIC_2014 I thought it was crazy how many of these turned out to be mostly right (even if the explicit stuff about mergers and lawsuits was wrong)
jcun4128 5y ago
Cicada 3301 is also a movie now released in 2021, I was surprised it had some basis in reality.

heavyset_go 5y ago

One of my favorite classics that I didn't see in your catalogue is Ted the Caver[1]. [1] https://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/ https://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/

codeulike 5y ago

Ulillillia https://web.archive.org/web/20161203081232/http://www.ulillillia.us/mainindex.shtml https://web.archive.org/web/20161203081232/http://www.ulilli... I bought his book back in the day. His main website is offline but he's still around and doing ok it seems

tracedddd 5y ago
Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters is a masterpiece, never read anything remotely like it.
- codeulike 5y ago
  Its still available! https://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-legend-of-the-10-elemental-masters/7691432 https://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-legend-of-th... Review from the Lulu page: This book is nothing like anything you've ever read before. The author himself doesn't read at all, so the book basically reinvents the concept of the book, built on a background of video games and a serious obsession with numbers. If you are a very 'literate' reader and unable to read anything without seeing it against the conventions of a thousand years of literary tradition, you'll have trouble enjoying this book. If you can keep a very open mind, you'll get a rare glimpse to a world seen by a mind that doesn't work like most of ours. I would like to call this a gem of outsider literature, but the term suffers from association with lunacy and incompetence. Nick Smith is neither. He is very conscious of the peculiar workings of his mind, and follows confidently the path laid out by those peculiarities, and the result is something wonderful. Highly recommended! Review by Heikki Malkki
  - bartvk 5y ago
    Very curious. I've ordered it, thanks for the link.

mjsir911 5y ago

+1 on SiIvagunner (with a capital i!), the amount of variation they provide on a daily basis has quickly made them my go-to focus music.

dwighttk 5y ago

Ted’s Caving Page https://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/page1.html https://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/page1.html

barbs 5y ago

Saw this pop up on HN a while back: https://zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/2018/05/11/the-gig-economy-2/ https://zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/2018/05/11/the-gig-eco...

dysoco 5y ago

Maybe not as long but enough for a couple of nights: The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans: https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hunt-for-the-death-valley-germans/ https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hu...

tejohnso 5y ago

The Publius enigma (Pink Floyd) had me quite curious back in my BBS / Usenet days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publius_Enigma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publius_Enigma