I remember my brother showing me the Heavens Gate website in the early 2000's when i was a kid. He kept telling me they were gonna come kidnap me and i had nightmares for weeks lmao.

@Asnt2381

6 ай бұрын

Truly a sibling experience

@jong.7944

6 ай бұрын

God, every time some TV show or KZread video shows that creepy bald dude is triggering…

@5Mayday5

6 ай бұрын

LMFAO THATS TERRIBLE 💀

@mistermisfortune13

6 ай бұрын

Judging by how insane Marshall Applewhite looks, that wouldn't surprise me. His unhinged smile is the most unsettling thing to me for a while and made it hard for me to sleep, and I was already an adult at the time.

@5Mayday5

6 ай бұрын

@@mistermisfortune13 yeah I had to look away for a second because of how his eyes were peeled open at the camera. I feel bad though because if he had gotten psychological evaluation, things might have turned out differently. (Completely speculation though)

The fact there are some people dedicated to internet archaeology shows how insanely vast and incomprehensible the web is. We invented it, yet we ourselves don't all know every single dark corner that exists

@fluffthesergal7640

6 ай бұрын

Imagine hundreds or thousands of years from now... Wowzy.

@mike04574

6 ай бұрын

Just like tv and movies

@MajimaEnterprises

6 ай бұрын

Shows how much has been buried. The internet was so much more interesting in the 2000's.

@AngerMaker413

6 ай бұрын

@@MajimaEnterprisesyeah you’re exactly right. That’s because censorship and monetization was practically non existent prior to the 2010s Now the internet is about 80% advertising and censoring. I’m not totally opposed to the censorship of more graphic contents though because the internet is easier than ever for children to access due to parents giving their 5 year olds iPhones now

@nekokonata

6 ай бұрын

It's kind of sad to think about how centralized it has become though.

My favorite thing about the time cube guy is that he challenged people to disprove his theory so a bunch of MIT students invited him to their school. They literally disproved his theory to his face. Dude got ripped to shreds & then went on to still argue his theory was correct until he died. Dedication.

@tilliesinabottle

5 ай бұрын

Damn! I love it when that happens. Too bad the guy who made the video didn't know that.

@natalyawoop4263

5 ай бұрын

If you're gonna be dumb, you've got to be tough

@catscanhavelittleasalami

5 ай бұрын

Hilarious but far from surprising. The "prove me wrong" crowd can never be proven wrong not because they're right, but because they're stupidly stubborn.

@Boglim

4 ай бұрын

You can’t fix stupid

@maddyberkley1836

4 ай бұрын

'dedication' 💀 he had severe untreated mental illness you vapid ghoul

“I can’t wait to ascend with my fellow Heaven’s Gates members” “sorry you have to stay behind and update the website”

@Nintendoes2

3 ай бұрын

some bull shit. lol

@deenrqqwe6794

3 ай бұрын

Maybe it was punishment, a blessing in disguise

@widdlepocketmarcy

3 ай бұрын

"Finally, jesus has returned, we shall ascend!" jesus: oh my bad you gotta write the bible 2

@user-fd1lz2vc4s

2 ай бұрын

Yeah I would be bravely spreading the world instead of taking a trip on the back of a comet 😅.

ActiveWorlds 3D member here (since 1999). Thanks for covering our virtual worlds of times past. I've built many worlds within the ActiveWorlds (AW) environment and also worked for AW for a while. There were a lot of offshoot 3D world clients using the AW engine and infrastructure that I was involved in (mainly OuterWorlds 3D [OW]). I remember when it was a bustling hive of chatters, builders, gamers, fetishers and much more. Was quite saddening to slowly watch it die off to where only a few die-hards still come in, lol. I go between Second-Life and AW now, though I'm dying to try VR-Chat (waited many many years for a good VR chat environment like this) but my computer is old and not able to handle running the VR-Chat client. I can't really afford a high end gaming PC on caregiver pay, I wish I could though.

@user-qc6gi6pl8e

3 ай бұрын

That would seems interesting to say the least it looks great and you should be proud of the work.

@iMac9991

2 ай бұрын

It's so cool to see there's people still dedicated to that game. Quite charming, really.

@Little_Lepus

2 ай бұрын

Reminds me of the world KinitoPET builds for you

@fishseas

19 күн бұрын

If you are able get a capable computer, I recommend trying Resonite. It's seems similar to what I understand ActiveWorlds to be, you can build anything you want and post the world for people to join. You can really make whatever you want as long as you understand the coding/creation system the game uses. There's lots of builders and coders around who are happy to talk about their projects and help. Its all free to play as well. I quit VR-Chat to play Resonite, and I'll never go back. I hope more people are able to play it.

Seeing the 9/11 Memorial on Activeworlds was surreal for me... I was actually on Activeworlds on that day, and I remember people talking about what had happened, and the general confusion and anger and sadness. I was a kid and didn't really get the full meaning of what was going on, but I think for a lot of people, having a community and people to be around and mourn together with was really comforting against the horror and probably really helpful for some. Seeing the empty memorial was... kinda like the vessel of that comfort and community had been tipped over and spilled with nobody left to clean it up.

@matheusrocha8345

5 ай бұрын

Were you active on Activewords at the time? Was it ever pipular? I keep wondering if this was ever a place full of people, or if these worlds were just born "abandoned" (clearly not abandoned by their creatord, but I meant without visitors).

@The_Dude_Rugs

5 ай бұрын

“Bro where were you on 9/11?” “Activeworlds”

@smarmar400

5 ай бұрын

@@The_Dude_Rugs Right??

@project_Akira

Ай бұрын

What a pathetic take guy 🙄😒

@Quryam

Ай бұрын

​@@project_AkiraHow's that pathetic

Personal websites gave the pre social media internet character and a soul. It was always fun to go down a rabbit hole and stumble on sites like the Cubed Time theory.

@christopher9727

6 ай бұрын

Only Jesus Christ blood can cleanse us of are sins come to Jesus Christ today Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Come to Jesus Christ today Jesus Christ is only way to heaven Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void. The Holy Spirit can lead you guide and confort you through it all Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. Mark 1.15 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Hebrews 11:6 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Jesus

@whitetrashd8225

6 ай бұрын

Geocities and Angelfire FTW

@ArtOwl

6 ай бұрын

@@whitetrashd8225Don’t forget about Freewebs/Webs

@turnkeydirect

6 ай бұрын

Yeah but people were totally racists and homophobes…good thing big tech is here to vet and censor all our opinions now.

@auntieheksold-timemedicine3045

6 ай бұрын

TIME CUBE!!! Man, that was a wonderful memory, falling down that rabbit hole. I miss the internet pre-social medial. Social media made it so boring and awful.

it's cool that you explored the 90s Internet... People really cant understand how it was back when the Internet was a new frontier. We really didn't know at the time how lucky we were to experience those moments.

@christopher9727

6 ай бұрын

Jesus Christ is the only hope in this world no other gods will lead you to heaven There is no security or hope with out Jesus Christ in this world come and repent of all sins today Today is the day of salvation come to the loving savior Today repent and do not go to hell Come to Jesus Christ today Jesus Christ is only way to heaven Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today Holy Spirit Can give you peace guidance and purpose and the Lord will John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. Mark 1.15 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Hebrews 11:6 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Jesus

@anonmouse15

6 ай бұрын

I remember my brother showing me a print off of a Goosebumps fan site from Geocities in 1997.

@l0lan00b3

6 ай бұрын

Yep theyve monitized the shit out of everything, adds are now everywhere and not just on the top/side, and the "dark" web vendors are all fbi/cia operations lol oh yeah and forums were waaay more active giving you a sense of being part of a community for any given thing.

@sprolyborn2554

6 ай бұрын

the internet pre-commercialization was truly a treasure. there are people alive now that cant even conceptualize what that was like.

@annie_xo

5 ай бұрын

@@sprolyborn2554I miss it so much. It used to be so much fun

The digital memorials are actually kind of touching, in a somber sort of way. People cared more for their community back then, I suppose.

@Based_Gigachad_001

6 ай бұрын

People still had empathy back then.

@GrannyBender

6 ай бұрын

@@Based_Gigachad_001 What do you mean? I've seen kids building memorials in minecraft, friends mourning together on Runescape, or plenty of other games; there are countless memorial pages on facebook where family and kids get to say goodbye together. Empathy and online mourning never magically went away or disappeared.

@scottritomanaksimonscott6213

6 ай бұрын

​@@Based_Gigachad_001My guy, they made flash games depicting bombing turbaned men and women wearing burqas just a day after 9/11...

@natas12rm

6 ай бұрын

@@GrannyBenderI think he means it was more about building a community than making a dollar

@Tomas-gw6rd

6 ай бұрын

Irony has always been there online to protect people, just like real life, because sincerity is vulnerability. It's worse online because it's so easy to access people's thoughts, feelings, and interests. But at the same time, the demographics using these things in the late 90s included a lot of boomers (literal baby boomers, not just people over 25), who I find are the most sincere users on a given platform. There were a lot of ironic Gen Xers and young millennials online then, too, and I think that's where most of the shenanigans online come from. I think it's partly a generational shift, where Gen X saw the sincerity of the flower power turned Reaganite Boomer generation as something ridiculous, and partly growing up online like millennials did, where again anything that was stated sincerely was instantly ridiculed by anon trolls. I think zoomers have it the worst, where they are sincerely shallow and don't understand why the irony of Gen X was used to blow open the shift in social justice counter culture to self serving neo liberalism. They sincerely embrace cynical influencers on the basis of shallow aesthetic appeals to social justice as a way to gain clout that can be used to "monetize content" I wonder if generation alpha will be a new Gen X in this respect

These old ActiveWorlds servers remind me of old Minecraft server communities actually. There is a german Minecraft server that was started in 2011 and that I first joined in 2013, and that I still sometimes occasionally play on, the server has kept an active community to this day, with some people from back then still being active. This server also still has the same original map from 2011 which means there are buildings on this map that are up to 12 years old. Many people have left memories on this server over the course of the years. And a very tragic thing, there have actually been two players from this server that passed away, with their buildings being kept and protected on the server as a memorial. Visiting these buildings on the server of players that have passed away feels very haunting.

@user-zg8px7ye1g

4 ай бұрын

Very interesting and sad at the same time. I would like to know which is the server name? And how did they realize two peoplehave died?

@salam-peace5519

4 ай бұрын

@@user-zg8px7ye1g The server is called Minecraft-Spieplatz, it is only in German, if you google it you find the website with a livemap and server address. Some players on the server have been friends outside of the server for years, and they gave message to the server community when two players passed away (the first in 2012, the second in 2017).

They did a documentary on the two surviving Heavens Gate members that are alive and maintain the web site. They still believe that nonsense and see it as their sacred duty to maintain it.

@JeffMcDuffie72MeridianGate

6 ай бұрын

I'm a active member of heaven's gate and will require you to shut it.

@TheDukeofDeath666

6 ай бұрын

as an ascended member of heaven's gate the only non sense here is your lack of bitches

@cuginkcain5430

6 ай бұрын

As an active member, I require it to stay up...but only on tuesdays.

@jasonwilcox6890

6 ай бұрын

Oh, they didn't get the memo.

@saintmalaclypse3217

6 ай бұрын

The "nonsense" they believed was essentially "when you die, you go to heaven". Sadly, that "nonsense" has infested most of the globe. The Heaven's Gate clan just expedited their goals and didn't burden the rest of us with it or infect our governments, unlike the mainstream cults of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

When I saw and heard the explanation of Active Worlds I was just thinking "Active Worlds walked so VRChat could run."

@arbitrary2868

6 ай бұрын

Correction: Active Worlds, Second Life and Playstation HOME walked so VRChat could run.

@TehUltimateSnake

6 ай бұрын

@@arbitrary2868I miss Playstation Home 🥺

@Based_Gigachad_001

6 ай бұрын

​@@arbitrary2868 What's PlayStation home?

@Sanguivore

6 ай бұрын

@@arbitrary2868Happy to see Second Life get some recognition. Second Life was *the* Internet for me in my childhood and early teen years. It’s a shame is such a ghosttown now.

@CassyBurritoBean

6 ай бұрын

@@arbitrary2868although arguably VRC is slowly slipping into what happened to Those that have came before…

God, I miss the old internet when it was just us computer nerds. It really was the Wild West.

Years back, when google was still search oriented instead the ad friendly wasteland it is today, you could still come across very old Blogger sites with some of the most obscure and unhinged stuff you could ever see and read. From folks rambling about the MK Ultra to some posting about pieces of literature/comics/videos and such now lost to time.

this older guy in highschool (1999-2003) had a hobby of wandering into the library during spare, logging into a pc as a guest, going to the timecube website then setting the computer to read it out loud before locking the pc and walking away

@ricochetpig

5 ай бұрын

🤣

@JohnGardnerAlhadis

5 ай бұрын

Absolute chad.

I think you were confusing Halley Comet and Hale-Bopp Comet during the Heaven’s Gate section. They are two separate comets. Hale-Bopp is the one connected to Heaven’s Gate. Halley comes by (relatively, for a comet) frequently, every 75-80 years, while Hale-Bopp’s orbit brings it by only every 2500 years.

@bertramusb8162

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! This (while very understandable) was killing me!

@GizliBiraz

3 ай бұрын

The one Heaven's Gate followed was Hale-Bopp (pronounced almost like Hell, one syllable). Halley's comet is different... and is pronounced almost like HOWEL-ees or Halle Berry's first name instead of like the common girl's name, Hailey).

@Nintendoes2

3 ай бұрын

Think we just found one of the two surviving members.

@literallyunderrated

2 ай бұрын

@@Nintendoes2Nah, just one of the rare educated people who know the difference between Halleys Comet and the Hale Bopp Comet

@MrWolfSnack

2 ай бұрын

They also officially denied that any comet would have any influence on their purpose and duty, as they are higher beings.

The memorials on Active Worlds are commonplace in pretty much every internet community that's been up long enough to lose members. I play Ragnarok Online on a server that's been up for over 15 years and we have a memorial room on it where you can visit the characters of those who passed away in "ghost form" and leave a comment. I feel it's a necessary feature to mourn those friends who you met online and maybe never got to see face to face. I've traveled abroad to meet some of them, it's an experience that it's impossible to replicate for everyone you meet in such scenario.

@rebeccajeane8287

6 ай бұрын

Yup, in Second Life, we have countless memorial gardens for those that have passed. A lot of my inworld friends have shrines in their homes for a mutual friend of ours that lost her battle with cancer.

@AxelTheDoggo

4 ай бұрын

VRCHAT is the same too

@javierortiz82

4 ай бұрын

@@AxelTheDoggohave yet to try VR Chat

@maxEmaxxy

3 ай бұрын

​@@rebeccajeane8287 How active is second life at this point?

@rebeccajeane8287

3 ай бұрын

@@maxEmaxxy I'd say it's fairly active. Probably a quarter of the avatars are just bots, and the rest are either afk on their parcels or filling the shopping/club sims to the max, but I've met plenty who were testing out their RVs on the mainland roads or exploring. I heard that some of the voice chat sims have been shut down due to griefing, but I never really went to those before, so not a huge loss to me.

18:39 I'm sorry... theres a person who's been playing a game that is older than me and for as long as I have been alive? That's some serious dedication!

@AngerMaker413

6 ай бұрын

That’s crazy to me too because my ADHD only allows me to play a game no more than two weeks tops before I don’t touch it again for 2 years

@KazyEXE

6 ай бұрын

I've been playing AW since '97.

@arbitrary2868

6 ай бұрын

@@KazyEXE My goodness, that's older than my brother! Serious props to you for sticking with a game for 27 years!

@KazyEXE

6 ай бұрын

@@arbitrary2868 Helps that I started when I was 9~10 so I'm not quite an old geezer yet. 😅

@fnsshehrbvfgyssbvvsmmmdjjd4611

6 ай бұрын

I’ve been playing TF2 for over half my life lol

No idea why this showed up on my home page but I'm glad it did. KZread seems so boring lately but this has my full attention and I'd love to see more.

@teresaruiz4333

6 ай бұрын

Same I almost gotta ask if you’ve found any more like these but this channel has some good stuff

Activ World is like the online equivalent of exploring an abandoned mall

My birthday is actually March 26, 1997 which is the exact date when the Heaven's Gate members all died

@user-ix5fq3zg4g

3 ай бұрын

One of them was reincarnated into you

@Nintendoes2

3 ай бұрын

must have ran in to a glitch in the matrix@@user-ix5fq3zg4g

@theredrooster7143

3 ай бұрын

So it worked

@KingC89

2 ай бұрын

Maybe you're a reincarnation of one of the members

@ArjunTheRageGuy

2 ай бұрын

Heaven's Gate real confirmed???

Time Cube used to be a source of mild amusement for me but now it just makes me sad, as I recently discovered that the author of this website was suffering from untreated schizophrenia, not only that, but other people would write to him or even interview him just to essentially egg him on or just put his insanity on display for others to gawk at. Seems pretty obvious now, considering the rampant, paranoid ramblings that make up Time Cube, but in retrospect I wish he had gotten proper treatment instead of being turned into the internet equivalent of a circus freak.

@MCKejml

4 ай бұрын

This is something that I find heartbreaking too. Just today I learned what the term "lolcow" means. How low can some people go...

@oceanexblve884

2 ай бұрын

@@MCKejmlwhat does it mean

@tangerinemarmalade3326

2 ай бұрын

​@@oceanexblve884basically a person who can be "milked" for their reactions which some people found fun (ugh) basically those are people who for various reasons (be it neurodivergency, mental disability, mental Illness, very low exposure to internet etc etc) react in an exaggerated way to most provocations self proclaimed "trolls" usually mess with them and find their mental breakdowns amusing :/

i love personal blogs from the 2000s and even 90s. the fact that they're left intact for like 20 years with all of the user's little entries and images is so amazing to me

@Mousey10101

Ай бұрын

I would say it may be time to go back to personal blogs? Thinking of making one myself

Hale-Bopp and Haley's Comet are two different things.

Honestly "dead" sites can be excellent for researching niche topics. I visit a few regularly to get detailed info on maritime history.

Idk what it is about old websites but I've always loved the aesthetic, it evokes a crazy feeling. Even when I was little, certain websites felt surreal to me

I enjoyed seeing Activeworlds. It's like a platform where people can create their own museum which will last forever online. Ladypippen'sworld was very impressive, especially because that was her own art. It's cool to see people have fun and also get to meet other game players. This is real nice.

So many virtual worlds that were around during 9/11 have a tribute of some kind or memorial, etc., esp if it's a sandbox-style world. 9/11 was so intense, it permeated into every facet of our lives at the time. TBH, it's really cool to see the memorial still sitting there untouched. It's a glimpse into the mindset of average citizens at the time. It was a very uniting time in the western world - something I recall fondly with how divided we have become. I was only 9 years old back then, but it was enough to leave a huge impression on me. Thanks for thoroughly exploring some really cool, odd stuff. I love old, bizarre relics of the internet that no one even knows of. It's day 3 of 4 of today so I need to sleep before day 4 starts. I am now a devout believer of Time Cubism or w/e.

@Dratchev241

6 ай бұрын

And just think about it, we have people who can legally drink who wasn't alive when 9/11 happened. 9/11 itself is sad in so many ways. not only the loss of life but the bad changes that came after. 9/11 was the start of the dark times.

@nerdatello

2 ай бұрын

@@Dratchev241i was born a day before 😅

It's wild to me that there are people young enough that they've never accidentally stumbled on to the Time Cube site on their own.

@robokill387

6 ай бұрын

I'm 31 and haven't.

@ARMASOG

6 ай бұрын

@@robokill387i have played active worlds but i didn't realize it was that old.

@anemonedreams838

6 ай бұрын

I didn't and I'm 33. But I didn't have access to the internet unfiltered until 2008 when I went to college.

@baconatorrodriguez4651

6 ай бұрын

Well...we're not boomers, so

@agranero6

6 ай бұрын

Students of a University called him to do a presentation and mock him he didn't even seem to realize. It was sad to see a man clearly suffering from mental illness being humiliated that way. It was nasty case of abusing of vulnerable that could not know better. I expected more from people from a University What will they do when they get out of the University and get to positions of power.

Relics of a time when people made websites, not facebook pages.

@Canleaf08

6 ай бұрын

And nonsense was not that visible.

@wiseguy9202

8 күн бұрын

Geocities? Angelfire? I created my own websites on Geocities around 1996. It was great! Since the clear web has become convoluted and expensive to create them today, many of us just moved over to the Tor to continue. Which is basically an extension of the early web.

Ah yes, Hale Bopp. That was fascinating, seeing it appear in the sky and just hanging there at night. A beauty to behold. You were lucky if you saw it, as it's something that happens only really once in a lifetime at that magnificence.

@thomasdjonesn

6 ай бұрын

It looked larger seeing it in person than the images make it out to be. It really was one of the most dramatic and beautiful things I've ever seen. It really put life in perspective.

@mariecarie1

6 ай бұрын

I remember seeing it as a kid. I knew it was a big deal, but it’s been so long I can’t really remember exactly what I saw, and that makes me sad.

@b8nnytez

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, it was pretty spectacular, and, weirdly, everything has since changed, for the WORSE imho.

He's right about the USS Liberty though......

@linusp9316

2 ай бұрын

Antisemites are weirdly obsessed with USS Liberty. You'll never get a straight answer about why an incident from 55 years ago is so important to them, or what it's supposed to mean or imply about Jews, but purely as a dogwhistle, they love it

@linusp9316

2 ай бұрын

Not really. Antisemites are weirdly obsessed with USS Liberty. You'll never get a straight answer about why an incident from 55 years ago is so important to them, or what it's supposed to mean or imply about Jewish people.. but purely as a dogwhistle, they love it

I Will watch the video later, was hoping to see your content, im the guy named joseph frederick that you found, we started playing with a friend of mine (caleb brown lmao)

@Sacrow

6 ай бұрын

Glad you found the video

That active worlds site makes an odd amount of sense when you look at the cemetery for real people. It was clearly a place where an older population just kept coming back. The kind that was getting kinda old when it first came out. They developed relationships with other folk, and built a tight knit community. And that justifies the price tag. They also didnt want to learn a newer game like minecraft, so they stuck with it.

AlphaWorld is the main building world, and is insanely huge. It's over 400 square miles.

active worlds seems like liminal hell, therefore i love it

Nice, love these forgotten internet site videos, it would be cool to hear about abandoned MMO game servers one day.

"God evolves from Santa" that's some deep shit right there

I love old internet stuff, because I was online since the mid 90s so the contrast is vivid since I remember Hail bopp, not hailey bopp iirc. 2 members remain to maintain the site, this was prearranged.

internet archaeology is always interesting because they are the people that help us not forget the past of the internet, help protect sites and their contents that otherwise would be lost to the sands of the code. like the old sites of Nintendo '98 and cartoon network games but with flash gone that's harder to get to work, i will always love and appreciate those people and the way back machine.

If you ever need inspiration for a sci-fi horror, I firmly believe you just need to find a nutcase conspiracy theory. "Time Cubism" sounds awesome as a basis for a story. Much thanks for the awesome video, I love discovering stuff like this.

@raeganj6744

6 ай бұрын

I have a theory that a decent amount of conspiracy theorists are just failed authors

@the13throse

6 ай бұрын

Just make sure to filter out all the weird bigotry that most conspiracy theorists seem to fall into

@hanashi5727

5 ай бұрын

@@the13throse He was mentally ill and prejudiced by his time period. I mean, people openly hate Christians, Whites and Conservatives and are asspatted by media and the education system, yet never self reflect on their own "bigotry". Now people hate Jews openly or Russians, because it's of the era, yet again, don't reflect on their "bigotry". Perhaps you feel it's justified to openly hate the above, but it's just as unreasonable and obstinate as what you deem bigoted, ergo, it's just as bigoted.

@the13throse

5 ай бұрын

@@hanashi5727 sir this is a wendy's

@watchmehope6560

4 ай бұрын

You give me bigot vibes ( i like tossing buzzwords around too) ​@@the13throse

Mass…ascension is a nice way of beating the censor-machine. Keep on keeping on.

@nxmx6ix

6 ай бұрын

And it is perfectly on topic, too. Sacrow was a genius on that.

A LOT of those trees in Active Worlds look like assets taken from EverQuest. It's very jarring because none of the other assets look like that. They're so disparate from each other, even the other plants.

@Sacrow

6 ай бұрын

A lot of the assets are actually newer. They are taking and updating older assets. Not sure if that means players are grabbing assets and importing them or if it's from the devs.

There’s a lot of information available about Heaven’s Gate. Not just the website. The members did not intend to delete themselves when they joined or even when they were partaking in their meetings. That part came in due to Doe’s grief over the loss of Ti. She was the one calling the shots. He was just the voice and face. Without her, he could only spiral.

@tillitsdone

6 ай бұрын

He was insane.

@CTCxSIS

6 ай бұрын

@@tillitsdone intelligent contribution. Thank you.

@FreeportHometown

6 ай бұрын

@@CTCxSISYou have something better?

@CTCxSIS

6 ай бұрын

@@FreeportHometown Another A++ contribution. Y’all are so educated, I’m swooning.

@BellXllebMusic

5 ай бұрын

​@@FreeportHometown Well, insanity is such a vague word that tries to silence further thought into the subject. Is it too fearful to think about the details of how people reach insanity? Are you too afraid that you have the potential inside you too?

U.S.S. Liberty happened for real though.

@Slay_No_More

6 ай бұрын

It was mentioned on the video?

Activeworlds has a lot of worlds based on tv-series and movies like "the 13th floor", X-files and even Buffy. The universe itself was loosely based on the novel "Snowcrash" by Neal Stephenson; when entering COFMETA you get the greeting "*Smiles* ENZO Loves U", which hints at that...

It was comet Hale-Bopp, not Halley. Halley's Comet already came in 1986, and won't be back till the 2060s.

"A radio station that only plays 80s music, for some reason" For some reason? Radio stations dedicated to the music of specific decades aren't that uncommon.

Man it's a helluva thing when the Halloween level is the least creepy part of a game.

It was not the "Halley" comet. It was the Hale-Bopp comet.

The segment last segment is what really made this video. The end is nigh guy was really fascinating. I'm curious to find out if the other couple people in the room were actually other people or just him on different accounts.

ActiveWorlds is so fascinating. It's so ancient and lo-fi that it immediately gives off weird vibes. All the memorials make it seem like a lot of older people who really could just not let the game go, and the people who did back in like 2000 make it seem eerie and abandoned. Truly a weird dead zone.

REMEMBER THE USS LIBERTY

@linusp9316

2 ай бұрын

It's a dogwhistle

All this corporatization these days... we once had it so much better here. We traded our souls for convience. But it's not too late. We forged the old internet by our own hands, we can rebuild once again. You don't have to give up the convience of the modern internet entirely, but consider moving away when and where you can. We complain about what was lost and rightfully so, but so many don't realize their hands can help to revive it. Even if you are but one, your actions can help to build a framework for others to come and use.

@KazyEXE

6 ай бұрын

For what it's worth, there was a ton of corporate stuff in AW. There were quite a few movie tie-in worlds (mainly X-Files and Godzilla '98), and probably a few other things I can't remember since it's been well over 20 years.

@Biotear

6 ай бұрын

@@KazyEXE Yes but the issue is, back then they didn't realize they could milk the internet to the detriment of everyone else. The lightning is out of the bottle, the only option is to deny them another inch.

Just found this channel: love your content and style. Reminds me a bit of Atrocity Guide with the “neutral NPR reporter” style of script reading narrating various creepy, disturbing, or Internet mystery content. All that's missing is a creepy synth music background. Great work!

@jonsense4937

6 ай бұрын

the narrator sounds like blameitonjorge to me

@stefaniac.8846

6 ай бұрын

This guy's accent is hard to understand. He speaks like if he had a hot potato on the mouth. I had to put CC.

@Stevie-J

5 ай бұрын

I listen to a lot of NPR and it is absolutely not neutral on most issues

@jong.7944

5 ай бұрын

@@Stevie-J Yeah, it fell apart like most journalism did in the latter half of the Obama administration and of course 2016 broke the left's collective sanity forever. But in former times even with a liberal bias it wasn't the deranged leftism of today, it was the older pro-free speech/pro-critical reasoning liberalism that could present both sides of a story or agree to disagree. And the news readers were trained to maintain that neutral tone of voice, which today, you know, I don't even know if the weather forecast doesn't have leftist politics inserted into it.

I remember listing surfing the web as one of my hobbies in middle school (90s). People would come to our house and be like oh my God you have the internet?? Lemme see! I remember websites looking like these in terms of design. Like other people have said the internet had so much more character back then before corporations started taking over

If ur ever curious, IMpressive Title servers and the game itself is a rabbit hole of its own. Many of the servers are still up but abandoned and empty. They give liminal space vibes. The lore of Impressive title and the following game: feral heart is also a rabbit hole of its own.

Lady Pippin’s stuff was genuinely incredible. That’s just fascinating.

The 'old internet' was all about communication back in the day; two decades later, Big Tech, Big Business and Social Media have mutated it into nothing more than one annoying, invasive advertising billboard, a money making now being FORCED on people (Saas), privacy invasion, making money off people's data and are purposely designed to 'keep you engaged and addicted' - the web industry has UI/UX designers dedicated to making it this way! The old web was about the end user - today's web is about corporations exploiting the end user. DisruptApps will put the end user first and bring back the spirit of the old, simple internet in 2024.

@nidhoggstrike

6 ай бұрын

DisruptApps? I haven't heard of you before, how will you revive the old internet?

Comet Hale-Bopp, and Haley’s Comet are two unrelated comets.

Great vid dude! I love listening to these while I'm working, really makes time go by. Keep up the great work!

FYI- It's pronounced like hail. Hale-Bopp and Halley's are two different comets with wildly different orbital periods.

abandoned websites will always have a somewhat liminal space feeling. Knowing it was once full of people and seeing it inactive is eerie.

Interesting video! Definitely gives me a sense of nostalgia seeing the internet how it was in its infancy, even though I didn’t peruse these particular websites back in the day.

I went and saw Time Cube guy when he spoke at Georgia Tech. People tried to disprove his ramblings. He had two signs at the front of the room. One said “Reserved for Professor” and “Reserved for God”. My friend and I went up st the end and bought a t-shirt, and stole those signs (they were just pieces of paper)

25:07 I..... didn't expect the Hardy Boyz (circa TNA) to show up in this video, let alone in a 3D modelled server.

Such an interesting video! There's something so captivating about finding old things on the internet that have laid dormant for many years. That memorial of dead players of Activeworlds is very unsettling to me, there's something about peoples lives being immortalised online that makes it feel wrong and haunting. After having a go at Activeworlds myself, it definitely has this creepy, liminal feeling to it. Everywhere I went, I felt like I didn't belong, like I wasn't meant to be there. It has that feeling that you would get while exploring a part of a game that you aren't meant to enter normally.

I liked this video just for the Silent Hill tracks

We need a whole video seeing all of Lady Pippen's worlds. I kind of want to explore them all but am too lazy to download that game

I spent SOOO many hours in AW back in the day. I still have a few builds in the main world but I couldn't tell you those coords anymore. I discovered Second Life and have been in there on and off since 2008.

That internet chatroom game is crazy impressive for the time. Seems like it was really ahead of it's time.

Man that game exploration part very seemed interesting. I always liked those first person museum travel games ever since i played Namco Museum Vol. 3 when i was little.

Active Words definitely looks like an early Second Life model. What a find!!

Active Worlds (and its predecessor, BowieWorld) is better described as a virtual world than a game. Without AW there would be no Second Life. Without Second Life there would be no Ready Player One, or San Junipero (Black Mirror) you could argue without Ready Player One novel and film, there would be no evolution of the 'modern' metaverse concept. It bothers me when people look down on Active Worlds, it was the Minecraft of its time.

The Hale-Bopp comet is not the same as Haley’s comet. Two different comets, and the one that was the impetus for the mass unaliving was Hale-Bopp.

For the heavens gate the commet is pronounced like the snow Hale. Not Hailey

This video includes the most detailed description of a suiclide cult I've ever heard. This is insane, but worded so with such an odd care and logic, like this is just a normal thing Also, I watched a cool guy named Vinesauce explore the now desolate Active Worlds maps and it's a truly bizarre experience. Well worth watching

In 1995 Pacific F1 were a competing team in Formula 1. They went bust at the end of that year, yet they had a very early web page, which amazingly survived until 2019. Nothing really exciting on it, but in 2019, it must have been the oldest still live webpage.

7:20 - it wasn't Halley's comet it was the Hale-Bopp comet. There was a conspiracy theory circulating from the Art Bell show about an alien craft following the comet and they believed it had to do with their cult.

@Dratchev241

6 ай бұрын

i remember that. loved to listen to art bell. do you remember the one where a guy called freaked out that said he worked at area 51 and started going on about things then the show went dead?

I printed the entire Anarchists Cookbook in like 5th grade....

@Elytr1

4 ай бұрын

Lol

I remember listening to Art Bell when the Hale-Bopp comet was coming. He had a guest who said there was a space ship behind the comet. Then all those people killed themselves. A bunch of them had also castrated themselves. Really sad.

There's no way that this guy isn't related to, or is, in fact, Blameitonjorge, himself. You sound just like him. I'm not knocking you at all. Jorge is great.

@fordakacar

6 ай бұрын

i’ve been thinking this for a minute. same upload schedule too

@RazorChampion99

6 ай бұрын

Yeah. Either it's the same person or Sacrow just sounds eerily like him

@scrunkore

6 ай бұрын

he's probably just a really big fan

@Based_Gigachad_001

6 ай бұрын

​@@RazorChampion99 Probably his brother.

@nman551

6 ай бұрын

It’s an alternate of Jorge and he’s in your walls! Just kidding

I used to spend hours on Activeworlds as a teen in the late 90s. I got a big hit of nostalgia seeing you cover it here.

As tasteless as I find the censorship of proper words referring to this act (and no, random passing commenter who isn't Sacrow himself, I _don't_ need you parroting the """explanation""" everyone seems to think will change my mind about this after the 100th time hearing it), I'm glad you at least used their messed-up terminology for their suicide pact rather than the quite frankly disrespectful u-"word". It'd've obviously been better to use the actual terminology, but in all fairness that _is_ what they thought they were doing. They were victims, both of suicide and more prominently of cult brainwashing.

Heavens gate is an abomination and a disgusting twisting of scripture.

Honestly, that time cube website is probably what it would sound like if I posted my private journals online. The mind is a wild f*cker.

@skitykittycat

6 ай бұрын

I should clarify: The reality of existence sort of ramblings NOT the racism or antisemitism!!!

Cliff Yablonski Hates You is a fun page from Something Aweful, hasn’t been updated since 2005 I think.

Finally not a murder mysteries and creepy pasta Internet mystery video 🎉

The internet should be unmoderated, uncensored and open. Miss the old internet

JesusisGodTV is probably the most 90s thing I have seen.

I had a feeling Heaven's Gate would be mentioned in this. 2 men didn't go through that "process" and f3lt deep regret. They attempted to join them months later. One man passed away, and one was found unconscious but survived. In 1999, he was successful. The photos and the video tape were so creepy. The media didn't hold back they showed all 39 members. The final 2 women who were the last to go looked like they were in a rush to join them. They were the only bodies that didn't have the purple veil on their faces. They were found with black garbage bags wrapped so slopoy around their heads. It was so creepy to see those images.

That's weird, I actually understand the time cube guys math, if you're standing in any four of the phases, sunup, sundown, midday, midnight then your 24 hours is simultaneously occurring at the same time as as a part of the other four zones 24 hours leading to 96 hours in one day.... The bigotry and hate makes people less receptive to it, but it makes a little bit of sense, I don't understand how he arrives at a 4 day week, but that's some trippy shit he's throwing out there, I can't argue with the 96 hours in one day, it's infallible....

Thanks for the information man

The active worlds one sounds like a rral backrooms type blayground.

I was glued to the screen with this video! Not sure why KZread recommended it, but more please!!

There's something so somber about abandoned webpages. Things that were once so new and exciting and now old and desolate.

I'm looking for an ISS video where astronauts are there, and the one on the right of the screen reaches for an object (that's not there), grabs it (invisible, the width of a big hamburger), sways his hand around like he's holding something, then carefully places it down (invisible the entire time). It was so awkward, but now it's been scrubbed from the internet.

The Endless is a great science fiction movie that focuses on two former members of a cult similar to HG. It's an independent film, well written and quite original considering the comparison to Heaven's Gate.

@Sacrow

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the info. I might have to check it out.

@machfront

6 ай бұрын

@@SacrowYou really should. The other commenter is right: it’s very well-written and well done. Creepy and fascinating. Great film.

I loved AW back in the day. I had a couple of home worlds, but stopped building when most of my buddies moved on to games like Everquest, WoW and Guild Wars. It was a lot of fun to build those worlds, create new bitmaps and models. We made roller coasters and elevators and diving boards to name just a few. Another thing that drove me away was the goal seemed to want to become an internet commerce place, and the pricing model went up significantly. Still looks just the same though.

I played Active Worlds back in like 01, 02 when I wasn't busy playing RuneScape 1.0 or The Sims Online. I have been trying to remember what it was called to research it ever since then. Wow, what an unlocked memory. I do remember it looking rougher than that and being extremely difficult to build in-game, perhaps I played the beta of it.