Back in the early nineties, I had a book called something like The Internet White Pages (I forget). It contained 100k email addresses. My friend had his email listed in it, and he’d use it as a flex. Then, Spam was invented.
My email was in one of those.
I joined by the end of the nineties when we had “Yellow Pages” CDs and new metasearch engines. This feels like a repeat.
I had a sort of internet Yellow Pages before search engines worked well enough. It was a monster list of URLs pointing to new and cool things to do on the internet.
Did it actually contain identifying info, or just the addresses?
IIRC, it contained whatever finger returned. So, in my friend’s case his full name and email address.
Well that sucks.
Indeed. Especially given that they never asked the address owners. They just scraped them all.
We used to have to type in the QR codes by hand.
Unofficial and Unauthorized
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Should’ve been a VHS tape.
And how many of those QR codes send you to Never Gonna Give You Up?
The guitarist is Chris Hadfield, astronaut. Out of this world.
Is Someone Singing is a great song too!
Wait is that a book? I’m so confused now. Even with the QR codes.
So what’s in it? Transcripts? Or just QR codes? No, my brain still refuses.
QR codes that link to the Youtube videos, I assume. Maybe some brief commentary on each one.
And lots of white space.
I bet the text is just as cringey on every video. Somebody got paid to write that!
This one’s still up btw and it’s bad.
It made it into the 150 Most Awesome Youtube Videos, of course it’s still up. Can you imagine what a loss for our culture it’d be if it was taken down?
I can’t because I couldn’t stomach it but yeah these are cultural artefacts that need to be preserved. Even ads.
Looked it up and it’s exactly as you say.
I would not have expected an internet book in 2014. Fucking weird.
thats a pretty gross way of framing miley.
It’s from a real concert. Some people were real mad at her for that.
ohhh… yeah i think i remember that. huh. thats a pretty gross way of framing yourself, miley.
In her defence though, she was Behaving Badly
The Miley who did that in concert while hanging out her tongue the whole time? Exactly how she was aiming to be framed.
