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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.

I found one of them thanks to this post reminding me to check to make sure I have the right name, but now I need English subtitles for it.

葫芦兄弟2葫芦小金刚 ( Deeply: Hulu Brothers 2 The Golden Gourd )

I don't remember how, but I stumbled upon the original Calabash Brothers online with ENG sub and really liked how crazy it felt, in a good way. Found part of the first episode of this sequel and I knew I needed to see the whole thing with ENG subs. Didn't know it was 6 episodes, but now I do.

I also hope to some day find the early( ? ) 2010s Calabash Brothers with ENG subs as well because I'm invested in the series, the cartoon/donghua anyways.

Waaaay back in the day, before YouTube and all that, we shared small videos.

There was one animated stop frame short film, where ken and barbie were having bdsm styled sex.

Barbie keeps asking Ken to hit her. Harder. Harder!

Eventually he really does, and it ends in a bad way for barbie.

Early 20s me thought it was hilarious.

Have never found it on the modern internet.

The other is the early work of the south Park creators. About a dog. I believe it was called Princess?

There's a very horrid sex seen where a wife begrudgingly masturbates her husband as the dog watches. Total marriage boredom. Getting the job done just to get it done. Horrid, and beautifully articulated through the animated format.

Again, have never been able to find it.

At this point, with all the lost media focused youtube channels, everything that I once saw that would be perfect to add to this list has actually already been found. It's actually kind of... lame. Because now there is less mystery and whimsy in my life. 😞

There's a a conspiracy theory involving a relatively popular celebrity from the early 2000s and some guy in Brazil takes full credit for the entire conspiracy theory and says he made it up just to prove how easy it would be to do. He's even credited in the wikipedia article for it.

I've seen proof that he's wrong, I've had bookmarks that would show he wasn't the originator of the theory, but all the forums and sources that would be able to prove him wrong are defunct and offline. The timeline doesn't even make sense for it to have originated when he said he came up with it, but I can't prove it. He was like 6 years late. Every once in awhile, I still go searching to see if I can find something old enough to prove it.

2 psa's that ran on cable on the early 90's.

Both had some dumb tag ling like "would you risk your life to save them?" Dramatic music and snap cuts.

One had a little girl in a petal car on a road with an oncomming semi truck.

The second was a toddler walking away from it's mother into a busy city street with oncomming traffic, and the mother (who was trying to unlock her car) freaking out once she noticed the kid was missing.

These have to exist somewhere.

Okay so mine is so old i can't really put a finger on where i got it from..It's a piece of electronic music with a music video that included an Inuit fishing. It must have been from around '97 but could be anywhere in the nineties. In my recollection it was a single on cdrom from The Chemical Brothers. That never yielded any results for me. The second recollection was that it came from a cdrom that accompanied an exhibition on electronic art. Also never yielded any results for me. So, somewhere in my recollection is a couple of electronic notes and an Inuit in the music video. Ive given up searching for it, even though i tried many many times over the years.

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.

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 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.

For a number of years, it was Blood on your Hands by Killing Joke. Or, as I had known it back then, "Track 04", which was the wrong number of the track, no less. Took me some 7 years between losing "Track 04", remembering it existed and knowing it was by Killing Joke to take the plunge and 🏴‍☠️ their discography.

(For some reason, I have trouble figuring out what is being sung in several songs unless I read the lyrics together, even to this day. Once I've done that a couple of times, I can "hear" the words properly. So, I never had a good idea of what the song "talked about")

For whatever reason, I downloaded everything except the Killing Joke 2003 album. Around a month later, I decided to check those songs out, put them all on a playlist and left it playing. When "Blood on your Hands" started playing, the unmistakable starting guitar riff, oh my fucking god, I felt like I had unearthed a real fucking treasure!

What is the show?

A goth artist guy named Marcel. I had a tiny photo of him. I’ve never found him again.

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

This one porn where there was like three girls sitting next to each other with their legs spread over each other.

Think I saw it when I was like 14-16. I'm pretty sure it was little caprice too but honestly idk

There are several online tools that will try to name tracks based on sample audio.

Scottish comedian, TV/internet personality Limmy used to have a lot of Flash stuff on his website. I had it all saved but, for whatever reason, it went missing years ago. His website has been gone for a long time. Internet Archive has some of them but not a bunch of them. So much Flash stuff has been archived to no end but this stuff is just forgotten to the world.

Like others, I actually managed to find it thanks to this thread by double-checking before posting.

It's a sketch/short film(?) called A Reasonable Request. It will stick with you, if you watch it, I promise.

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.

A YouTube mixtape found after searching “Madagascar Music” that had a smattering of wonderful folk music from, ostensibly, Madagascar. It must’ve been dmca’d years ago or something ‘cause I’ve not been able to find it since c. 2013.

i forgot what it was, and now i dont even know what to search for but i knew i wanted to find a very specific thing online which i couldn't, oh well.