Recently I managed to stumble onto a really old, pristine and untouched fan forum for a band called 'Ozma'. I know nothing about what or who this band may have been, but there are posts spanning from 2006 to early 2022, where unfortunately, the owner of the forum caved in and locked the forum and told everyone to migrate over to the privacy violating Discord service.

I have absolutely no idea if and when this forum will shut down. I'd try to archive everything about it (Maybe more educated individuals can take a crack at it. https://www.ozmafans.com), since I'm really into psychoanalyzing the typing styles and the ways the netizens of old communicated back then, but I simply know nothing of local archival on a scale like this.

I plan to write an article discussing the way communication on the internet has dramatically changed the more individuals who grew up with the net became the majority, compared to when it mostly consisted of individuals who lived the majority of their lives without the internet. It'll be great, and tackles a big problem I've noticed for a long time but simply could not tackle. We all suffer from it, and I will address and shine a light on it very soon.

I got very off topic, here. Have you experienced or discovered any abandoned, strange, or otherwise unusual things on the Internet before? What was it like?

honestly i dont remember the website but it had something related to porn in the address. it wasnt actually porn i dont think cus it was an image of an oven on fire and there was creepy old music playing in the background. i looked it up on youtube and i think it was an arg but a pretty undiscovered one.

Are you thinking of NotPron? https://notpron.com/notpron/levelone.htm

^ Forgot to elaborate, but it's definitely not undiscovered (unless you discovered it pretty early on). It's an online puzzle/riddle game known for being extremely difficult and complex, with only a tiny fraction of people (something like 100 people out of 20 million visitors) having ever beaten it.

i found the website while just being bored and searching up random words/phrases with ".com" at the end and honestly notpron.com seems like something id have searched up however i distinctly remember being brought to a page with a degraded oven in what looked to be a dryish field or something

This is a silly website, exitmundi.nl.

No longer exists, but I loved reading it from time to time. A collection of end of the world scenarios presented with good humor.

https://archive.ph/xNMKv

Ah wait, exitmundi.nl's Mundus Exitus, not that I've forgotten, but it was something like “the world ends in a week, so here's the official website” style. NotPron isn't even close to that awkwardly dry. Like... didn't anyone ever think of 10/24? The site was still up for years and people were actually signing up. I'm not sure what happened with it but now we just have this random one-word joke from the early-mid 90s.

I don't think NotPron is quite it either,

nah, sounds like those other ones I'd need a reference for, if i ever see this website again. exitmundi.nl felt like it was from an actual book or magazine that ran the same content periodically though, and not some one-off thing.

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You're probably thinking Normalpornfornormalpeople which had a creepypasta written about it