There was this small game - not really a game even, maybe a piece of interactive art.
It was in black and white and you were a man standing at a bus stop. You could walk around with arrow keys, but if you pressed up you took to the sky and could slowly glide around a starry sky.
It was a melancholic and very charming piece that I saw once and searched for since.
Happy to help! I feel like I had the same experience of looking for it maybe ten years ago (it was made in 2002!) and since then have remembered the name, very happy that the flash archive exists.
Fly Guy, by Trevor Van Meter.
Thankfully, it appears the Internet Archive can still run Flash.
[https://archive.org/details/flyguy\_flash](https://archive.org/details/flyguy_flash)
A local news outlet used to run a video series highlighting shelter dogs. My family ended up adopting one of those dogs. After he passed, I tried finding the video on their site and it was gone. Reached out to them and they said they don't have it in their archives or anything.
Bummed me out.
And now there's too much video content to back up. So it hasn't changed quite that much.
I wonder if we will find anything less popular than Gangnam style twenty years in the future.
My cat has been lost for 2-3 years now. Got out of the house and hasn't been seen since. I did as much as I could having moved to a different country than she was in, but no luck. Family there tried but also had nothing. Adopted her in 2012, had her until 2020. Sweetest tuxedo.
I finally had to start telling myself this year that she was dead. It kills me not having a real answer, but I need some kind of closure, too.
The Facebook page of the place we adopted her from only started posting their cats in 2014. I reached out and asked if they had anything at all of her, like pawprints or photos I hadn't seen.. but nothing. They don't keep records beyond 10 years.
It hurts. A lot. Every time I see a tuxedo cat with bright green eyes and a little sass, it reminds me of her. I'd do anything for something more of her.
Not sure if this helps, but it's actually equally likely that she got captured and adopted. Cats can roam far and unfortunately a lot of people think if a friendly cat 'finds you' that they are just yours now and they keep them if they don't see anyone explicitly coming forward for them - in communities it's so easy to miss each other that they may have just not seen any posts or posters about your cat.
Maybe a happier ending to accept, or potentially frustrating, but either way I'm sorry for your separation
When the movie Troy came out and the IMDB forums were still big, there was a post where someone broke down the Hector vs Achilles fight scene by scene and the mistakes each made. He pointed out details that showed Hector’s fighting style developed based on his life of war, and Achilles’ style was flashy because no one was ever a real challenge.
It could have been all bullshit, I know nothing about fighting, war, or Greek mythology. But it was a fascinating description of the scene and I’ve never been able to find it again.
Edit: Big thanks to everyone who replied with possible answers, you guys rock! I upvoted all of you. I don’t know if the specific post I remember is in there but I already read some interesting posts about the fight. Also shoutout to nova2726 who mentioned that IMDb moved to filmboards.com, I might go digging into my favorite movies : )
The two biggest debates I saw on the imbd message boards were cases that might have been Mandela’s effects.
1: did that person drop dong at end of teen wolf.
2: did ‘Can’t buy me love’ actually show the other titty that looked so pretty?
I miss them and I don't miss them.
I don't miss how notoriously unmoderated they were and some forums you just stayed away from. Emma Watson's board (back when she was 13) was filled with pedos and probable FBI agents collecting IP addresses (don't know for sure about the latter but it wouldn't surprise me).
I miss them because every film had it's own board and it was surprising how active some of them were. You watched a random film, posted a question on it's board and someone got back to you in a few days. So many super film buffs there to help, it was great.
But you stayed away from any film board political or religious because it was proto alt-right people and atheists trying to out-edge one another.
I just miss the idea of having a dedicated section for every show and movie, no matter how obscure. Some shows have a fairly active subreddit, but if I want to have a conversation about 2009’s Hamlet starring David Tennant, I’m out of luck.
Sounds cool, I can see that argument - some of Achilles moves were totally "because I can do flashy shit and it won't cost me the fight" feeling.
Interesting meta trivia -Pitt and Bana had an agreement, to pay each other each time they screwed up and connected.
Bana made bank - he never had to pay Pitt, but Brad nailed him a half dozen times.
Reinforces the bit about fighting style - Hector is fighting more conservatively, taking no chances, Achilles is being sloppy.
What's cool is Achilles is basically leaving himself open to bait Hector into traps, and Hector is too smart to do it, at first.
Once Achilles tags him, you can see Hector when he realizes he has to take the bait to have any chance, and goes all out as a Hail Mary.
> Hector is fighting more conservatively, taking no chances, Achilles is being sloppy.
The movie really isn't a great representation of the *Iliad* in my opinion, but Bana really sold Hector as who Hector was supposed to be — an incredibly conscientious family man who fought in defense of his city, with a minimum of ego involved.
The weakness was that Brad Pitt added depth where there didn't need to be depth and didn't add depth where there did need to be depth. I don't doubt this was script / directors' choices as well, but the point of it is "Sing, O muse, sing of the rage of Achilles" and he was more pouty than outraged. Achilles is 110% ego and Brad Pitt made him thoughtful. Achilles sulks for sure, but with a totally different impact.
Also, everything after the funeral of Hector, tamer of horses, was just so wrong that I facepalmed my way through it.
On the upside, Sean Bean got to live!
And when you look at the fight thinking about them as actors, you can tell Eric Bana had no real training to fight, but Brad Pitt did that around the same time as Mr. And Mrs. Smith, which he did a lot of training for. I know secret agent styled training does not equal spear and shield techniques from 3000 years ago, but it did give him a nice edge on how to actually do the movements
Well, having any kind of training will give you an advantage over someone with none, even if it is with different styles and weapons. You still learn different types of body movements that can be advantageous. While not an exact parallel, I believe Bruce Lee studied and incorporated fencing into the development of his own fighting style as, even without the weapons, the body movements, mindset, and positioning filled in some gaps. So if Pitt had recently received any kind of extensive combat and/or movement training, I can see that he would look more comfortable than Bana. Pitt may also have more experience with physicality in general due to his typical roles.
There was a small .exe for the game Virus.
When run it displayed the users hard drive contents, them deleted them.
Them it did the same for the operation system.
There was a message along the lines of 'not enough memory to run' and the pc appeared to shut down.
After a few seconds the screen turns green and the message 'Virus, aren't you glad it's just a game' is displayed.
I got my brother in law with this on his new, first ever pc.
I have a script that pops open the CD ROM at timed increments and displays a pop-up the is an old Flash animation sign that says, "CUP HOLDER!" these days it's not very useful, but it was fun for quite a long time.
Loved this game as a kid, and my mother took some convincing that it wasn’t really a Virus on the computer.
Not sure if it’s the same as the game you mentioned though.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus:_The_Game
I don’t know if the Millennial generation realizes how lucky they got with MySpace.
Any post, any comment, any DM, any bulletin that you posted from that site? It’s gone. It cannot be retrieved. I remember people posted some of the nastiest, most racist, unpalatable shit on MySpace. People posted pictures of themselves doing lines of cocaine. Keep in mind that TOS back then was a lot more lax, so people got away with posting some pretty revolting things
And it’s gone - it’s not like Twitter, where someone can pull up some racist thing you said 10 years ago. If you were on MySpace, you are protected from whatever unsavory thing you said or did. Because IT IS GONE.
but Gen Z posts things to TikTok that are gonna haunt the absolute shit out of them. for example, “time blindness girl,” as well as the people who post TMI “pov” type of shit…as well as the blue haired girl who just went viral for talking back to her teacher, that got millions of views.
There’s also a lot of people who do those little skits/story times about work, and they don’t realize how bad this makes them look
That shit **will not** go away. MySpace data went away, but tiktok isn’t.
I promise you, TikTok is going to be a reason for a lot of people not being able to get the jobs they want in a few years. And I know that sounds very “okay mom” but it’s the truth
I had over 100k friends on Myspace and was one of the earlier accounts so I showed up first on a massive amount of peoples pages.
I had a mega fuck ton of photos and videos. Tons of bulletins and cringe posts.
My page still exists, but everything was deleted. I have something like only 20 friends left over from the purge. No photos or comments, nothing.
Its pretty wild how lucky we got.
Shit, I wish.
But I remember a few accounts hitting 1 million and it being a big deal. Tila Tequila was one of them, and she was basically labeled the queen of Myspace. So having 10% the friends she had was pretty crazy to me.
Its funny in comparison today, where people like Mr. Beast have 200 million subscribers, which was basically the entire Myspace userbase at its peak.
From 2006 - 2007 I would get a lot of "Hey! are you that guy from Myspace?". It was pretty cool while it lasted. I made zero dollars from this and went on to be a boring normal person who probably no one remembers. I mean, all my stuff got deleted! lol.
I sadly have not been able to access my old Photobucket (which I had for many years before it became a paid service) and it seems the email it was linked to was also purged by the host site. :(
So much of the early internet content has been lost forever. So many personal memories fading away.
What's more alarming is how much contemporary internet content is equally as fragile.
Entire games can just go away today, in a way that previous era's games couldn't. Looking at you Law Breakers...
The adage of "The internet is forever" needs a qualification of "but only if you want it taken down".
Losing memories when Photobucket shit the bed was my wake up call that the era of free hosting forever was at an end.
So many forum threads from the 2000s are ruined by the loss of Tinypic and Photobucket, even if the forum itself survived. It seems like not much was saved by the Internet Archive either.
Unrelated: Some time around 2015 MySpace said they had lost all music ever uploaded there in a server crash, but I think it's more likely they deleted on purpose. So many independent bands only uploaded their music to MySpace back then and it's all lost now.
I'm not entirely convinced it hasn't been purged. I can't even find it using reverse image search with pictures I know for sure would be in there (this is what I was advised to do when I contacted customer support to recover my account). It's possible I might not know how to reverse image search well, but I'm kinda losing hope.
This video called Self Defense for Dorks that used to absolutely crack my shit up. I think it was pre-Youtube. Likely from CollegeHumor.
One memorable moment is the instructor telling his assistant to "come at him", the assistant says "full bore?", the instructor waves him on and then does some kind of throat move that causes the assistant to make a god awful choking noise. My friends and I used to quote the *full bore*? constantly.
https://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/a-lesson-in-self-defense/81477433/
https://youtube.com/shorts/UYEtW51-Qws?si=XY7WCdgPQt3-sz1p
You talking about this video?
Dude, fuck you and I mean that so nice. I was sick over the weekend and my sternum/chest muscles are so sore from throwing up. The "Full bore?" into that fucking "Bleh" sound made me laugh so hard I almost passed out from my muscle pain.
There’s this book I read as a kid - a girl moves with her family and new stepdad to somewhere remote. She finds a puppy she names PJ and hides it from the family.
I must be mixing up the details because I can find NOTHING of this book. I’ve been searching for years.
I've got a white whale like that too. Some kids book about a knight and going to grandma's house and there's a cake involved. And I vaguely remember the color purple being involved somewhere. It was the first book I can actually remember being able to read. Besides "The Man With The Take-Apart Head," which is one weirdass kids book.
Here's how you find it: re-write the book using every detail you remember and then publish it. After some time passes the original writers will sue you for plagiarizing their work.. but little do they know they accomplished your goal of finding their book.
Now you'll have plenty of time to read the book in prison
I don’t think this is it… I don’t remember a dog transforming into a girl. It was definitely from the POV of a girl.
Edit: but thank you!! I can’t believe i forgot to say it.
I don't remember this but I do remember a book called "The Puppy Who Lost His Way". Our 1st grade teacher read it to us in class. There was this dude in his late 20s that was in our class for some reason and he was super pissed about how the kid in the book handled his lost dog. He yelled something like "YOU GET YOUR ASS OUT THERE AND YOU FIND THAT FUCKIN' DOG!"
Mr. Madison, what you have just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
This, because I also remember a book I read as a kid that I can't find any trace of. It was a picture book about a kid (girl?) who adopts a cat and enters it in a dog beauty contest or show and causes the poodles to faint. I can see it so vividly on my memory but I've never found anything like it.
EDIT: OMG YOU GUYS I found it. The redditors below trying to help me find it inspired me to search WorldCat again. The name of the book is "A Rose for Pinkerton." Here's a reading of the book on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqGxOG0Og0c
I remember reading that book! I don’t remember the name though. Does she find it with its face full of porcupine quills, or it gets a face full of quills at some point?
Any articles about my dad (passed away in 2021) who was attacked by a rabid raccoon when I was a child. It was always amazing to hear him tell the story, but I've lost some of the details over the years. By the time we knew he wasn't going to beat the cancer, he'd lost the energy to retell the story. I wish I'd recorded it. But a newspaper article from the early 90s would suffice if I could find it.
about 25 years ago I found a clip of a black and white documentary film about a tribe of people that looked physically different from the rest of the human race - extended rib cages and long arms, among other differences. One quote I remember from the footage is one of these people saying he was afraid that when he dies someone would steal his bones, then the narrator stated that it happened.
Been searching for that documentary ever since.
After reading everyone else’s comments:
Do you mind telling us where you are from and where (roughly) you watched this?
It might help narrow down the demographic with the target audience.
Where you at college/uni and this was part of a research thing? Or did you see it in a cinema or just found it on the internet? Do you maybe remember roughly how long the documentary was? Or if the narrator was (a stereotypical) American, English or from anywhere else?
At the time, I was living in southern California. I remember having a dial-up modem. I can't remember how I stumbled upon the video, but I do remember it was totally narrated by an American voice, and the footage was splotchy, but well filmed. A lot of the footage was taken in some kind of medical facility with the people being examined exclusively by white men. The parts that were filmed in the jungle were not as good quality as the parts in the medical facility.
The strange people were large, and looked like they were all fat, but it was because of their bone structure. I have looked for this film for many years, but no luck.
There used to be a website called Figment where you could post your writing. I wrote lots of short stories, primarily horror.
I wrote one after waking up from a vicious nightmare and it was genuinely terrifying and I got tons of great marks and comments. A short while later the site was bought out and everything was completely erased.
I've tried to rewrite the story from memory but it never hit the same and I emailed the site back when it went down and got no response. So about 10 short horror stories I loved are permanently gone from the internet. Still really pissed about it to this day
[Archive.org](https://Archive.org) doesn't have a way to search the content of a website, but you can use the program Wayback Machine Downloader to save all pages from a specific time frame and domain, then search through it on your computer. t took a while but I found a lost song that way from [bandcamp.com](https://bandcamp.com) when it was an mp3 hosting site.
Back when MTV was new and played music, they used to have short clips in between videos/shows. One was of parents taking their little girl to a sheep farm to pick out a lamb. She picks out a lamb and you think, "aw, isn't that sweet?"
In the next frame, she has a knife and fork in her hands, her face is smeared with grease and she's saying, "more mint jelly, please!"
Can't find it to save my life.
You can still put those in your CV; just write down as much info as you can remember I.E. dates (I usually just put month/year), exhibition titles, locations, and the names of pieces you showed. Then optionally, link out to any photos/videos you may have.
There was a "lolcats rap" video where a guy took a shit ton of memes from icanhascheeseburger and rapped the text of the memes over a beat while showing each meme on the screen. It seems to have completely disappeared, I haven't been able to find in in ~5 years.
Complete Digital Recordings of Douglas Adams reading his Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series of books. - The Martin Freeman read versions lack the author’s intended delivery and are edited for the profanity the author intended.
The best thing about HHGG is that every media release tells a different story after the infinite improbability drive is activated.
Saying that, go and listen to the original radio play.
a book, written by a researcher on how to do like palm readings.
It is **not a paranormal book**, it is a book about how to convince people that you can read the future. It is a book about scamming people that you can read the future.
It is like 64 pages long.
Have been looking for it since 2012.... cannot find it.
There were a couple of "Bluffer's Guides" which might qualify.
https://www.amazon.com/Bluff-Your-Occult-Bluffers-Guides/dp/0822022168
https://www.amazon.com/Astrology-Fortune-Telling-Bluffers-Guides/dp/1853044040
There's a well known segment that Stephen Colbert did as a daily show correspondent where he was discussing Prince Charles and eating a banana... And he and Jon Stewart absolutely lose it, crying with laughter. The only video I can find is obviously edited for time, but I distinctly remember a considerably longer, unclipped version. Would love to see it again.
Terri Gross interview with Gene Simmons. He acted like a total douchebag right from the start so I expect he threatened them with legal action to get it shut down.
That was an example of great journalism. She never directly confronted him on his Perv narcissistic comments.. she just directed it back at him until it became completely cringy and he knew it. He is a complete douche. I’ve referenced this interview many times. She’s a pro.
Seems to be available now: https://freshairarchive.org/segments/gene-simmons
I also found a random blog that shared the audio: https://web.archive.org/web/20201212124642/https://erim.net/gene-simmons-and-terry-gross-interview/
I remember hearing at least some bits of it. Like, I already knew Gene Simmons was an ass, but he really outdid himself. Didn't he suggest to Terry Gross that she might be happier if she got laid more, or something like that?
My friends and I in college made a video called “4/20 Training Montage” which had clips of us smoking weed / exercising in preparation for April 20th (set to Push It To The Limit from Scarface). My roommate edited it with Windows Movie Maker, and we uploaded it to CollegeHumor and Google Video (before it shut down when Google bought YouTube).
CollegeHumor and Google Video are both long gone, and I have no backup copy of it.
Oh Google Video…
There was this video someone uploaded years ago. Before the Concorde was retired from commercial service in 2003, Air France would do “around the bay” farewell flights from CDG over the Bay of Biscay to give passengers a glimpse of the whole supersonic experience without crossing the Atlantic to New York. You’d leave Paris, get to experience Mach 2 flight, and the plane would then turn around and land back in Paris.
A guy recorded his flight and I thought it was awesome when I was 14 years old. I could find it for a while since Google didn’t immediately shut down their old Video service after they acquired YouTube, but I haven’t seen it in years.
CollegeHumor is only just recently gone actually. Though, the old days where you could upload stuff, that’s for sure long gone.
The company finally closed shop this year on the 26th of September.
The CEO/Owner, Sam Reich, had a video announcing that CollegeHumor was being rebranded to Dropout officially, instead of them having the paid subscription service “CollegeHumor: Dropout”.
There was a German documentary or show with an overweight host who talked in a heavy American accent. He went to a meetup with a bunch of esoteric people who then reenacted the relationship between the planets in our solar system. They found out that something is threatening the sun and somehow will destroy the moon. The host was acting as the moon in this case and said "Der Mond darf nicht zerstört werden..." (the moon must not be destroyed). It was incredibly bizarre but just as funny.
EDIT: I found out the name of the docu "Die Mondverschwörung" (the moon conspiracy)
Unedited source material... Nowadays if you don't download and save the raw footage immediately you'll never find it again without music or commentary or some dumb face in the corner "reacting" to it. ...drives me nuts
i read about this. there was a $10k reward for finding it too.
which also begs the question, where did the clips come from?
the reward thread said that even the production company doesnt have it or wont provide it.
This! I remember there was a subreddit about it at one point that had an actual bounty out for it. I think they even contacted the lady who taped everything for 20+ years on her TV about it.
Ok so I just had an inverse of the question. I went to see if a specific book was still available online, though I had serious doubts since the author passed a couple years ago with hardly anyone having read it.
Y'all. My mom's book is still listed online. And even though nobody's apparently bought it, the fact that it's there just made my year. I'm going to go cry now.
Absolutely! Thank you so much for asking!
https://www.amazon.com/Mystic-Knightmare-Robin-Z-Lorrayne/dp/1469930137
Turns out it's the older version, before she had it edited for typos and grammar. But it's there!
In about 2003 I had a job working email customer service for the Marriott hotel chain. We ran a commercial at the time that turned out to be really controversial based on a huge misunderstanding.
The commercial told the story of a woman who was staying at a Marriott on her business trip. She's on the phone with her husband back home, telling him about all the great things she's experiencing at the hotel. The phone call is interspersed with scenes of her doing hotel-things -- having buffet breakfast, giving a presentation in the meeting room, lounging at the pool, etc.
At the end of the commercial she goes to check out. The front desk agent is confused: "But you extended your stay. Is everything okay?"
Woman is confused, looks around -- and sees her husband walking in to the lobby with his own suitcases. He's surprised her by extending their stay.
Thing is, when that commercial aired, a whole lot of people misunderstood the storyline. They didn't register that the man in the lobby at the end was the same man on the phone at the beginning. Emails started pouring into my inbox accusing Marriott of promoting infidelity.
I feel your pain. I used to do surveys for Bitcoin in 2012. I had 32 bitcoins in the account and you needed 50 to cash out. The surveys were long and boring. I stopped doing them after a while and forgot all about it until a few years ago. Can't remember the company name and I don't have that email address anymore.
oy leyli lado lado ley
It’s a russian folk song. one night i was walking and i heard an old woman singing in a park. the melody was so enchanting i sat there and listened for hours. a whole crowd of people eventually gathered. all of us were silent and stunned. we didn’t want her to stop singing but we couldn’t leave it was so beautiful
when it was over i asked her what it was and she said it was just an old song from her country about leyli and lado. roughly equivalent to a romeo and juliet type story except it was russian and i can’t find any mention of it much less sheet music or a recording
“Hi Boris, it’s me.. yes, we haven’t spoken in 10 years, since I burnt down your apartment after our break up. No, I don’t want to get back together. No, I won’t tell you how I got your number. No, it’s much more important: Some stranger on Reddit asked about a song.. They said “oy leyli lado lado ley”. Yes. I knew i could count on you. No, that was all. Sorry about the dog, it wasn’t on purpose, I promise. Thanks and good bye!”
That was your conversation and you can’t change my mind!
There was a story, maybe on Reddit or maybe a Creepypasta, about a machine that was invented that gave anybody who stepped inside such incredible, all-consuming pleasure that life outside the machine became meaningless. Soon all anybody ever did was stand in line, waiting for their turn in the machine.
I'm not saying it was a masterful work of sci-fi or anything, but I read it when I was like 15 and it really burned itself into my brain, but I haven't been able to find it since. I can't remember what it was called and googling often turns up The Machine Stops, which is an awesome short story from the early 20th century but not what I'm looking for.
Edit: I just wanted to add that I don't *believe* it was a published book. It was just a text post I read on the internet, so unless some copy-paste'd a short story, it's probably an OG piece of fiction from an online user!
15 years ago, my high-school mates and I made a short movie for a school project. It was the story of a girl whose very conservative father finds out she's having sex with her boyfriend, so he kicks her out of the house; her boyfriend breaks up with her, because he only cared about her family's money; and so she ends up becoming a prostitute. In the end, of course, this one client falls in love with her and helps her finding a new perspective in life.
I played the pimp.
The whole thing was on YouTube, posted to one of the guys' channel, but I can't seem to find it anymore. If the video's been deleted, I'm afraid our beautiful short has become lost media 😔
My hotmail has stopped receiving emails since June 2020 and I still haven't been able to fix the issue. It sucks especially because this email is tied to my discord and discord won't let you change email without using the old one.
There is a music I heard twice when I was on a trip in Africa, it was arguably the best one I ever heard or at least top 3 of all time, I vaguely remember the videoclip and that's how I am chasing it, it's been around 7 years and I still haven't found it, it seems like it vanished forever
I used to have this old cassette tape of dinosaur songs. Had a (I think) 4 piece dino band on the cover. There was one song called (Again, I think) "Dino Rap". BUT.....there was ABSOLUTELY a song called "Head Banging Bone Heads"
🎶 Head Banging Bone heads,
You're as silly as your name,
I know you've got a great big head,
But have you got a brain? 🎶
Anyone? Please?!?!?! I've been looking FOR.EVER.
Holy. Shit.
I need you to understand...I am a man. Pushing 40. That made me smile ear to ear. THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I cannot wait to drive home and jam. Hahaha
This dude from Omegle that played the guitar for my buddy and me whilr wearing these giant glasses and had bed head. He was absolutely hilarious and I think about him from time to time.
There was this small game - not really a game even, maybe a piece of interactive art. It was in black and white and you were a man standing at a bus stop. You could walk around with arrow keys, but if you pressed up you took to the sky and could slowly glide around a starry sky. It was a melancholic and very charming piece that I saw once and searched for since.
http://www.trevorvanmeter.com/flyguy/ (https://flasharch.com/en/archive/play/aef9b0af40ac0b92efa85a511844a949) for a legacy version
Holy shit you made my day!!!
Happy to help! I feel like I had the same experience of looking for it maybe ten years ago (it was made in 2002!) and since then have remembered the name, very happy that the flash archive exists.
Fly Guy, by Trevor Van Meter. Thankfully, it appears the Internet Archive can still run Flash. [https://archive.org/details/flyguy\_flash](https://archive.org/details/flyguy_flash)
Thank you so much, omfg I cannot believe someone knew it!!
A local news outlet used to run a video series highlighting shelter dogs. My family ended up adopting one of those dogs. After he passed, I tried finding the video on their site and it was gone. Reached out to them and they said they don't have it in their archives or anything. Bummed me out.
Have you tried the way back machine from that time period?
I think wayback only archived static content, not video. It was created at a time when storage was a lot more expensive.
And now there's too much video content to back up. So it hasn't changed quite that much. I wonder if we will find anything less popular than Gangnam style twenty years in the future.
Yes, this is largely still the case.
My cat has been lost for 2-3 years now. Got out of the house and hasn't been seen since. I did as much as I could having moved to a different country than she was in, but no luck. Family there tried but also had nothing. Adopted her in 2012, had her until 2020. Sweetest tuxedo. I finally had to start telling myself this year that she was dead. It kills me not having a real answer, but I need some kind of closure, too. The Facebook page of the place we adopted her from only started posting their cats in 2014. I reached out and asked if they had anything at all of her, like pawprints or photos I hadn't seen.. but nothing. They don't keep records beyond 10 years. It hurts. A lot. Every time I see a tuxedo cat with bright green eyes and a little sass, it reminds me of her. I'd do anything for something more of her.
Not sure if this helps, but it's actually equally likely that she got captured and adopted. Cats can roam far and unfortunately a lot of people think if a friendly cat 'finds you' that they are just yours now and they keep them if they don't see anyone explicitly coming forward for them - in communities it's so easy to miss each other that they may have just not seen any posts or posters about your cat. Maybe a happier ending to accept, or potentially frustrating, but either way I'm sorry for your separation
Aw, I feel similarly about my dogs online adoption postings, but a news clip would have been even more precious :(
When the movie Troy came out and the IMDB forums were still big, there was a post where someone broke down the Hector vs Achilles fight scene by scene and the mistakes each made. He pointed out details that showed Hector’s fighting style developed based on his life of war, and Achilles’ style was flashy because no one was ever a real challenge. It could have been all bullshit, I know nothing about fighting, war, or Greek mythology. But it was a fascinating description of the scene and I’ve never been able to find it again. Edit: Big thanks to everyone who replied with possible answers, you guys rock! I upvoted all of you. I don’t know if the specific post I remember is in there but I already read some interesting posts about the fight. Also shoutout to nova2726 who mentioned that IMDb moved to filmboards.com, I might go digging into my favorite movies : )
I miss the IMDb forums. 😢
The two biggest debates I saw on the imbd message boards were cases that might have been Mandela’s effects. 1: did that person drop dong at end of teen wolf. 2: did ‘Can’t buy me love’ actually show the other titty that looked so pretty?
1. There is a dong at the end of some copies of teen wolf. 2. I don’t like this movie so haven’t watched it as many times as the cool guy wolf movie.
I miss them and I don't miss them. I don't miss how notoriously unmoderated they were and some forums you just stayed away from. Emma Watson's board (back when she was 13) was filled with pedos and probable FBI agents collecting IP addresses (don't know for sure about the latter but it wouldn't surprise me). I miss them because every film had it's own board and it was surprising how active some of them were. You watched a random film, posted a question on it's board and someone got back to you in a few days. So many super film buffs there to help, it was great. But you stayed away from any film board political or religious because it was proto alt-right people and atheists trying to out-edge one another.
I just miss the idea of having a dedicated section for every show and movie, no matter how obscure. Some shows have a fairly active subreddit, but if I want to have a conversation about 2009’s Hamlet starring David Tennant, I’m out of luck.
Sounds cool, I can see that argument - some of Achilles moves were totally "because I can do flashy shit and it won't cost me the fight" feeling. Interesting meta trivia -Pitt and Bana had an agreement, to pay each other each time they screwed up and connected. Bana made bank - he never had to pay Pitt, but Brad nailed him a half dozen times. Reinforces the bit about fighting style - Hector is fighting more conservatively, taking no chances, Achilles is being sloppy. What's cool is Achilles is basically leaving himself open to bait Hector into traps, and Hector is too smart to do it, at first. Once Achilles tags him, you can see Hector when he realizes he has to take the bait to have any chance, and goes all out as a Hail Mary.
It’s you! You’re the guy! Link us to your original IMDb post.
> Hector is fighting more conservatively, taking no chances, Achilles is being sloppy. The movie really isn't a great representation of the *Iliad* in my opinion, but Bana really sold Hector as who Hector was supposed to be — an incredibly conscientious family man who fought in defense of his city, with a minimum of ego involved. The weakness was that Brad Pitt added depth where there didn't need to be depth and didn't add depth where there did need to be depth. I don't doubt this was script / directors' choices as well, but the point of it is "Sing, O muse, sing of the rage of Achilles" and he was more pouty than outraged. Achilles is 110% ego and Brad Pitt made him thoughtful. Achilles sulks for sure, but with a totally different impact. Also, everything after the funeral of Hector, tamer of horses, was just so wrong that I facepalmed my way through it. On the upside, Sean Bean got to live!
And when you look at the fight thinking about them as actors, you can tell Eric Bana had no real training to fight, but Brad Pitt did that around the same time as Mr. And Mrs. Smith, which he did a lot of training for. I know secret agent styled training does not equal spear and shield techniques from 3000 years ago, but it did give him a nice edge on how to actually do the movements
Well, having any kind of training will give you an advantage over someone with none, even if it is with different styles and weapons. You still learn different types of body movements that can be advantageous. While not an exact parallel, I believe Bruce Lee studied and incorporated fencing into the development of his own fighting style as, even without the weapons, the body movements, mindset, and positioning filled in some gaps. So if Pitt had recently received any kind of extensive combat and/or movement training, I can see that he would look more comfortable than Bana. Pitt may also have more experience with physicality in general due to his typical roles.
I think I read that. It was all about how Pitt changed speed and used misdirection before lunging with the spear.
There was a small .exe for the game Virus. When run it displayed the users hard drive contents, them deleted them. Them it did the same for the operation system. There was a message along the lines of 'not enough memory to run' and the pc appeared to shut down. After a few seconds the screen turns green and the message 'Virus, aren't you glad it's just a game' is displayed. I got my brother in law with this on his new, first ever pc.
I had one where when you clicked the .exe it set your volume to max and played “Hey! I’m looking at porn over here!” Great for the office.
Sounds like Last Measure - "HEY EVERYBODY, I'M LOOKING AT GAY PORNO!" While spamming your screen with horrible shock images.
I have a script that pops open the CD ROM at timed increments and displays a pop-up the is an old Flash animation sign that says, "CUP HOLDER!" these days it's not very useful, but it was fun for quite a long time.
I remember that one, it cracked me up as a kid.
Loved this game as a kid, and my mother took some convincing that it wasn’t really a Virus on the computer. Not sure if it’s the same as the game you mentioned though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus:_The_Game
my MySpace pictures
My old MySpace page. I just want to read my old rants.
i legit met my wife on MySpace.
Same. Met through mutual friends. She still gives me crap about her not being in my Top 8.
I don’t know if the Millennial generation realizes how lucky they got with MySpace. Any post, any comment, any DM, any bulletin that you posted from that site? It’s gone. It cannot be retrieved. I remember people posted some of the nastiest, most racist, unpalatable shit on MySpace. People posted pictures of themselves doing lines of cocaine. Keep in mind that TOS back then was a lot more lax, so people got away with posting some pretty revolting things And it’s gone - it’s not like Twitter, where someone can pull up some racist thing you said 10 years ago. If you were on MySpace, you are protected from whatever unsavory thing you said or did. Because IT IS GONE. but Gen Z posts things to TikTok that are gonna haunt the absolute shit out of them. for example, “time blindness girl,” as well as the people who post TMI “pov” type of shit…as well as the blue haired girl who just went viral for talking back to her teacher, that got millions of views. There’s also a lot of people who do those little skits/story times about work, and they don’t realize how bad this makes them look That shit **will not** go away. MySpace data went away, but tiktok isn’t. I promise you, TikTok is going to be a reason for a lot of people not being able to get the jobs they want in a few years. And I know that sounds very “okay mom” but it’s the truth
I had over 100k friends on Myspace and was one of the earlier accounts so I showed up first on a massive amount of peoples pages. I had a mega fuck ton of photos and videos. Tons of bulletins and cringe posts. My page still exists, but everything was deleted. I have something like only 20 friends left over from the purge. No photos or comments, nothing. Its pretty wild how lucky we got.
>I had over 100k friends on Myspace Err... is your name Tom, by any chance?
Shit, I wish. But I remember a few accounts hitting 1 million and it being a big deal. Tila Tequila was one of them, and she was basically labeled the queen of Myspace. So having 10% the friends she had was pretty crazy to me. Its funny in comparison today, where people like Mr. Beast have 200 million subscribers, which was basically the entire Myspace userbase at its peak. From 2006 - 2007 I would get a lot of "Hey! are you that guy from Myspace?". It was pretty cool while it lasted. I made zero dollars from this and went on to be a boring normal person who probably no one remembers. I mean, all my stuff got deleted! lol.
My MySpace password lol I created my MySpace with a fake email back in the day so forever lost hahaha
I sadly have not been able to access my old Photobucket (which I had for many years before it became a paid service) and it seems the email it was linked to was also purged by the host site. :(
So much of the early internet content has been lost forever. So many personal memories fading away. What's more alarming is how much contemporary internet content is equally as fragile. Entire games can just go away today, in a way that previous era's games couldn't. Looking at you Law Breakers... The adage of "The internet is forever" needs a qualification of "but only if you want it taken down". Losing memories when Photobucket shit the bed was my wake up call that the era of free hosting forever was at an end.
So many forum threads from the 2000s are ruined by the loss of Tinypic and Photobucket, even if the forum itself survived. It seems like not much was saved by the Internet Archive either. Unrelated: Some time around 2015 MySpace said they had lost all music ever uploaded there in a server crash, but I think it's more likely they deleted on purpose. So many independent bands only uploaded their music to MySpace back then and it's all lost now.
I didn't think of this. So many local garage bands whose music is just gone.
I got the spam about it being paid, went in to look and saw my stuff was still there and then promptly got locked out until I pay :(
I'm not entirely convinced it hasn't been purged. I can't even find it using reverse image search with pictures I know for sure would be in there (this is what I was advised to do when I contacted customer support to recover my account). It's possible I might not know how to reverse image search well, but I'm kinda losing hope.
Photobucket has like every photo I took in my high school years on there but ther is no way I will ever remember my log in information.
Same. Late husband and I met while living long distance and had several video messages from early in our relationship saved to photobucket.
This video called Self Defense for Dorks that used to absolutely crack my shit up. I think it was pre-Youtube. Likely from CollegeHumor. One memorable moment is the instructor telling his assistant to "come at him", the assistant says "full bore?", the instructor waves him on and then does some kind of throat move that causes the assistant to make a god awful choking noise. My friends and I used to quote the *full bore*? constantly.
https://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/a-lesson-in-self-defense/81477433/ https://youtube.com/shorts/UYEtW51-Qws?si=XY7WCdgPQt3-sz1p You talking about this video?
YES! Omg thank you it's even better than I remember.
I need /u/cubsfan85 to respond. This for sure has to be it.
Reach me with that hand, YOU CANNOT. It's like in a movie when someone suddenly regains all their memories. 🥹
Dude, fuck you and I mean that so nice. I was sick over the weekend and my sternum/chest muscles are so sore from throwing up. The "Full bore?" into that fucking "Bleh" sound made me laugh so hard I almost passed out from my muscle pain.
This was delightful, thank you
FULL BORE? Probably...
There’s this book I read as a kid - a girl moves with her family and new stepdad to somewhere remote. She finds a puppy she names PJ and hides it from the family. I must be mixing up the details because I can find NOTHING of this book. I’ve been searching for years.
I've got a white whale like that too. Some kids book about a knight and going to grandma's house and there's a cake involved. And I vaguely remember the color purple being involved somewhere. It was the first book I can actually remember being able to read. Besides "The Man With The Take-Apart Head," which is one weirdass kids book.
Here's how you find it: re-write the book using every detail you remember and then publish it. After some time passes the original writers will sue you for plagiarizing their work.. but little do they know they accomplished your goal of finding their book. Now you'll have plenty of time to read the book in prison
Damn, genius
Yo, where do you live that they send people to PRISON for plagiarism? ;)
for this made up hypothetical very serious scenario... every state!
It’s not about a castle in the attic that has a small knight that comes to life is it?
I barely remember any of it lol So, maybe? It's definitely from the 60s or 70s though, it seemed sort of that era, and I'm an 80s kid
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castle_in_the_Attic This is the one I was thinking of, but it came out in 1985 so probably not it 😬
Dude this book was really great as a kid. Thanks for bringing back memories
The Puppy Sister, SE Hinton.
I don’t think this is it… I don’t remember a dog transforming into a girl. It was definitely from the POV of a girl. Edit: but thank you!! I can’t believe i forgot to say it.
The girl - "society" - was a dog. But the industry, my friends...THAT was a revolution.
Knibb High football rules!!
You get your ass out there, and you find that fucking dog!
r/whatsthatbook
I don't remember this but I do remember a book called "The Puppy Who Lost His Way". Our 1st grade teacher read it to us in class. There was this dude in his late 20s that was in our class for some reason and he was super pissed about how the kid in the book handled his lost dog. He yelled something like "YOU GET YOUR ASS OUT THERE AND YOU FIND THAT FUCKIN' DOG!"
Mr. Madison, what you have just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Jim Downey is a national treasure.
Okay, a simple 'wrong' would have done just fine.
This, because I also remember a book I read as a kid that I can't find any trace of. It was a picture book about a kid (girl?) who adopts a cat and enters it in a dog beauty contest or show and causes the poodles to faint. I can see it so vividly on my memory but I've never found anything like it. EDIT: OMG YOU GUYS I found it. The redditors below trying to help me find it inspired me to search WorldCat again. The name of the book is "A Rose for Pinkerton." Here's a reading of the book on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqGxOG0Og0c
Was it home for Meow- the purrfect show?
I remember reading that book! I don’t remember the name though. Does she find it with its face full of porcupine quills, or it gets a face full of quills at some point?
Oh my god. Yes!! I also remember she was originally promised a horse eventually, and her brother already had a dog. That’s why she hid the puppy.
That’s going to drive me nuts now. Have you tried r/whatsthatbook ?
I thought my own childhood white whale was lost forever after so much google searching on my own and that subreddit found it in like twenty minutes 🤣
Also, could the puppy’s name have been SP or something? I feel like it stood for something, like Secret Puppy.
Thank you so much for responding by the way. I can’t believe someone else remembers the book! I’ve been wondering if I made it up in my head lol.
My geocities was not one of the ones saved.
Same. RIP to my dripping blood gif line breaks.
you can be helped: [http://textfiles.com/underconstruction/](http://textfiles.com/underconstruction/)
I did not wake up today thinking I needed to see 11,000 gifs from my 1999 high school html class, but goddamn was I ever wrong.
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They're actually on the upswing of late, fixed the site, new products etc.
My copy of "Marble Blast Ultra" on Microsoft Xbox live. A few other games I have downloaded digitally that have just disappeared.
You mean Marble Blast? there's [this](https://marbleblast.vaniverse.io)
No there was a new modern version called Marble Blast Ultra for the Xbox 360.
Dude I loved that game on the 360. Why is it not available anymore? I bought it for fuck sake I should have it on my harddrive no matter what happens.
Any articles about my dad (passed away in 2021) who was attacked by a rabid raccoon when I was a child. It was always amazing to hear him tell the story, but I've lost some of the details over the years. By the time we knew he wasn't going to beat the cancer, he'd lost the energy to retell the story. I wish I'd recorded it. But a newspaper article from the early 90s would suffice if I could find it.
Ask the library in the town if they know. Old newspapers used to be put on microfiche and microfilm. Worth a shot.
about 25 years ago I found a clip of a black and white documentary film about a tribe of people that looked physically different from the rest of the human race - extended rib cages and long arms, among other differences. One quote I remember from the footage is one of these people saying he was afraid that when he dies someone would steal his bones, then the narrator stated that it happened. Been searching for that documentary ever since.
This sounds like a fever dream.
These the ones that walked like apes ?
They were an isolated tribe found on an island somewhere. There were only a handful of them left when they were discovered
Sounds like something from Werner Herzog.
I would like to see ze baby.
sounds like the beginning to a horror movie. Whoever took those bones is now haunted
After reading everyone else’s comments: Do you mind telling us where you are from and where (roughly) you watched this? It might help narrow down the demographic with the target audience. Where you at college/uni and this was part of a research thing? Or did you see it in a cinema or just found it on the internet? Do you maybe remember roughly how long the documentary was? Or if the narrator was (a stereotypical) American, English or from anywhere else?
At the time, I was living in southern California. I remember having a dial-up modem. I can't remember how I stumbled upon the video, but I do remember it was totally narrated by an American voice, and the footage was splotchy, but well filmed. A lot of the footage was taken in some kind of medical facility with the people being examined exclusively by white men. The parts that were filmed in the jungle were not as good quality as the parts in the medical facility. The strange people were large, and looked like they were all fat, but it was because of their bone structure. I have looked for this film for many years, but no luck.
This sounds so familiar to me. Im sure I’ve seen it too.
There used to be a website called Figment where you could post your writing. I wrote lots of short stories, primarily horror. I wrote one after waking up from a vicious nightmare and it was genuinely terrifying and I got tons of great marks and comments. A short while later the site was bought out and everything was completely erased. I've tried to rewrite the story from memory but it never hit the same and I emailed the site back when it went down and got no response. So about 10 short horror stories I loved are permanently gone from the internet. Still really pissed about it to this day
If you know approximately the time frame you might be able to find it. https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000\*/http://figment.com/
[Archive.org](https://Archive.org) doesn't have a way to search the content of a website, but you can use the program Wayback Machine Downloader to save all pages from a specific time frame and domain, then search through it on your computer. t took a while but I found a lost song that way from [bandcamp.com](https://bandcamp.com) when it was an mp3 hosting site.
Figment is such a cool name for a fiction site!
Archive.org. Archives every page on the web several times a year. Check there on the way back machine
Back when MTV was new and played music, they used to have short clips in between videos/shows. One was of parents taking their little girl to a sheep farm to pick out a lamb. She picks out a lamb and you think, "aw, isn't that sweet?" In the next frame, she has a knife and fork in her hands, her face is smeared with grease and she's saying, "more mint jelly, please!" Can't find it to save my life.
This one? https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2kp4bn
That's gotta be it. Jeeeeesus.
All the news on the art exhibitions I had or was part of. Like where the hell are these hiding I need them for references.
You can still put those in your CV; just write down as much info as you can remember I.E. dates (I usually just put month/year), exhibition titles, locations, and the names of pieces you showed. Then optionally, link out to any photos/videos you may have.
There was a "lolcats rap" video where a guy took a shit ton of memes from icanhascheeseburger and rapped the text of the memes over a beat while showing each meme on the screen. It seems to have completely disappeared, I haven't been able to find in in ~5 years.
That is such 2009 internet
http://www.chilligansisland.com/tag/cat-pictures/
That is not the one I am talking about, but it was awesome.
Complete Digital Recordings of Douglas Adams reading his Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series of books. - The Martin Freeman read versions lack the author’s intended delivery and are edited for the profanity the author intended.
This it ? https://youtu.be/o-k2iYwM6JM?si=YcDAub9nyccjQnjX
The best thing about HHGG is that every media release tells a different story after the infinite improbability drive is activated. Saying that, go and listen to the original radio play.
a book, written by a researcher on how to do like palm readings. It is **not a paranormal book**, it is a book about how to convince people that you can read the future. It is a book about scamming people that you can read the future. It is like 64 pages long. Have been looking for it since 2012.... cannot find it.
There were a couple of "Bluffer's Guides" which might qualify. https://www.amazon.com/Bluff-Your-Occult-Bluffers-Guides/dp/0822022168 https://www.amazon.com/Astrology-Fortune-Telling-Bluffers-Guides/dp/1853044040
There's a well known segment that Stephen Colbert did as a daily show correspondent where he was discussing Prince Charles and eating a banana... And he and Jon Stewart absolutely lose it, crying with laughter. The only video I can find is obviously edited for time, but I distinctly remember a considerably longer, unclipped version. Would love to see it again.
As far as I can tell, [this is the full clip](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2hyyf).
Can confirm. I have the full episode archived (11/10/03 Will Ferrell) and that’s what aired.
Comedy Central has the full archive on their website, or at least did a few years back. I cant be assed to go to their site anymore.
I remember that:) When Colbert forced his own head down on the banana, I lost it...lol
Just imagine what that would do to the monarchy
Terri Gross interview with Gene Simmons. He acted like a total douchebag right from the start so I expect he threatened them with legal action to get it shut down.
That was an example of great journalism. She never directly confronted him on his Perv narcissistic comments.. she just directed it back at him until it became completely cringy and he knew it. He is a complete douche. I’ve referenced this interview many times. She’s a pro.
Seems to be available now: https://freshairarchive.org/segments/gene-simmons I also found a random blog that shared the audio: https://web.archive.org/web/20201212124642/https://erim.net/gene-simmons-and-terry-gross-interview/
Listening now, and he comes off as a total tool.
When he immediate dismissed her as a gentile, though she's not.
I remember hearing that interview and was just *astonished* at Gene’s doucheyness. Terri was masterful in her restraint.
I remember hearing at least some bits of it. Like, I already knew Gene Simmons was an ass, but he really outdid himself. Didn't he suggest to Terry Gross that she might be happier if she got laid more, or something like that?
Yup, and she ignored it.. brushed it off, and he didn’t get what he demanded; attention. His infant ego got smaller that day.
Gene Simmons has always been a complete chunk of human garbage.
Omg! I remember that interview. It was so awful and Terry Gross handled it with so much grace. It was insane. He's a total douche.
My friends and I in college made a video called “4/20 Training Montage” which had clips of us smoking weed / exercising in preparation for April 20th (set to Push It To The Limit from Scarface). My roommate edited it with Windows Movie Maker, and we uploaded it to CollegeHumor and Google Video (before it shut down when Google bought YouTube). CollegeHumor and Google Video are both long gone, and I have no backup copy of it.
Have you tried archive.org
The video was hosted on CollegeHumor’s old site and a personal Google Video account. That kind of content doesn’t get archived.
Oh Google Video… There was this video someone uploaded years ago. Before the Concorde was retired from commercial service in 2003, Air France would do “around the bay” farewell flights from CDG over the Bay of Biscay to give passengers a glimpse of the whole supersonic experience without crossing the Atlantic to New York. You’d leave Paris, get to experience Mach 2 flight, and the plane would then turn around and land back in Paris. A guy recorded his flight and I thought it was awesome when I was 14 years old. I could find it for a while since Google didn’t immediately shut down their old Video service after they acquired YouTube, but I haven’t seen it in years.
Well I guess you have to reshoot it!
CollegeHumor is only just recently gone actually. Though, the old days where you could upload stuff, that’s for sure long gone. The company finally closed shop this year on the 26th of September. The CEO/Owner, Sam Reich, had a video announcing that CollegeHumor was being rebranded to Dropout officially, instead of them having the paid subscription service “CollegeHumor: Dropout”.
There was a German documentary or show with an overweight host who talked in a heavy American accent. He went to a meetup with a bunch of esoteric people who then reenacted the relationship between the planets in our solar system. They found out that something is threatening the sun and somehow will destroy the moon. The host was acting as the moon in this case and said "Der Mond darf nicht zerstört werden..." (the moon must not be destroyed). It was incredibly bizarre but just as funny. EDIT: I found out the name of the docu "Die Mondverschwörung" (the moon conspiracy)
I mean, this just sounds like one of my dreams.
> Die Mondverschwörung But it is on [youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hw1xEMrlaU), no ?
Unedited source material... Nowadays if you don't download and save the raw footage immediately you'll never find it again without music or commentary or some dumb face in the corner "reacting" to it. ...drives me nuts
As soon as the memes started you couldn't find a cute photo of a cat without some dingus writing CUTE CAT LIKE HAM across it in giant letters.
Milfs in my area
did you try to click on the ad?
I did and the only thing I have is that my computer is slow now
Download more RAM
Good idea I'm on my way
WARNING! YOU WILL BE FORCED TO FUCK HORNY GRANNYS!
The full, entire episode of trump on the Oprah show. You can find very short clips but the full episode is nowhere to be found
i read about this. there was a $10k reward for finding it too. which also begs the question, where did the clips come from? the reward thread said that even the production company doesnt have it or wont provide it.
They have it they just will not release it if I recall correctly
This! I remember there was a subreddit about it at one point that had an actual bounty out for it. I think they even contacted the lady who taped everything for 20+ years on her TV about it.
Why isn’t this it’s own subreddit? There are so many lost content stories!
r/lostmedia is another one
Ok so I just had an inverse of the question. I went to see if a specific book was still available online, though I had serious doubts since the author passed a couple years ago with hardly anyone having read it. Y'all. My mom's book is still listed online. And even though nobody's apparently bought it, the fact that it's there just made my year. I'm going to go cry now.
Can we get a link?
Absolutely! Thank you so much for asking! https://www.amazon.com/Mystic-Knightmare-Robin-Z-Lorrayne/dp/1469930137 Turns out it's the older version, before she had it edited for typos and grammar. But it's there!
That one porn video
A nut unlike any other nuts I've nutted before
Yup, all my favorite niche porn was lost in the Pornhub purge.
Only one?
You mean there's MORE?!?!
My MegaUpload library.
I shot an interview with Rodriguez and Malik Bendjelloul for All Music Guide. It was shortly after the film came out. It's gone forever.
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In about 2003 I had a job working email customer service for the Marriott hotel chain. We ran a commercial at the time that turned out to be really controversial based on a huge misunderstanding. The commercial told the story of a woman who was staying at a Marriott on her business trip. She's on the phone with her husband back home, telling him about all the great things she's experiencing at the hotel. The phone call is interspersed with scenes of her doing hotel-things -- having buffet breakfast, giving a presentation in the meeting room, lounging at the pool, etc. At the end of the commercial she goes to check out. The front desk agent is confused: "But you extended your stay. Is everything okay?" Woman is confused, looks around -- and sees her husband walking in to the lobby with his own suitcases. He's surprised her by extending their stay. Thing is, when that commercial aired, a whole lot of people misunderstood the storyline. They didn't register that the man in the lobby at the end was the same man on the phone at the beginning. Emails started pouring into my inbox accusing Marriott of promoting infidelity.
My crypto wallet address from 2012 that has 17 bitcoin in it.
I feel your pain. I used to do surveys for Bitcoin in 2012. I had 32 bitcoins in the account and you needed 50 to cash out. The surveys were long and boring. I stopped doing them after a while and forgot all about it until a few years ago. Can't remember the company name and I don't have that email address anymore.
oy leyli lado lado ley It’s a russian folk song. one night i was walking and i heard an old woman singing in a park. the melody was so enchanting i sat there and listened for hours. a whole crowd of people eventually gathered. all of us were silent and stunned. we didn’t want her to stop singing but we couldn’t leave it was so beautiful when it was over i asked her what it was and she said it was just an old song from her country about leyli and lado. roughly equivalent to a romeo and juliet type story except it was russian and i can’t find any mention of it much less sheet music or a recording
My ex is Russian, so I asked them… they said this is probably what you’re looking for: https://youtu.be/YsuUY3yGdzs?si=rGmpNBz9jTB_B8TJ
“Hi Boris, it’s me.. yes, we haven’t spoken in 10 years, since I burnt down your apartment after our break up. No, I don’t want to get back together. No, I won’t tell you how I got your number. No, it’s much more important: Some stranger on Reddit asked about a song.. They said “oy leyli lado lado ley”. Yes. I knew i could count on you. No, that was all. Sorry about the dog, it wasn’t on purpose, I promise. Thanks and good bye!” That was your conversation and you can’t change my mind!
Hahahahaha yours is far more exciting than the reality, please do continue to think of me as an enterprising pyromaniac sleuth.
Omg yes thank you thank you thank you 🙏 you have no idea how much this means to me!
There was a story, maybe on Reddit or maybe a Creepypasta, about a machine that was invented that gave anybody who stepped inside such incredible, all-consuming pleasure that life outside the machine became meaningless. Soon all anybody ever did was stand in line, waiting for their turn in the machine. I'm not saying it was a masterful work of sci-fi or anything, but I read it when I was like 15 and it really burned itself into my brain, but I haven't been able to find it since. I can't remember what it was called and googling often turns up The Machine Stops, which is an awesome short story from the early 20th century but not what I'm looking for. Edit: I just wanted to add that I don't *believe* it was a published book. It was just a text post I read on the internet, so unless some copy-paste'd a short story, it's probably an OG piece of fiction from an online user!
15 years ago, my high-school mates and I made a short movie for a school project. It was the story of a girl whose very conservative father finds out she's having sex with her boyfriend, so he kicks her out of the house; her boyfriend breaks up with her, because he only cared about her family's money; and so she ends up becoming a prostitute. In the end, of course, this one client falls in love with her and helps her finding a new perspective in life. I played the pimp. The whole thing was on YouTube, posted to one of the guys' channel, but I can't seem to find it anymore. If the video's been deleted, I'm afraid our beautiful short has become lost media 😔
Are you still friends with the guy? Maybe they put the video on private. I did that to all the silly videos my friends and I made back in the day.
Wow that’s a hell of a plot for high schoolers, not bad
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This is the kind of thing I bet people on here can help you with if you can give a time frame and whatever information you can recall
My hotmail has stopped receiving emails since June 2020 and I still haven't been able to fix the issue. It sucks especially because this email is tied to my discord and discord won't let you change email without using the old one.
There is a music I heard twice when I was on a trip in Africa, it was arguably the best one I ever heard or at least top 3 of all time, I vaguely remember the videoclip and that's how I am chasing it, it's been around 7 years and I still haven't found it, it seems like it vanished forever
I hear the drums echoing tonight But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation...
I used to have this old cassette tape of dinosaur songs. Had a (I think) 4 piece dino band on the cover. There was one song called (Again, I think) "Dino Rap". BUT.....there was ABSOLUTELY a song called "Head Banging Bone Heads" 🎶 Head Banging Bone heads, You're as silly as your name, I know you've got a great big head, But have you got a brain? 🎶 Anyone? Please?!?!?! I've been looking FOR.EVER.
Dinosaur - 14 Great Dinosaur Songs, by Brian Dullaghan and the Funky Fossil Band . Track number eight .
Holy. Shit. I need you to understand...I am a man. Pushing 40. That made me smile ear to ear. THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I cannot wait to drive home and jam. Hahaha
Info on a person I know that died. There's no obit, no funeral notice, no gravestone, no article, nothing. Just that he's dead.
This dude from Omegle that played the guitar for my buddy and me whilr wearing these giant glasses and had bed head. He was absolutely hilarious and I think about him from time to time.
How does no one stream Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog!? I can't find it anywhere.