Hey everyone!<p>I'm curious about what interesting or important content have you searched on the internet for but just can't seem to find anymore? This could be an old video, a long-lost website, or even a piece of vital information that's disappeared. I'm eager to hear about the digital treasures you and we've lost! (can be a video, a website, a resources, or some important information).<p>Thank you for your time.
Prob 20-25y ago I read a short “book” online, looked for it multiple times throughout the years but could never find it again.<p>It was a story of Superman and a villain where the roles were inverted, Superman was the bad guy. It was alternating one chapter with a fiction story and a chapter as technical manual about various hacking topic like basic cryptography, steganography, etc.<p>The protagonist was using various techniques to escape from Superman and the technical chapters were like tutorials.<p>I can’t say that it was the beginning of my interest in security, but it was certainly a great inspiration. I also sort of started writing a book around the same idea of alternating fiction and technical chapters, will see if I ever finish it :)
I've searched high and low for someone who may have archived an interview with @todayisnew (the ethical hacker) to commemorate him reaching a milestone on the HackerOne platform.<p>It was streamed on Twitch via the official HackerOne channel and I kick myself for not realizing it would be autodeleted after a few days.<p>In it he talks about his methodology and it has one of my favorite clips from these types of interviews where (paraphrasing) he is asked what he is doing during a general, hypothetical bug discovery. He goes on to explain that he has automated the entire process such that he finds bugs in his sleep and it still excites me to think about.
I have a lot of <a href="http://gbppr.trighost.org" rel="nofollow">http://gbppr.trighost.org</a> if someone is interested I'll zip it up and upload it somewhere (3.64gb extracted)<p>It has info about drugs (250mb of PDFs about Ketamine alone), bomb manufacturing, electronics, e-mags, etc... for educational purposes of course.<p>It's probably a mirror from about 2006 (of at least part of the site)
There was a Flash video done in the early days of Flash that I would love to find again. I don’t remember the full video but it was done in an Anime style and ended with a girl standing on a cliff with flower petals blowing around her. It was a particularly beautifully done video that I would love to watch again.<p>If I recall, it was either a demo or the introduction to the authors website.
A paper on the Microsoft Research site, with a technique for implementing high-definition TV, now obsolete with the adoption of ATSC. It had a discussion of how sampling works, that I thought was interesting.
An article describing how to throw "plausible" dices for software RPGs, where "plausible" doesn't mean truly random, but what the human mind thinks "random" is.
Videos from past Microsoft TechEd conferences, and the 2nd annual SharePoint conference. I had two presentations that did NUMBERS back then, but I should've archived the videos.
There's a Flash Website called Peony Games. It's in French (I don't speak) I used to play several games there and can't even figure out how to start looking
I saw a CSS processor/renderer posted to HN once that looked really awesome. I don’t remember what it was named and have not been able to find it.
I lost the first website I ever built. It was a very thorough "fanboy" site for Goldeneye 007 on Nintendo 64. It was hosted on Angelfire, and I misspelled "license" as part of my URL (accidentally). I don't remember my "region" like /mi4/.<p>It had a frame-based layout and the cool 90s animated gifs.<p>I think it's totally lost, even though a lot of those pages got archived. I have copies of pretty much everything else I ever built.