I want to add a couple of good ones I’ve found:

Jeff the Killer lost media: no one knows where the original Jeff The Killer image came from.

Mortis.com: old weird website

Also here’s a good website on various obscure computer/Internet related oddities: https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/

  • BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    There’s what I call the “Rumpelstiltskin phenomenon.” Or, more appropriately, the “Rumpelstiltskin pervert phenomenon.” More a phenomenon than a mystery.

    It’s when a picture of a girl is posted online and a perverted guy asks what her name is. As if knowing her name gives him power over the girl to summon her and convince her to have sex with him.

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      9 months ago

      It’s so you can look up the person’s name to see if they have more content available somewhere.

      As an alternative reply, if you were trying to make a joke, that wasn’t a clever one.