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I love reading Gawker. They recently wrote an entire piece on Goatse, and it's a pretty damn long one. An interesting read nonetheless. I guess this isn't "news" but it's an article and I did not know where else to post this. There's no nudity in the article, of course. Though there are links to some in the article.
[QUOTE]Usenet was an early iteration of the massively crowd-sourced web we have today. A free-wheeling cauldron of chatter and shared images, anyone could create a forum dedicated to their interests. And unlike corporate-controlled AOL chatrooms that were at least nominally policed, Usenet was decentralized, built from the ground up to protect free speech. In the early and mid ‘90s, Usenet filled up with all the weirdos, hobbyists, trolls and geeks who had previously congregated online on isolated dial-up message boards, if at all. The natural result of this grand union was an epic flamewar between cat lovers and trolls. Porn, including a disturbing amount of child porn, flooded the site's "alternative" boards. Usenet, in other words, was the perfect primordial soup for Goatse to crawl out of.
It's unclear if Johnson uploaded the fateful Gap.zip file himself. Some sources say Johnson self-posted Gap.zip to the gay porn forums. But one Usenet gay porn fan who recalled spotting Gap.zip back in the day told me in an email, "It is unwise to identify the file as originating from usenet, as though Johnson posted it there himself. A lot of these files 'originated' in emails, ftp servers, etc." Maybe the Gap.zip photos were a special gift for a friend.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Great Moments in Goatse History
• Oprah: In November 2000, the Goatse image was posted in one of Oprah Winfrey's online message boards, and it was shut down soon after.
• New York Yankees: A hacker redirected all of the mail from Yankees.com to Goatse.cx after the Yankees won the World Series in 2000.
• L.A. Times: In June 2005, the Times's special editorial site was taken down after only two days of operation after "explicit images known as Goatse appeared on it."
• New York Times: Tech blogger Anil Dash appeared in a Times article wearing a Goatse-inspired T-shirt.
• London Olympics: b3ta user Sean Stayte successfully supplanted the London 2012 logo with his own Goatse-inspired creation during a BBC News broadcast in June 2007.
• Audi: In April 2011, Audi unintentionally used a Goatse-esque image in an ad campaign.[/QUOTE]
Source for the long article that is definitely worth reading: [url]http://gawker.com/5899787/finding-goatse-the-mystery-man-behind-the-most-disturbing-internet-meme-in-history[/url]
Ew.
Oh damn, fucking nostalgia of those wild days when every hacker out there put it in when messing up some poor website.
Kirk Johnson: The Man, The Legend, The Goatman.
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The hair on the fingers in the OP is shaved...
This man probably has the most famous asshole in the world, there's gotta be a world record for that or something.
[quote]"I got burnt out after doing it for 12 years," he said. "I wake up and I'm eating an omelet while looking at girls shitting in people's mouths and I was like, 'this is not how I want to spend my moring.' I'm done with this shit."[/quote]
true american hero.
Post Icon: Release.
Heheheheheh.
I remember reading an article on some other guy who does the same thing. The weirdest part was that he had a girlfriend.
[quote]"I wake up and I'm eating an omelet while looking at girls shitting in people's mouths and I was like, 'this is not how I want to spend my moring.' I'm done with this shit." [/quote]
I'd imagine it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
As i entered this thread, i smelt bacon.
i find the shaved fingers in the OP more disturbing then Goatse.
Apparently he shoved a volleyball up there, it burst, got infected and he died the next day in hospital
Also I read a supposed interview with him, he isn't gay, he just likes the stimulation
ah scratch that, his imagefap profile says he was online not too long ago
[QUOTE=Heizenberg;35512099]According to the article he considers himself bisexual.[/QUOTE]
just read it :v:
[QUOTE=Charybdis;35512040]Apparently he shoved a volleyball up there, it burst, got infected and he died the next day in hospital
Also I read a supposed interview with him, he isn't gay, he just likes the stimulation[/QUOTE]
According to the article he considers himself bisexual.
Why did I even read that before going to eat.
[quote]Everyone remembers their first Goatse (pronounced Goat-see). I'm not sure the exact circumstances of my first, but I do recall the weightless horror after clicking on the link as a greasy teenager, screwing around online between rounds of the first-person shooter Counter-Strike, that directed me to the now-defunct Goatse shock site: [url]www.Goatse.cx[/url].[/quote]
Yep. Pretty accurate description of me around the time I discovered Goatse as a high school freshman.
First time I saw goatse was on the Strider Mod forums (anyone who remembers that gets an epoint).
Pretty sure it was Counter Strike where I first saw goatse
[QUOTE=furious_d;35512336]Pretty sure it was Counter Strike where I first saw goatse[/QUOTE]
Yup, same here.
The end of the article makes me nostalgic of how internet culture was and how it is now. Gone are the days when people were curious of the internet's underbelly and now it's just the latest memes and rage faces.
[QUOTE=ashxu;35512399]The end of the article makes me nostalgic of how internet culture was and how it is now. Gone are the days when people were curious of the internet's underbelly and now it's just the latest memes and rage faces.[/QUOTE]
Umm, why are you speaking like an old person?
[QUOTE=ashxu;35512399]The end of the article makes me nostalgic of how internet culture was and how it is now. Gone are the days when people were curious of the internet's underbelly and now it's just the latest memes and rage faces.[/QUOTE]
Today people on Facebook, non-nerds, people who barely used computers or played video games back in the day, are looking at memes. The fact that they know the word "meme" is weird enough, since 5 years ago that word was foreign to anyone not "from the internet".
The internet seems too polished and dumbed down so it would appeal to the mass crowd. I can't complain because who doesn't like how everything looks, but I feel that the exclusivity of the depths of the internet has become less "private" or "exclusive" to the people that spent their lives on chat rooms/forums with other nerds across the world.
[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;35512421]Umm, why are you speaking like an old person?[/QUOTE]
haha I don't know. I guess I just miss the past.
[QUOTE=Heizenberg;35512449]Today people on Facebook, non-nerds, people who barely used computers or played video games back in the day, are looking at memes. The fact that they know the word "meme" is weird enough, since 5 years ago that word was foreign to anyone not "from the internet".
The internet seems too polished and dumbed down to appeal to the mass crowd. I can't complain because who doesn't like how everything looks, but I feel that the exclusivity of the depths of the internet has become less "private" or "exclusive" to the people that spent their lives on chat rooms/forums with other nerds across the world.[/QUOTE]
Whaaaaat, no, they're TOTAL gamer gurls. They even have dorky geek glasses, so you know they're geeks, amirite?
Well thank god he didn't become famous by making an ass of himself.
[QUOTE] A giant cow's face with a human mouth greeted visitors to Hick.org, which also hosted the official site of the "Firm Penis Corp."[/QUOTE]
Well isn't that a coincidence?
I remember looking for the goatse guy after a random thought that if he has children they must be dating the most famous man on the Internet. Cool to know.
I remember my first Goatse like it was yesterday. It was probably 2000 or 2001 and I was playing counter-strike on my older cousins computer and there it was, sprayed on the walls of de_dust for all to see.
Memo to self: Never click on a thread with the word "Goatse" in the title; it can bring back old memories best forgotten.
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