Ask HN: What are your favorite internet rabbit holes?

54 pointsadminu2y ago26 comments

I am collecting my favorite internet rabbit holes on my website (https://ph-uhl.com/links/internet-rabbit-holes/) and went through my old lists but I think I lost a few of the good ones.

So I was wandering, what are your favorites? The stuff that you loose a night to, when finding it?

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japhyr2y ago

The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans always comes up in these threads. I've read through it a couple times over the years, and probably will again at some point.

https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hu...

bombcar2y ago

DVGs is fine for the hoi polli but the real connoisseurs are all about Bill Ewasko (finally located).

mapmap2y ago

Does Tom have recent writings on this? I could only find news articles from 2022.

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runjake2y ago

If you like the outdoors, this 16-years running thread is a good, very long rabbit hole.

The premise is "What's the weirdest thing you found in the woods when you were out in the middle of nowhere?". It has everything from Bigfoot, to Old West stuff, to UFOs, to cultists, to dead bodies.

https://www.ifish.net/threads/weird-findings-in-the-woods.14...

I first read it over several days and check back every year or so for new posts.

orbz2y ago

The SCP Foundation[1] always gives me fond memories of growing up watching the X-Files and similar shows.

Also TV Tropes[2] is fun to learn how derivative or novel aspects of your favorite shows are.

1: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/

2: https://tvtropes.org/

DylanSp2y ago

And you can combine them - the TV Tropes for the SCP Foundation is one way to find SCPs to read! Browse the Nightmare Fuel pages [1] for horror, or the Funny pages [2] for a more comedic approach.

1: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/SCPFoun...

2: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Funny/SCPFoundation

FreezingKeeper2y ago

Always an amazing read for me

https://forum.expeditionportal.com/threads/democratic-republ...

kriberg2y ago

Holy bananas, what an adventure. Thanks for linking this :)

ledauphin2y ago

wow.

Lammy2y ago

https://tcrf.net/ — it’s cool to get a window into the creative process

cpach2y ago

https://www.folklore.org/

smada2y ago

chinacat's massive thumbprint lsd story from shroomery.org

https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/1...

hnthrowaway03282y ago

Actually archive.org has a tons of interesting stuffs. I downloaded all Dragon magazines and many ADND 2e modules so that once I semi-retired I can convert some modules into computer games, given that we have an appropriate engine then (Neverwinter nights is a good one but it's going to be too old 15 years from now).

CrypticShift2y ago

https://www.are.na/ as a network of connected channels.

Random example channel: https://www.are.na/krish/visions-of-the-web

DylanSp2y ago

The Digital Antiquarian has a _lot_ of interesting writing about the early history of video gaming and home computing. https://www.filfre.net/sitemap/ has the full list of posts, starting from the beginning of the blog; the history they cover is mostly in chronological order.

is_true2y ago

Old maps and stuff related to some places I go often.

I've found old bottles and to date them I started looking for archives of old newspapers. Worst use of my time, haha

shoebham2y ago

https://theforest.link/

this site redirects you to random cool websites.

altdataseller2y ago

Mentour Pilot series in YouTube explaining what happened behind many airplane crashes

saintradon2y ago

cicada 3301 is up there

DarrisMackelroy2y ago

The Bobbit Worm Chronicles: https://www.michiganreefers.com/threads/the-bobbit-worm-chro...

tldr: a guy spends a LONG time trying to kill a bobbit worm in his fish tank

anakaine2y ago

I found myself trying to remember the name of this recently. Thank you!

Nicholas_C2y ago

If only StumbleUpon was still around...

caravan7782y ago

why nobody mentions conspiracy theories? i think its a great mental exercise

mkbkn2y ago

Askreddit subreddit

AK422y ago

Ask.metafilter.com is a good one

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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japhyr2y ago

The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans always comes up in these threads. I've read through it a couple times over the years, and probably will again at some point.

https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hu...

bombcar2y ago

DVGs is fine for the hoi polli but the real connoisseurs are all about Bill Ewasko (finally located).

mapmap2y ago

Does Tom have recent writings on this? I could only find news articles from 2022.

1 more reply

runjake2y ago

If you like the outdoors, this 16-years running thread is a good, very long rabbit hole.

The premise is "What's the weirdest thing you found in the woods when you were out in the middle of nowhere?". It has everything from Bigfoot, to Old West stuff, to UFOs, to cultists, to dead bodies.

https://www.ifish.net/threads/weird-findings-in-the-woods.14...

I first read it over several days and check back every year or so for new posts.

orbz2y ago

The SCP Foundation[1] always gives me fond memories of growing up watching the X-Files and similar shows.

Also TV Tropes[2] is fun to learn how derivative or novel aspects of your favorite shows are.

1: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/

2: https://tvtropes.org/

DylanSp2y ago

And you can combine them - the TV Tropes for the SCP Foundation is one way to find SCPs to read! Browse the Nightmare Fuel pages [1] for horror, or the Funny pages [2] for a more comedic approach.

1: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/SCPFoun...

2: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Funny/SCPFoundation

FreezingKeeper2y ago

Always an amazing read for me

https://forum.expeditionportal.com/threads/democratic-republ...

kriberg2y ago

Holy bananas, what an adventure. Thanks for linking this :)

ledauphin2y ago

wow.

Lammy2y ago

https://tcrf.net/ — it’s cool to get a window into the creative process

cpach2y ago