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My guess is because the image didn’t exist in other archives and it’s a very obscure site so why would someone have seen that? More probable they stumbled on so

My guess is because the image didn’t exist in other archives and it’s a very obscure site so why would someone have seen that? More probable they stumbled on something random like this in the wild or on Internet Archive?

dooglius 2y ago
Why would someone have been looking at an very obscure site on the Internet Archive? Why is that more likely than looking at it on the web?
- sparky_z 2y ago
  Because the obscure site had not existed for years when the copypasta first appeared. So someone would have had to have found that obscure site and then saved the image for years before using it. Honestly, both options (website or archive) sound pretty unlikely to me. I'm wondering if instead it was a third option: maybe the originator of the copypasta was the person who originally took the photo. It would make sense for them to remember the event and go pull a good image out of their photo folder.
  - b112 2y ago
    Or a fourth. The world is filled with a myriad of people, and we all have weird hobbies and drives. I can see an 'artistic type' of person, seeing an image and thinking "Oh, that's grungy" or some other label to the room/etc. And "collecting" it. EG, saving it. Some people will stare at live ants for hours, others collect rocks. I can imagine a person out of billions, liking "weird, musty rooms" or some such. But who knows, heh.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago
  They have an index of all images. Maybe someone picked a random image (I don't see a Random button, but one could exist?) or happened to look at this index the day it was added, or just clicked through to 2002 looking for something nostalgic https://archive.org/details/image https://archive.org/details/image
  - msephton 2y ago
    The discussion is about Wayback Machine rather than the link you suggest.

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My guess is because the image didn’t exist in other archives and it’s a very obscure site so why would someone have seen that? More probable they stumbled on so

by jsjohnst 2y ago

dooglius 2y ago
Why would someone have been looking at an very obscure site on the Internet Archive? Why is that more likely than looking at it on the web?
- sparky_z 2y ago
  Because the obscure site had not existed for years when the copypasta first appeared. So someone would have had to have found that obscure site and then saved the image for years before using it. Honestly, both options (website or archive) sound pretty unlikely to me. I'm wondering if instead it was a third option: maybe the originator of the copypasta was the person who originally took the photo. It would make sense for them to remember the event and go pull a good image out of their photo folder.
  - b112 2y ago
    Or a fourth. The world is filled with a myriad of people, and we all have weird hobbies and drives. I can see an 'artistic type' of person, seeing an image and thinking "Oh, that's grungy" or some other label to the room/etc. And "collecting" it. EG, saving it. Some people will stare at live ants for hours, others collect rocks. I can imagine a person out of billions, liking "weird, musty rooms" or some such. But who knows, heh.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago
  They have an index of all images. Maybe someone picked a random image (I don't see a Random button, but one could exist?) or happened to look at this index the day it was added, or just clicked through to 2002 looking for something nostalgic https://archive.org/details/image https://archive.org/details/image
  - msephton 2y ago
    The discussion is about Wayback Machine rather than the link you suggest.