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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by personlurking on Monday October 24, 2016 @10:25AM (#12779040)
It comes from a metaphor:

> "Down the rabbit hole", a metaphor for an entry into the unknown, the disorienting or the mentally deranging, from its use in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by cooper12 on Monday October 24, 2016 @01:27PM (#12780867)
Though in modern parlance it seems to me to be used to refer to an endless hole one falls down and never really finds their way out of.
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