The Backrooms of the Internet Archive

Re:The Backrooms of the Internet Archive by firecall on Sunday June 09, 2024 @01:25AM (#40622240)

There is a subreddit for Open Directories!

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Re:The Backrooms of the Internet Archive by mikae1 on Sunday June 09, 2024 @02:06AM (#40622388)

There's an even more fitting (inactive) subreddit for filename searches here: https://old.reddit.com/r/IMGXXXX/

Here's a list of prefixes to search for:

    IMG XXXX
    MVI XXXX
    MOV XXXX
    100 XXXX
    DSC XXXX
    SAM XXXX
    HDV XXXX
    102APPLE 
    IMG XXXX
    FILEXXXX
    GOPRXXXX

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Re:The Backrooms of the Internet Archive by Nition on Sunday June 09, 2024 @04:15AM (#40622824)

There's also the excellent http://astronaut.io, which I found via Hacker News. It automatically plays short segments from YouTube videos with those default filenames, inevitably surfacing a kind of gallery of the mundane: The unproduced, untargeted, mostly unwatched, everyday moments of real life.

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Re:The Backrooms of the Internet Archive by elaus on Sunday June 09, 2024 @12:03PM (#40625366)

The amount of (AI generated?) crypto spam is mind boggling. Most of the other videos seem to be amateur sport events, but the rest contains a few gems of random stranger's life :)

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Re:The Backrooms of the Internet Archive by deaddodo on Sunday June 09, 2024 @02:40PM (#40626525)

I let it scroll through about 30 and didn't see either of these. I saw a couple small church services, some random snippets of people walking throughout various areas, what seemed to be an interview for someone's school project and some videos of pets.

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