5 Unsolved Mysteries From the Early Days Of the Internet
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2024
- This video takes a deep dive into the peculiar events of the internet back in the 1990s and early 2000s that still haven't been solved today. It also covers topics which originated during this timeframe but did not become subjects of interest until much later.
Video contains:
- Disturbing Content
- Jump Scares
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GOD DAMN IT AAAAA
The good old days, when you could get a username like SlaveMaster and not have to add a bunch of numbers at the end
xXSlave_Master123Xx
@@rianeablaza53 That’s late 2000s Internet, not 90s.
Slavemaster42069.
It would get people even still
*and not be called the Next day by your employers who tells you the comitate for public hygene decided you are a racist and this you are going to lose your job
@@stefanogandino9192 well what other slaves would you be referring to
The earlier Jeff the killer photo is even more terrifying
I dont see how The potato eyes are scary
Only because we are so used to the other one this one just feels kinda off
No but I do say looks like my freind
Oh yes. For sure.
The jeff image has always looked p goofy to me, but GOD THE OG VERSION OF THE IMAGE
I mean once the reveal that the eye’s came from Mr Potato Head was made clear, it was a little less disturbing, but still.
i remember some AOL spokesman called my mom and told her i had the most logged in hours on AOL out of anyone ever back in like 1997
The earliest form of "Go touch some grass" lmao
Sick
legend
@@moonflower6607 lol i was just a teenager with my own phone line in my room and i played ultima online on dial up and left my computer online literally nonstop, i have a nasty habit of never shutting down my computers. i even have an old dell latitude laptop right now thats been powered on for like a year straight probably more, except for a restart here and there when the browser starts lagging
@@Macksbet does it still work?
The Jeff the Killer image possibly being what is essentially a meme edit of a spammer's face is the funniest plot twist I have ever seen
Literally 😭😭 like I hope that is actually true 😭
You cant just show jeff the killer for 10+ seconds on screen, thats sadism
Seriously lmao
true man
I'm gonna have a staring contest with him
Update: I won
@@humanz8681 Jealous right here
i had to come to the comments to not see lol
I'm really curious why hasnt this channel blown up yet...I just started watching and love the videos
It has been blown up before... if you know the history of this channel :)
But yeah, this channel deserves more attention
same
If u didn't notice it's growing very fast
Yeah it's pretty good. Nexpo and Barely Sociable are still the best of the best tho
same
The story of the SlaveMaster actually sent chills down my spine
it didn’t scare me.
maybe because I’ve watched way worse.
I am wondering why this is the first time I am hearing about that. I am 47 years old and got the Internet in my college apartment in 1997 (but I began using it around 1995 at school and stuff even though I didn’t have it in my home yet). I majored in graphic design, so I was very computer savy and was always going online and “surfing” it. I went on to get a job in web design right after I graduated, in ‘99.
This story is supposed to be super well known and went “viral” back then, but I never heard of it? I am wondering if it was more of an AOL online thing - does anyone know? Because I wasn’t an AOL user. I went online in a different way (can’t remember exactly how, but I know it was free with my landline), and I used the Netscape browser as my way to browse the internet.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465probably because the internet was different back then. The viral of back then was just different
I feel like "Publius Enigma" was probably either a short-lived PR campaign or, maybe more likely, a very early ARG that fell through for some reason or another.
The Usenet site being shut down could have put a premature end to an ARG being run primarily through it. Some of the band members may very well have wanted to keep the mystery going by denying involvement. If so, it would be interesting to know where it was going.
It's also *just* possible that this was an actual and extremely tech savvy hacker, or a member of the crew who handled lighting at a particular concert, who wanted to mess with people. Either way, it was pretty obviously not a coincidence.
yeah i was thinking the same, especially since it translates to "public puzzle" which isn't the most cryptic name in hindsight
I doubt some tech savvy hacker would be able to put in "Publius Enigma" into the album cover .
People seemed to think there was some kind of hidden/ buried treasure to be found.
But I think it was Nick Mason who said as well as it being a cryptic promotion by EMI that the prize was or would more than likely be a plot of trees planted to help the environment in the winners name. Not sure if he knew that's what the prize was or it was just him speculating what it might be as that's the kind of thing EMI would do and the band would be happy with. If indeed there actually even was a prize to be found. 🤷♂
Slender man was invented in a Somethingawful thread about photoshopping old pictures to write scary backstories too. Can’t believe how mainstream that got
People would say "you can't photoshop black & white photos" when someone tried to explain it was fake
@@velvetbutterfly Obviously you can Photoshop old pictures. But what makes that argument even more hilarious is the fact that even in the early days of photography photo editing was also a thing.
Photographers would paint shadows on to the negatives to change people's body shape or use double negatives to make ghost images, remove blemishes on people's faces etc.
All in all; photographs have always been faked.
- Timestamps -
00:00 Disclaimer
00:12 Introduction
00:29 SlaveMaster | The First Unsolved Mystery
02:36 Publius Enigma | The Second Unsolved Mystery
05:47 1-800-GOLF-TIP | The Third Unsolved Mystery
08:24 Markovian Parallax Denigrate | The Fourth Unsolved Mystery
10:18 Jeff the Killer | The Fifth Unsolved Mystery
12:47 Outro/Endscreen
Thanks for the time stamps.
Thx. One mystery that has always drawn curiosity is Username 666 on TH-cam. Yes, there was the banned account 666, that I never witnessed, but there was a lesser-known variant called "username666username". The profile was all red, with a blood-like background (this was when TH-cam allowed custom wallpapers), and there was a very creepy, red video on the profile. It was alleged to be gruesome or unsettling, but as a kid, I couldn't bare to watch it. It was likely the same video by nana, but if you use archive, you can still view the profile, but the acc's video is, of course, lost to history.
@@swandive46 I remember seeing that video over 10 years ago and man, it scared me so much back then that I can still remember those scary ass sounds perfectly :')
I thought it sad slavmaster
@@swandive46 art project
Ahh some old nostalgia with these freaky five
Dial up noises are something that makes me fully agree with the disturbing content warning
The things we used to find inside the mouse...
I just subscribed to your channel, I am not disappointed. Everything you put out is quality
same
Me too!
The internet in the 90s was a weird thing. You never quite knew when you were somewhere you didn't belong lol.
I am a male and with the hindsight only gained through adulthood, I see that the craziness took off pretty much from the offset of the beginning of the World Wide Web. Chats were crazy and you could feel the addictive nature of the web right off the cuff. I was about 13 or 14 when we finally got internet in the house. I took right off to the chats. And I dunno what it was about me, but I connected well with women in their 30s and 40s. And they would meet up with me in public places. And you can probably put the rest of the puzzle together after that. But yes, I was in the midst of predators and didn't know it.
I'm so sorry that you were exposed to those predators when you were a child ❤❤
Thats pretty chad ngl
@@pastorofmuppets9346 It's not. He was groomed.
@@pastorofmuppets9346 ...he was 13
@@naolucillerandom5280 and a gigachad! Hitting on some mamas. I mean cmon, 13 year olds want action about as much as teens. And noone got hurt, right? Sounds like a win-win. Ofc it is a dangerous thing to do, still
There's a few reddit threads about the 1 800 golf tip mystery including an actual recording of it
Don't leave us hanging
@@TippleCreations th-cam.com/video/r7miXlC0C_s/w-d-xo.html It's got a lot of effects as the uploader used it for a live recording, but people all agree it's a legit recording, and 1:22 has the cleanest audio.
@@dominicwood8298 ohigetjokes kind of sowed everything together for an accurate depiction of it plus what the “scream” was
1-800-GOLFTIP was a Canadian who intended to establish a tip line for a Canadian golf tournament in the 80s /early 90s..the recording is him reading in a test message..he forgot about the number and thought nothing more of it when the project failed for whatever reason.
@@PrinceFrogFrog haven't listened. I'll assume the scream was a message tone or something similar.
Your channel is criminally underrated considering all the effort you put into your videos
I have heard somewhere that the golf tip was just running a test tape which people from the phone company used to test lines
Dude this channel is top tier. I hope you’ll hit a lot of more subscribers. Please keep doing those Virus videos you are doing recently! Those are incredibly interesting to watch.
I miss that time. I was just a kid and yeah crazies were everywhere but so was passion. So much less data mining, websites for stuff were run by people who loved the stuff, and it felt like everyone was excitedly exploring a new world.
NationSquid, I've been really enjoying your videos recently. Your editing is great, and you have a perfect narrator voice especially for these creepy mystery videos. Keep up the amazing content!
It's a computerized voice, lol. I agree though, good content.
@@pasteleptic Nope! It’s my real voice. :)
@@nationsquid My bad, you have a wonderful talent.
found your channel way back in 2016 thanks to the freaky 5 series and absolutely loved it, so happy to see it again. thank you for your content!
Love to see a veteran fan here!! Thank you so much for your support! There is more content to come! :)
yooo same
The story of the pictures origin is WAAAYYY more interesting than the actual Jeff the killer story
Dude, all of your videos just show how much work you put into them! Keep it up, my guy.
Thank you so much!! I have more content coming your way soon! :)
The "Golf Tip" billboard with the Microsoft Word Word Art got me good. 😂
Markov Chain sounds scary until you learn that is just the most basic type or random processes in probability theory
Internet in the 90's were wild. On the one hand you could be feeding your NeoPets or exchanging fake money on Habbo Hotel, on the other you could be watching someone get beheaded with a Stanley knife.
The Markovian Parallax Denigrade was just spam sent to EXPLICITLY christian usenet groups. It was solved YEARS ago, aside from who was actually responsible. It wasn't a numbers station or anything like that.
Barely Sociable did a video on this forever ago.
Orange 555 six why is the siz @ siz where is Orange 555 Green Tasty Orange Tasty
The content was the leaked scripts for the gibberish sketches in the unmade 3rd series of Rutland Weekend Television. As you can imagine.
So glad someone commented on this.
Oooooooh A new Freaky Fives video from the NatiionSquid! Now that's what I call a Halloween Treat!! :D
I seriously love your narration! Honestly the whole vid is so well put together!
The 4th mystery seemed like something you’d text as a joke if you kept clicking on the suggested words on your iPhone and seeing what they come up with… maybe something like that was coded and repeated with bots by someone
the feelings of nostalgia from those AIM sound effects are just chilling...
You mean AOL?
@@nintendofanatic2837 AIM was AOL's messenger.
I still miss MSN, it popped up a notification of new emails. They "took over" Skype, but ported over basically none of MSN's features, except for the fact you could chat on it. Both MSN and AIM let you do fun stuff like add custom smilies, made up of any suitably-sized image, change your font, colour and size on the fly, to say, send one giant message in a creepy font, and save sessions as easily-portable .html. What have we got today? Line is shit next to that, such a walled garden.
@@worldcomicsreview354 may i ask what was it like to online during those times?
Playing some Emily is away? 😂
Publius Enigma. That's a name I've not heard in a long time.
Btw, if you have a copy of the PULSE DVD, look at the screen during Brick part 2. You'll see that there's something... odd about the pen writing E = MC². That's because the video originally said Enigma at the live show
Damn, I wish that song would just go away. Is there some retirement home we can send songs that have been overplayed? Brick part 2 could sit around and swap stories with Sweet Home Alabama and every Eagles song.
@@icenine09 sweet home alabama would have been good if it didnt get memed to death.
You have to make more of these. Being someone who was there in the earliest days of the Internet, I don't think I went down the rabbit hole to see how far it went. 90's-00's Internet really was the wild, wild West. If you had the curiosity and the cast-iron stomach you can find pretty much anything.
The Publius Enigma is a piece of cake. The hidden message is "I buried Roger."
The Walrus was Syd Barrett the whole time!
Pink Floyd
@@thechurchoftoddhoward6820 Pink Floyd
Not sure why you're in my recommended but I see your recent content about the internet has a lot of potential, you've earned my sub sir
Just found your channel, can’t wait to see how big your channel grows, subbed 🤙
These videos deserve so many more views, they're really interesting :)
Publius Enigma must just an interesting marketing ploy. It's the simplest, most logical explanation. It's more interesting as an early form of internet marketing than it is as an actual mystery to be solved.
An early ARG? I know there's been other ARG's tied to big public events. One of them released balloons or did sky writing with a radio frequency, then broadcast a clue on that, or something. I think it was at an E3 or a con like that.
the editing in this video is crazy good, man
Holy crap, the jeff the killer pic still gives me chills even though i grew up a lot
Fr it always scares me its like momo lol
been watching all ur videos all day and id love to see more of this scary theme!! all your videos that have a scarier undertone are my personal favorites
I cant remember who but someone solved the golf tip line.
It was an actual golf tip line but only for a very short time after that without double checking i think it was a test line.
Great work, this channel is a new fave of mine!
"You're writing a chain letter that is about to cause a ton of harm, would you like me to to help you out?"
No gracias
so glad i found this channel, its very interesting
Omg stop! Those IM sounds trigger so much nostalgia! Your channel is awesome. Love this old early internet stuff.
What was your AIM screen name
@@billblaski9523 moooonfairy69 or mooonchild69 something like that. The 69 representative of the cancerian zodiac ♋️ not the sexual position.
This is one of the most under appreciated channels like this deserves to have a couple million subs
I wish you 100K subs soon, this is some amazing content. Keep it up!
Thank you so much for your support!! Looks like I might get there soon!! Hoping for the very best! :)
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The Division Bell's cover art was taken near where I grew up. For years I thought those faces were still there. It was only when I planned to drive out there and film them for TH-cam that I found they weren't!
I just found your channel today. Fantastic content. I wish you much success.
Thank you so much for your support!! More content to come! :)
I'm addicted to your channel. Quality content. 💯👌🏻
Your channel is insanely underrated, you deserve millions of subscribers
Just subbed! I think I will binge your content :) Good job!
Thank you so much for your support! More content to come! :)
Oh he's just counting my shots for hole 1. Very accurate.
This was great. Totally my taste in videos. Would love a sequel or similar topic
The 1-800-GOLFTIP one was technically already debunked. It was originally owned by a TV station that did originally gave out golf tips, but due to the low caller rate, it was also shut down, and was discontinued two months later. The man had an Indian accent, and took a breath at around the number 7, and the countdown was just stock audio placed there as a test, and the "scream" was a tone created by AT&T Bell that signified that the number was not in service.
I wonder if anyone out there remembers calling it back when it actually gave out golf tips. Somebody must.
@@Adrastia also, fun fact: the tone was recorded and sung by an actual female singer. Which could explain why many found it unnerving. Although, there is a newer variation of it that was used in the late 80s and 90s that was artificially created using synth.
this is such a great video. definitely subscribing
I think you should do a documentary on the old BBS/webforum Temple of the Screaming Electron/TOTSE/&T which ran for 20 years straight and was basically the grandfather to 4chan. It just really encapsulates what this time of the "wild west" internet was about given how it was a source for things like improvised explosive guides, drug manufacturing processes, etc,. Love your videos, keep it up man!
I was waiting for the Markovian Parallax Denigrate in this vid and you did not disappoint.
markovian parallax denigrate was just a spam attack on christian usenet groups.
happy halloween! awesome video, just subscribed :D
Perfect timing Squid!!!!! Happy Halloween 🎃🎃🎃!!!
Another fantastic video!
subscribed, this is such a cool video :)) also thought i heard a snippet of Revolution 9 in the intro😳👀
Love ur vids!
Today I found this amazing channel. keep it up
Great video! Also, the golf tip section had a screenshot in it that contained the user ‘qwantz’ in it, who happens to be the creator of Dinosaur Comics Ryan North. Just thought that was an interesting tidbit.
Very much appreciate the use of See Emily Play for the floyd section, you clearly know their best work
totally fav new channel!
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Thank you so much for your support! :)
I was not expecting these types of videos again
good content bro keep up the good work
Nice! I love this series
I love videos like these man
I actually heard of the last one from the channel GooseBoose, he actually has an unedited image of what seems like the girl in the photo
Epic vid dude !
😀
Great episode to watch in the dark and alone. Woot woot
your videos are excellent! glad i finally came across your channel! been burning through your content very fast
one tiny thing though-“coincide” is pronounced co-in-side, not coin-side :P i wouldnt have said anything but ive heard you pronounce it that way in other vids too.
this is the type of content you need to watch
yoooo loved the use of revolution 9 at the beginning
Is that a sample of Revolution 9 by the Beatles at the beginning 😅. Love the stuff man, definitely subscribing!
Thank you for making a video like your old horror videos.
Original content. Great job.!
6:06
I was waiting for this one.
I knew it’d happen.
Well the phone number is now a phone sex line... the more you know I guess
Golf tips?
The Publius thing at some point likely got conflated with an old arcade story from the 1980's and evolved into the Polybius story.
As I'm sure you know, chain letters were a thing long before the internet. We got a few that said you'd get rich if you passed on the message.
We didn't.
There used to be ones that told you to send $1 to the following addresses, then add your own and pass it on, as if people would follow the instructions without reading to the end first. Still, it did cause morons to dox themselves.
@@worldcomicsreview354 Yeah we got those ones too which are more relatable in today's context. But there the other types where no money was requested but the letter said to send 10 more and you'd receive good fortune or whatever. It was kind of strange when you got one, they sometimes said weird stuff and it was a little creepy but an interesting phenomenon.
Great video
I'm proud that i recognized the face at 0:19. Is that revolution 9 playing in the background btw? I love the pink floyd footage in the video, too.
i zipped through omegle text chats once and ive acquired some bots (?) who have spurted out such random words on there a few times. they immediately just sent a block of random absolutely nonsense words, not answering my texts, just always the same. i was very confused and now i'm even more confused.
hey, you can do a nostalgic vids about browsers? internet explorer 5.0 , 6.0 and old firefox is always on my heart.
Subd! Great content 👍👍
Markovian Parallax Denigrate was actually a trolling campaign against a bunch of Christian usenet groups. Barely Sociable here on TH-cam made a video on the issue.
This may sound like I’m joking, but I remember seeing the original photo of Jeff The Killer back when I was around 6-8 years old. I don’t remember the photo since it happened so long ago, but I remember seeing it, and it was from a girl who used to be bullied in the internet. After the pic was edited into the Jeff the Killer one she killed herself.
Dude I swear the chat rooms are so nostalgic I remember my dad used to let me type in that thing I don't really remember all of that but it was all so fun
I'm not 100% sure but I thought 1-800-GOLF-TIP was an Ottawa thing, not Toronto? Even the screen cap at 8:11 says something along those lines.
It's been a long suspected theory that it was a form of number station, and Ottawa being the seat of government and embassies in Canada, that made a lot of sense...
1-800-GOLFTIP was a Canadian who intended to establish a tip line for a Canadian golf tournament in the 80s/90s..the recording is him reading in a test message..he forgot about the number and thought nothing more of it when the project failed for whatever reason.
8:10 cameo appearance by Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics. So cool!
I am little amused at the idea of the Golf Tip line having someone reading out a countdown up to ten, everytime someone calls up, as this video suggests. On a more constructive note, there have been some interesting new developments on this one, including an explanation for the screaming tone and a recently unearthed recording of the counting audio.
what are the new developments???
That picture at the end is nightmare fuel.
Maybe if you aren't an internet veteran. It's really nothing anymore to most.
Ah, trusty old memories. I always associated that bloop noise with ICQ, but I know AOL Chat when I see it.