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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/

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Why the no shit for 3 days lemmy post guy wanted to not shit for 3 days

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They were getting ready for a trip on a Titan submarine.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Do people still know about TimeCube these days? Not sure if that counts as a "mystery" per se, but it certainly has an air of the unknown.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Clintons live here.

XD

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The other similar case is 'the ball on a string' guy who went to different communitites including on reddit for years to promote his weird theory. IIRC his theory was that balls on strings of different sizes has their surface rotate at the similar speed if the central axis has a constant rotational speed too. Although many people tried to explain it to him, he insisted that larger ball therefore would spin like a Ferrari's wheel.

These cases are all depressive rather than mysterious.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's fun to laugh at these weird theories, but a bit depressing when you realize a lot of them come from a place of serious mental illness.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's that one celebrity who firmly believes that 1 * 1 is 2, or something equally bizarre...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's probably fine as long as they don't try to push it onto others. Hope they don't.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I was not prepared to remember the Time Cube when clicking on this thread...

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was recently recommended an internet mystery by YouTube. I didn't know about it until then (and I'm generally pretty online), so it's probably not well known.

It's the song, Like the Wind (or Blind the Wind). Story goes that a kid recorded the song in 1984 from a West German radio station, but he didn't catch the name of the song nor the band. Eventually, the recording got posted online, and strangely enough, nobody online seems to recognize it. It's still unknown where this song came from. People call it Like the Wind (or Blind the Wind) because that's what the first 3 words of the song sound like. Speculation is that it's probably from an East German indie rock band that got disbanded, but at this time, it'll probably never be solved

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Got wrapped up into that a while back, an interesting tangent is the song So Do I by DCO, which was similarly lost until one of the band's original members recognized it and posted it online. Said member did confirm that TMMS/Like The Wind is not a song they made, tho.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Did anyone ever work out who Satoshi Nakamoto is?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Every few years I look up if new evidence has been found and/or new suspects show up.

It's always entertaining, but I'm guessing Satoshi Sakamoto is as smart as they come and we'll never know who he/she is.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Based on what I've read, Len Sassaman seems the most likely candidate, but certainly nothing has been confirmed.

I quite certain however that douchebag extrordinaire, Craig Wrigh, is NOT Satoshi.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

No but Barely Sociable on Youtube did a pretty interesting documentary with some of his own theories on it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Some have speculated that Nakamoto is an alias for Adam Beck, or one of the other founders. It is known that nakamoto was living in a European timezone.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can’t tell you. It’s a little known mystery. If everyone knew, it wouldn’t be little known.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

just tell it quietly. I won't tell anyone

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

casually sidles over and stares intently at a nearby vase of flowers

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That one's on Arthur Dent, I think.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, for starters, how does it work.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I thought that one was solved decades ago;

The internet is a series of tubes

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

My favorite line is often overlooked-

"It's not a big truck!"

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I love the John Titor story, because it's so detailed and rich, but it obviously has to be fake because the 2038 issue has been solved by 64 bit timestamps, and it's impossible that we wouldn't have advanced to 64 bit processors because of the RAM limits that 32 bits impose. Phones have more RAM than what a 32 bit computer can handle, and we're over a decade away from 2038.

It's like someone claiming to be a time traveller going back to the 50s to get an abacus to help prevent the Y2K bug.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Steins;Gate season 1 did it better. =p

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Steins;Gate VN did it better than the anime.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What actually ever happened to the Tourette's Guy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Oh Bob Saget!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That was what was reported on the website, but then there was a video of him still alive and well a few years later, then someone claimed he had been in jail, then nothing

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cicada . Also i am saving this thread for future use.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Lake City Quiet Pills

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

There might still be the "Twitter numbers" accounts that post some set of numbers or words at specific times.

Basically it's just the internet version of the "radio numbers" or "radio codes" that are radio signals that randomly or schedule voice a set of numbers or words. There go back decades.

The theory is that it's a commutation network for spies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

There's all the young kids who went viral in the early 2000s, often because the internet made fun of them.

The mystery was would they turn out to have horrible lives.

But it's been so long they've all grown up and no one remembers them and they have normal lives.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's the evergreen: What good is Virtual Reality, other than some games?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Because it was "so long" ago, LonelyGirl15.

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