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Ask HN: What are your favorite internet rabbit holes?

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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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orbz
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/

japhyr
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...

bombcar
DVGs is fine for the hoi polli but the real connoisseurs are all about Bill Ewasko (finally located).
mapmap
Does Tom have recent writings on this? I could only find news articles from 2022.
bombcar
You have to go to YouTube and some of the other people searching.

This is a good one: https://youtu.be/2J9wsJb8P1Y

(Part one is good too, but part two is the theorizing one)

runjake
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.

hnthrowaway0328
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).
AK42
Ask.metafilter.com is a good one
is_true
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

mkbkn
Askreddit subreddit
DylanSp
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.
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Nicholas_C
If only StumbleUpon was still around...
caravan778
why nobody mentions conspiracy theories? i think its a great mental exercise
altdataseller
Mentour Pilot series in YouTube explaining what happened behind many airplane crashes