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Everyone else can see the weird mannequin here, right? Please tell me you can see that.
This may well be the best map of Waterloo station I've seen so far.
posted by slimepuppy at 5:54 AM on February 13 [5 favorites]
This may well be the best map of Waterloo station I've seen so far.
posted by slimepuppy at 5:54 AM on February 13 [5 favorites]
It is sort of astonishing that this type of page would not have succumbed to link rot.
Tangentially, what happens when a website owner dies? Leaving them to someone in your will feels like bequeathing a particularly uncharismatic pet.
posted by eirias at 6:05 AM on February 13 [10 favorites]
Tangentially, what happens when a website owner dies? Leaving them to someone in your will feels like bequeathing a particularly uncharismatic pet.
posted by eirias at 6:05 AM on February 13 [10 favorites]
eirias, I totally agree. Amazingly enough, I was looking for this site just a few months ago as I remembered it as clever and fun, and thought it had died. It has absolutely NO google juice - unless you search for "2" instead of "to" which I'm sure I was doing.
posted by scolbath at 6:20 AM on February 13 [2 favorites]
posted by scolbath at 6:20 AM on February 13 [2 favorites]
Everyone else can see the weird mannequin here, right? Please tell me you can see that.
This guy? Nope.
posted by Thorzdad at 6:35 AM on February 13 [2 favorites]
This guy? Nope.
posted by Thorzdad at 6:35 AM on February 13 [2 favorites]
This is great. Just the kind of thing you would love the internet for back in the day. I'll come back and read the rest later!
posted by Countess Elena at 6:57 AM on February 13 [7 favorites]
posted by Countess Elena at 6:57 AM on February 13 [7 favorites]
This guy? Nope.
Why are you linking photos of Andrew Lloyd Webber?
posted by pipeski at 7:01 AM on February 13 [10 favorites]
Why are you linking photos of Andrew Lloyd Webber?
posted by pipeski at 7:01 AM on February 13 [10 favorites]
That's pretty cute for the creepy doll -- it's an on hover-over change of the image over to the Hell door.
<a href="page326.html" onMouseOver="button.src=our_image.src;">
<IMG name="button" SRC=pic326b.gif WIDTH="90%"></a>
Assuming your mouse is centered when you click the link, you just get the snapshot of the doll before it fades back to Hell.
posted by miguelcervantes at 7:18 AM on February 13 [2 favorites]
<a href="page326.html" onMouseOver="button.src=our_image.src;">
<IMG name="button" SRC=pic326b.gif WIDTH="90%"></a>
Assuming your mouse is centered when you click the link, you just get the snapshot of the doll before it fades back to Hell.
posted by miguelcervantes at 7:18 AM on February 13 [2 favorites]
it's an on hover-over change of the image over to the Hell door.
Huh. I was expecting that it was an animated gif, but no, there's just one frame in there.
posted by Ickster at 7:48 AM on February 13
Huh. I was expecting that it was an animated gif, but no, there's just one frame in there.
posted by Ickster at 7:48 AM on February 13
it's an on hover-over change of the image over to the Hell door.
On mobile (iPhone/Safari) it only shows the handsome doll, but if I tap the image, it briefly shows the door image.
posted by Doleful Creature at 7:54 AM on February 13
On mobile (iPhone/Safari) it only shows the handsome doll, but if I tap the image, it briefly shows the door image.
posted by Doleful Creature at 7:54 AM on February 13
Previously, 22 years ago.
God, I remember. This is like a welcome blast of sulphurous air from the remote past, a welcome reminder of the happier days of my long-lost late middle age.
posted by Phanx at 8:30 AM on February 13 [6 favorites]
God, I remember. This is like a welcome blast of sulphurous air from the remote past, a welcome reminder of the happier days of my long-lost late middle age.
posted by Phanx at 8:30 AM on February 13 [6 favorites]
~it's an on hover-over change of the image over to the Hell door.
~On mobile (iPhone/Safari) it only shows the handsome doll, but if I tap the image, it briefly shows the door image.
On my ancient desktop Firefox, the doll image is what initially displays, and it stays displayed until you mouse-over, upon which it switches to the door image.
posted by Thorzdad at 8:40 AM on February 13
~On mobile (iPhone/Safari) it only shows the handsome doll, but if I tap the image, it briefly shows the door image.
On my ancient desktop Firefox, the doll image is what initially displays, and it stays displayed until you mouse-over, upon which it switches to the door image.
posted by Thorzdad at 8:40 AM on February 13
The real entrance to hell was the 22 years between this and the previously.
posted by srboisvert at 9:09 AM on February 13 [31 favorites]
posted by srboisvert at 9:09 AM on February 13 [31 favorites]
I remember back in the 80’s a friend and I were obsessed with finding the supposed gates of hell in Vienna. I can’t remember what weird esoteric reading led us to believe there were gates in Vienna but that’s what too much coffee and your bored 20’s will do to you.
posted by misterpatrick at 9:20 AM on February 13 [3 favorites]
posted by misterpatrick at 9:20 AM on February 13 [3 favorites]
Our real friends are the entrances to Hell we crossed along the way.
posted by GenjiandProust at 9:31 AM on February 13 [5 favorites]
posted by GenjiandProust at 9:31 AM on February 13 [5 favorites]
This site looks exactly like a site from 2002 would look, mostly because it is a site from 2002. Kudos for not bowing to design trends and for keeping it going long after most people would have given up.
posted by tommasz at 9:38 AM on February 13 [4 favorites]
posted by tommasz at 9:38 AM on February 13 [4 favorites]
several of them have mouseover events, some more subtle than others
posted by glonous keming at 10:50 AM on February 13 [1 favorite]
posted by glonous keming at 10:50 AM on February 13 [1 favorite]
I swear Mamandad is just Yermum after the divorce, and Elite was able to fit 8 galaxies on a floppy disc in the 1980s, it's now a Frontier marked as Dangerous in a business park north of Cambridge.
Note also that Aaaaarry is also known as The Spare.
posted by k3ninho at 10:54 AM on February 13
Note also that Aaaaarry is also known as The Spare.
posted by k3ninho at 10:54 AM on February 13
it's missing the arrivals terminal in Heathrow
posted by seanmpuckett at 11:09 AM on February 13 [2 favorites]
posted by seanmpuckett at 11:09 AM on February 13 [2 favorites]
Tangentially, what happens when a website owner dies?
Not paying the hosting fees would probably take down a simple site like this one. The more cutting edge whizzy stuff on the page the less likely it'll survive technology/security changes but plain non dynamic pages should be fine.
However it probably wouldn't take much money to permanently endow something like this and even less to just fund it for a lifetime.
And I'd bet there are websites out there created by people since deceased that are being kept alive by family as a memory/tribute.
posted by Mitheral at 11:54 AM on February 13 [3 favorites]
Not paying the hosting fees would probably take down a simple site like this one. The more cutting edge whizzy stuff on the page the less likely it'll survive technology/security changes but plain non dynamic pages should be fine.
However it probably wouldn't take much money to permanently endow something like this and even less to just fund it for a lifetime.
And I'd bet there are websites out there created by people since deceased that are being kept alive by family as a memory/tribute.
posted by Mitheral at 11:54 AM on February 13 [3 favorites]
This site is a wonder, and I agree it feels like a survival of the good ol' internet, somehow escaped the depredations of the Tyrannosaurs and SEO Mavens that have ruined so much else of the webscape.
posted by JHarris at 12:42 PM on February 13 [4 favorites]
posted by JHarris at 12:42 PM on February 13 [4 favorites]
A reliable global torrent like system for static content would plausibly make simple sights last forever.
Until then we have the wayback machine.
posted by NotAYakk at 2:16 PM on February 13 [2 favorites]
Until then we have the wayback machine.
posted by NotAYakk at 2:16 PM on February 13 [2 favorites]
Seems like Neil Gaiman could use this for source material.
posted by Ishbadiddle at 5:18 PM on February 13
posted by Ishbadiddle at 5:18 PM on February 13
Having heard at least one folktale about the Devil being injured and walking with a limp, it's not too surprising that the tradition continues in the descriptions here.
Oh, and it should come as no surprise that the US has entrances to Hell too (Waybacked).
posted by BiggerJ at 5:55 PM on February 13 [1 favorite]
Oh, and it should come as no surprise that the US has entrances to Hell too (Waybacked).
posted by BiggerJ at 5:55 PM on February 13 [1 favorite]
I'd ask if the London Underground at Hobbs End was included, but I guess that's technically more of an exit from Hell to earth. (Or an entrance to Hell on Earth?)
posted by gtrwolf at 6:48 PM on February 13
posted by gtrwolf at 6:48 PM on February 13
Given what's going on in the world these days, how can we be sure these aren't actually exits from hell?
posted by dg at 6:59 PM on February 13 [2 favorites]
posted by dg at 6:59 PM on February 13 [2 favorites]
‘Why, this is Hell, nor am I out of it’
posted by Phanx at 10:31 PM on February 13 [2 favorites]
posted by Phanx at 10:31 PM on February 13 [2 favorites]
Given what's going on in the world these days, how can we be sure these aren't actually exits from hell?
I've not been to hell to see if I could get internet service or post to Metafilter -- I'm sincerely very sorry if you are posting from hell -- so I'd use them to exit here and enter hell. (The notes suggestion they work in both directions.)
posted by k3ninho at 12:25 AM on February 14
I've not been to hell to see if I could get internet service or post to Metafilter -- I'm sincerely very sorry if you are posting from hell -- so I'd use them to exit here and enter hell. (The notes suggestion they work in both directions.)
posted by k3ninho at 12:25 AM on February 14
Yo! Yo! Homies, check it. There's something messed up with this place.We keep fighting with each other, not one of the TVs get the NFL Red Zone Channel, my soulmate doesn't even know who Blake Bortles is. I know this sounds crazy, but, I think we're in the Bad Place.
posted by Reverend John at 12:28 PM on February 14 [1 favorite]
posted by Reverend John at 12:28 PM on February 14 [1 favorite]
Is Rishi Sunak’s mouth on the list?
posted by mephron at 3:12 AM on February 15 [3 favorites]
posted by mephron at 3:12 AM on February 15 [3 favorites]
Mod note: If you look behind door #2, you'll find this post in the Sidebar and Best Of Blog
posted by Brandon Blatcher (staff) at 6:47 AM on February 16 [1 favorite]
posted by Brandon Blatcher (staff) at 6:47 AM on February 16 [1 favorite]
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