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/

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    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.

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    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

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      Every few years I look up if new evidence has been found and/or new suspects show up.

      It’s always entertaining, but I’m guessing Satoshi Sakamoto is as smart as they come and we’ll never know who he/she is.

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      Based on what I’ve read, Len Sassaman seems the most likely candidate, but certainly nothing has been confirmed.

      I quite certain however that douchebag extrordinaire, Craig Wrigh, is NOT Satoshi.

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      No but Barely Sociable on Youtube did a pretty interesting documentary with some of his own theories on it.

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      Some have speculated that Nakamoto is an alias for Adam Beck, or one of the other founders. It is known that nakamoto was living in a European timezone.

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      No, and at this point probably the proper question is who he was. He has been too quiet for too long and too many important topics that could have been resolved immediately had he taken a side, the biggest example for me is the block size debate.

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      I thought that one was solved decades ago;

      The internet is a series of tubes

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        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.

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      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.

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      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.

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      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.

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.