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There was a website, I think flash, once where you could set some parameters; things like proportions, steps of the harmonic series, interval ratios, etc. Then you could start the animation, which was a series of dots around a circle that would chime their pitch as they passed a specific spot.

I went looking for it a few years back but could never find it again. It drove me batty for a while. I even shared some emails with smalin, an awesome music animator but he said he’d seen something like it I believe but didn’t have a link.

Anyway, now there are polyrhythm videos like this, which is similar. But it isn’t interactive and doesn’t show the interesting math actually taking place.

I am a programmer and could of course make something like it, but I really just want it back.

Not really internet. I remember a video I saw when I was a kid, like 6-7 years old. It must've run alongside Sesame Street or something, because that was the only stuff I was allowed to watch back then. It was some sort of PSA about wearing a seat belt. A father, who was also an actor on the German Sesame Street, was picking up his young daughter, she sat in the backseat. She wanted to show him what she learned playing the recorder and played a bit for him. He had to break, looked back and saw the flute sticking out his daughter's mouth. That fucking thing sticks with me to this day. Must've been early 80s on German TV. I have no hope of ever being able to traumatize others with that shit, but I wish I could just so I can talk about it.

Mine is a video. In my memory it's a well-produced, fast-paced, choreographed fight scene featuring the Power Rangers battling a band of generic goons for possession of some MacGuffin: a crystal or orb or whatever. The twist is, the whole thing is set to the song Run by Ghostface Killah. Every few years I look for it, and always come up empty-handed.

I remember this flash game I played as a kid that was a sci fi tower defense where each level you were trying to stave off a... Purple fog? Something like that.. Just long enough so your colony could launch off planet to escape the allconsuming purple atmosphere. I have no clue what it's called and have tried looking it up but to no avail. If anyone here knows what it's called I would be indebted

Edit: thanks for the suggestions folks it was neither outpost nor the creeper world games

There was an animated video, hand drawn, animated on the 1s and smooth as fuck. It was two orbs colliding and battling like they were atoms, and then at the end of the video it was a nuclear explosion. Or something like that. This would have been from like 20+ years ago back on Newgrounds or something, but I'll be damned if I can find it.

Mine is pretty dumb, but it was a joke website from 2000-ish called One Day I Will Walk Like Walt Disney. Years later I remembered it but couldn't find it; but I eventually did thanks to the Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080421024049/http://members.shaw.ca/mcramer1/index.html

It has different sections including Brain Teasers (Aunt Fredererick's Sand was my favorite), and "Don't believe it or do" with such interesting facts as:

Contrary to popular belief, the Titanic never hit an iceberg and sank in 1912. Rather, it sailed successfully to New York City many times. It was finally decommissioned in 1978 and converted into a pinball arcade.

I used to listen to this spooky paranormal radio show when I was young with my dad that was either hosted by or called Nacho Limón. I think it was either from the late 90s or early 00's. But I could never find any references to it online.

I have a rather silly one.

Back in the old Youtube days, I think before Google took over. There was a fake parody trailer made for David Lynch's Dune. It basically reimagined the film with fart jokes. As immature as it was, it was still funny. But now it's long gone and I wish I could show it to my friends.

Old(ish) pieces of fiction I don't seem to find anywhere or in a language I speak: An old Kdrama from the 90's that arguing against abortion (I promise the story is better than that). I found it subbed in indonesian and I might end up learning korean just to finish it. I've recently write to a publishing company trying to find if an out of print comic has being even published in hard cover past a certain tome. The magazine they were published in are relatively rare.

Of course, I could fixe my issues with a few card payement but where would be the game?

An artsy short (Vimeo?) about some girl hanging out her very stylish, beige apartment while a voiceover talsk very intimimately to her. In the end the voiceover talks about being eaten up, and the girl kinda swallows some pudding thing?

It had a slightly french vibe I think, though not as overtly erotic as it sounds.

A comment on reddit that succinctly outlined the difference between private enterprise and government. So perfectly worded I was in awe.

at least you have the songs.

https://www.shazam.com/

I did a similar thing with very, very, low quality DI shows I ripped with winamp over 56k.

I've got a couple.

One was a dark comedy sketch that a friend showed me in, I want to say '99(?). A couple appear to be in therapy, and the doctor asks how this started. They recount through flashbacks a series of more extreme requests under the guise of "if you loved me, you would do it". At one point one of them definitely made a piece of toast and put nail clipping on it, then told the other that "if you loved me, you would eat it". The sketch concludes >! showing that they were actually in a final surgical consult and the last scene is them being wheeled into surgery to be joined at the hip!<

The other is a comic strip where a couple people are working on their computers when either a song starts playing, or one person starts saying "shoop shoop shoop shoop-a-doop" and stylistically dancing while putting on their jacket. As they dance to the exit the other person says "shoop a doop?" and then the first dances their way off frame

There's a "famous" gore video showing a Russian soldier being brutally murdered by Chechen rebels. Ya'll probably already know what I'm talking about, so I don't need to explain (and if you haven't seen it or don't know what it is, don't bother looking for it, it's not nice and does you no good to have it on your psychic hard drive). Since seeing that clip in ~2000, I've desperately wanted to know the man's identity and the circumstances in which he was killed. I've had people swear to me that they also saw the clip, but the version they saw was quite a bit longer than the ~20-second clip everyone is aware of, and they describe some details that could well be useful in identifying him, but alas this alleged longer version seems to have vanished entirely, if it ever existed. The version we have is obviously heavily-edited, lots of quick cuts and time-jumps, so there is at least a version without all of that, somewhere.

Trust me when I say that I've looked into this issue on and off for the last 25 years, and I have heard many bullshit claims about who he is: they're all wrong and provably so. I've watched hundreds (literally) of clips from that conflict that show barbarity of one degree or another, and in doing so I have identified the clips that specific reports and testimonies are alluding to when they claim to have identified the victim. None of them is our guy, it's always some other video clip where some other Russian is knifed by a Chechen (there're a lot of such clips).

There was a user on a gore forum who uploaded the Tukhchar massacre (safe click) video in full, and he claimed to have the full version of our mystery clip, but refused to post it and grew increasingly hostile the more people asked him for it, eventually taking his ball and going home by stating his intention to never post it because people were mean to him. He was obviously a bullshitter who had a few good uploads and decided to use that momentum to generate hype around this other 'holy grail' clip which he almost certainly did not have. Other than that one prick, nobody online has access to the full video or the identity of the man. At least, not on the English-speaking internet.

I've seen a lot of awful videos on the net, but there's something about that one in particular that really energised me to find out who he is. I guess it being the first video of that kind I ever saw would probably have something to do with it, but it's also just so fucking cold. You could sense the all-consuming hatred in the killers in the way they staged the scene and the matter-of-fact way they slaughtered him. Just pure inhumanity. There are "worse" videos, there are drug cartel videos that would make a Spanish Inquisitor lose his lunch, but man, that Russian dude is always lingering in my mind.

Mine was a super-specific and overpowered Dungeons and Dragons custom class for elves, that basically got cool powers from all the other classes. I'm pretty sure the class was called "Knights of Rillifane" and I came across it originally in a Compuserve message board.

As I say, it's not a good bit of game design, and it's certainly not important. But given how big the d&d loving community has been in Internet history, and how 'collectory' they are, it really surprises me that it hasn't been compiled into a netbook or turn up on a geocities website somewhere.