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“ However the original, anonymous user stumbled onto this photograph, it appears it was taken from either the Wayback directly, or the Wayback Machine crawled t
by WantonQuantum 2y ago
“ However the original, anonymous user stumbled onto this photograph, it appears it was taken from either the Wayback directly, or the Wayback Machine crawled the same site the user had found, and kept that webpage’s preservation for over 20 years.”
Something people used to do is to use search engines to find images with file names that indicate they were from a digital camera. You could find all sorts of interesting photos that people had uploaded to share with their friends not realising that search engines would index them.
- houseplant 2y agoI recall a thread years and years ago about a guy who found an abandoned digital camera in the woods, only to take it home and extract the photos from its SD card, and as everyone poured over them, they began noticing odd figures in the trees and so on. That's the kind of fun group activity I love about these mysterious things
- throwaway2046 2y agoGot a link to those photos? Sounds like an interesting story, whether true or not.
- Loughla 2y agoYeah where's that link? That sounds fun.
- dither8 2y agoYou can actually do this with YouTube. By search for MOV001 etc. Mental Outlaw did a video demonstrating this a while ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Ho_KDPi_U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Ho_KDPi_U
- PUSH_AX 2y agoGood luck “searching” for anything on YouTube in 2024..
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- nextaccountic 2y agoIt's 2024 and need a search engine that doesn't suck
- password4321 2y agohttp://astronaut.io/ http://astronaut.io/ - YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views 2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20432772 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20432772 2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13413225 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13413225
- kubanczyk 2y agoI expected dumb gameplays and influencers. Somehow zero of those. Almost all the random samples have been immensely interesting.
- firecall 2y agoThere is a subreddit for Open Directories!
- mikae1 2y agoThere's an even more fitting (inactive) subreddit for filename searches here: https://old.reddit.com/r/IMGXXXX/ https://old.reddit.com/r/IMGXXXX/ Here's a list of prefixes to search for: IMG XXXX MVI XXXX MOV XXXX 100 XXXX DSC XXXX SAM XXXX HDV XXXX 102APPLE IMG XXXX FILEXXXX GOPRXXXX
- Nition 2y agoThere's also the excellent http://astronaut.io http://astronaut.io, which I found via Hacker News. It automatically plays short segments from YouTube videos with those default filenames, inevitably surfacing a kind of gallery of the mundane: The unproduced, untargeted, mostly unwatched, everyday moments of real life.
- elaus 2y agoThe amount of (AI generated?) crypto spam is mind boggling. Most of the other videos seem to be amateur sport events, but the rest contains a few gems of random stranger's life :)
- deaddodo 2y agoI let it scroll through about 30 and didn't see either of these. I saw a couple small church services, some random snippets of people walking throughout various areas, what seemed to be an interview for someone's school project and some videos of pets.
- 3abiton 2y agoThis reminds me of opendirectories subreddit. So many random stuff.
- deskr 2y agoBack in the day, searching for "top secret", "highly confidential", "for private use only", etc, ... would return interesting results.
- codelobe 2y agoDistinguished seekers also searched: "NOFORN" "EYES ONLY"