The Internet is a wild place

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Goatse is missing
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  .on.nimp.org or whatever as well. Nothing like those days when your browser window could move itself around, duplicate windows, set your volume to 100%, the early internet was a WILD time.
  
  For me, the awakening to the vileness of the internet, was the "Offended" page on Encyclopedia Drammatica. People who wanted to ruins other's time on forums in a raid would basically post it as if it were a rickroll of sorts, just a completepy harmless comment with a link. And then the page would have 3 innocuous image right before showing you horrifying gore and body horror. I'm quite sure some of the most awful stuff usually on these lists, like screenshots of the guy who mutilates his own scrotum, were in there.

I am old enough now to know not to ever go to those sites.
- I only saw the 2 girls 1 cup because a friend showed it to me. I thankfully missed out on all the others but I am aware of them.

bless all the people who've seen those things and provide accurate descriptions so the rest of us don't have to bear that burden
- Agreed. I was aware of almost every one of those but never saw a single one.
  
  2 girls wasnt bad tbh. Disgusting, sure…but it wasnt someone taking an axe to their dick either

I miss the old internet. I loved how it hadn't seeped in to every part of my life yet. I liked that you had to use a PC as sort of a dimensional gate to enter the world of the weird. It meant most users were also a bit weird.
- I mean, one can still choose to do that, it's just weird now.

I'm gonna go ahead and guess this isn't the octopus girl from the meme?
- Lemmy should have the option to spoiler/NSFW pics in comments.
- It's close

I'm so grateful that even though I started using the internet fully unsupervised at 11 years old, I never stumbled upon anything fucked up like that, maybe a few gorey photos, but I have never actually seen any of those things you mentioned.
- Not sure if I just lack the morbid curiosity most people have, but I never understood the draw to look for those things. I'd hear about them and just put it on a mental list to never touch.

I only knew about the existence of some, not all, of the things listed on the geiser. Here starts that mental tug o war in which I want to satiate my curiosity but I'm also afraid of needing eyebleach.
- Eye bleach would definitely be needed.

This doesn’t even have rotten on it. Want to see some dudes head get chopped off? Rotten has you covered, baby sliced into sushimi? It had that.
- I'm pretty sure most (if not all) of them were fake.
- Rotten and Ogreish, the first two gore sites I ever stumbled upon.
  I'll never forget the dude impaled on the fence post, just twitching.
- No wayyy, I never saw that last one

Damn, I don't know what any of these are except for the last one and luckily I've never seen it. I've been on the internet for a long time.

If the internet has taught me something. Take everything as a literal and never check the unknown especially when people tell you not to. You may just find something much worse than the last worse stuff.

I don't know if anyone knows what I'm talking about but apparently "tubgirl" is different from the "tubgirl" I know. Acourding to Urban Dictionary, the more well known tubgirl is pretty tame compared to the one I saw.
I wont go into any detail about the one I knew about but it contained a woman in a bathtub and a bucket full of cow guts and blood.

I would rather watch 1hour of 2G1C, than watch 5 mins of 3 guys 1 hammer. Poor man...
If anyone is curious: Is two young men beating an old man w/a hammer till his death! Don't watch it, unless you want to spend some days w/the video in your mind!
- I agree, 2g1c is way hotter

It'd been so many years and I can still perfectly visualize these images in my head. I would like to delete these files from my brain.
Also eel soup.

I only knew one "Item" from the list. Googled "Octopus Girl"l, read the description and was done with that list.
Told my wife "you dont believe what i just read" - she refused to listen.