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/
Why the no shit for 3 days lemmy post guy wanted to not shit for 3 days
They were getting ready for a trip on a Titan submarine.
Possibly the underlying cause of the explosive decompression.
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.
Clintons live here.
XD
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.
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.
There’s that one celebrity who firmly believes that 1 * 1 is 2, or something equally bizarre…
It’s probably fine as long as they don’t try to push it onto others. Hope they don’t.
well tell us about it
is it that schizo guy with weird theories?
Yep, you got it.
Down The Rabbit Hole did an episode about the guy.
Similarly, the Terry Davis episode is a wild ride.
Also, here’s a backup of TimeCube for anyone uninitiated: https://timecube.xyz/
I felt myself getting a brain tumor while reading that, I’ll have to come back to it later
I was not prepared to remember the Time Cube when clicking on this thread…
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
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.
Just like everybody knows https://youtu.be/ZmTcIh632VM?si=yDNEMk09wk-mX-et
So catchy
I mean, for starters, how does it work.
I thought that one was solved decades ago;
The internet is a series of tubes
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.
My favorite line is often overlooked-
“It’s not a big truck!”
Honestly this one is for our benefit, A lot of stuff thats free and universally compatable (like email) is that way because the ancient sages who forged the internet built the protocols for that shit into its very backbone so no one could fuck it up later (wether by incredible forsight or lazy implementation who knows). The day someone at google re-discovers/deciphers how all that shit works at once is the day a lot of stuff we don’t even think about suddenly turns into walled gardens.
To be clear despite some dramatic word choice its not like lost knowledge or anything but its obscure enough that no single person likely has all the pieces to safely make any signfiicant changes.
Does this count? An oldie but a goodie.
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.
Steins;Gate season 1 did it better. =p
Steins;Gate VN did it better than the anime.
What actually ever happened to the Tourette’s Guy?
I thought he died?
Oh Bob Saget!!
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
It’s pretty obvious that Tourettes Guy is an actor. But it’s hilarious nonetheless
Cicada . Also i am saving this thread for future use.
I’m pretty sure a YouTube channel researched this one pretty thoroughly. Try checking out the Why Files. The entire channel is fascinating, intertwining, and informative.
Lake City Quiet Pills
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.
You mean number stations?
Yes! Thanks for the correct name.
I wish the Lincolnshire poacher still ran
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.
Because it was “so long” ago, LonelyGirl15.
There’s the evergreen: What good is Virtual Reality, other than some games?
Also useful for enterprise, design - seeing a car in a space when it doesn’t exist yet is a useful tool. Looking into every nook is possible, sitting in the cockpit, etc. Doing it in a CAD package isn’t the same.
Also, it’s good for training and losing weight without leaving the house, provided you are consistent with it and have a good diet.
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It’s so you can look up the person’s name to see if they have more content available somewhere.
As an alternative reply, if you were trying to make a joke, that wasn’t a clever one.
Almost all the “internet mysteries” I hear of turn out to be overblown normal things, such as that Cicada 1138 thing which turned out to be not an agency recruiting tool but a band gimmick, or that missing Nova Scotia guy who had been known for years but whose identity was ignored to keep the vibes going. The closest things to what you’re asking would be stuff like what you’d find on r/TOMT.
It’s Cicada 3301 and I have no idea where you heard the “band gimmick” thing but it’s just not true. I mean… It doesn’t even make any sense. If it was a gimmick to get a band popular then it did an insanely bad job at doing so after multiple puzzles across multiple years and swearing the winners to privacy.
Was trying to say Cicada 3301 went nowhere. It’s been a decade. The puzzle gave no assurance that it wasn’t some amateur thing to start out with, and there was a TopTenz video that showed the end of the clue hunting puzzles was simply some obscure musical band making a game with no other prize than front row seats to a personal performance.
Another example of overblownness, if we may call it that, is the CIA’s supposed Kryptos statue. Or the Gravity Falls puzzle. When was the last time you heard a puzzle actually culminate or clarify the “race” ended? How do people think cults work?
I cannot find a single credible source for the band thing. There is a band called Cicada 3301 but they are completely unrelated. They named themselves after it but do not have any connection or affiliation. I wouldn’t exactly use a Top 10 video as a reputable source.
As for Kryptos, it’s a world famous and unsolved bit of cryptography. If it’s overblown then solve it?
I mean its status as a piece of world class cryptography is overblown. Anyone can jumble a message together and say it’s something special. I have a coding reputation and can attest there’s strength in having applicability be in the balance. Not only that, but the amount of times the sculptor had to correct himself, and the fact that the decoded messages are jibberish even when decoded, just makes it sound like he wanted to kill time.
You have been consistently and provably wrong throughout this entire exchange. Forgive me, but your opinion on its status holds exactly zero weight. Especially when you said that you heard the Cicada 3301 thing (something you got the name wrong of) from a TopTenz video.
I’m going to stick with the people who have worked with the NSA for years and who have broken the first three codes into something that was not jibberish. While I abhor what the NSA does, they are good at what they do. Which is cryptography. And if they’re saying that it actually is something, as well as every other expert in the field, then I’m going to believe that over someone who has a coding reputation.
This is a waste of my time lol
Is Wikipedia a good enough source for you, because I linked to that too, as long as you wish to posit I am “provably wrong”. Aside from solving it, the NSA, who like anyone in existence can only go by the knowledge given to them in preparation (hence why it took an AI to solve the Zodiac Killer messages, as if one killer is more capable than a whole agency), did not in particular have anything to actually say about the code, which comes off as randomly assembled utterances if you go down to the “solutions” section of the page, the code explicitly having connotations with the CIA, who admitted in the very same section…
On April 19, 2006, Sanborn contacted an online community dedicated to the Kryptos puzzle to inform them that what was once the accepted solution to passage 2 was incorrect. Sanborn said that he made an error in the sculpture by omitting an S in the ciphertext (an X in the plaintext), and he confirmed that the last passage of the plaintext was WESTXLAYERTWO, and not WESTIDBYROWS.
The only reason I haven’t given more sources is due to the temporary rule on Lemmy right now to only use sources from known sites in order to make it easier to spot spam. Had this not been an issue, I’m sure you’d be asked right about now about your, erm, sources.
