Ask HN: What are your favorite internet rabbit holes? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite internet rabbit holes?

#11

Post by FreezingKeeper » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 9:57 PM UTC

Always an amazing read for me

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

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite internet rabbit holes?

#12

Post by smada » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 10:30 PM UTC

chinacat's massive thumbprint lsd story from shroomery.org

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

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite internet rabbit holes?

#13

Post by bombcar » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 12:03 AM UTC

japhyr wrote: post #3

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...

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

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite internet rabbit holes?

#14

Post by is_true » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 12:42 AM UTC

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

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite internet rabbit holes?

#15

Post by mkbkn » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 1:10 AM UTC

Askreddit subreddit

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite internet rabbit holes?

#16

Post by ledauphin » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 1:32 AM UTC

FreezingKeeper wrote: post #11

Always an amazing read for me https://forum.expeditionportal.com/threads/democratic-republ...

wow.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite internet rabbit holes?

#17

Post by DylanSp » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 1:32 AM UTC

orbz wrote: post #2

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/

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

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite internet rabbit holes?

#18

Post by DylanSp » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 1:36 AM UTC

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.