Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

27 points by lignux 5 years ago | 10 comments

It looks like it has been 4 years* since we had this thread

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12778836

Avalaxy 5 years ago |

Google maps: I love checking out random places in the world. I then inevitably end up in the Wikipedia rabbit hole to research all sorts of details and history about those places.

Sodaware 5 years ago |

The experience reports on erowid.org make for some interesting reading.

[0] https://erowid.org/experiences/

the_only_law 5 years ago | |

The most fascinating to me have always been the stories of various inhalants. Random gasses, chemicals, etc. Sometimes I just end thinking “why the hell did you think that was a good idea”.

softwaredoug 5 years ago |

Stackexchange hot questions https://stackexchange.com/

brianjunyinchan 5 years ago |

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_inventions

westcort 5 years ago |

https://www.locserendipity.com

Randomize your exposure to information on the internet and widen your perspective!

joshxyz 5 years ago |

https://pointerpointer.com/

cpach 5 years ago |

Wikipedia; Folklore.org