Post by thebutler on Jul 28, 2024 21:39:12 GMT
I'm fairly new to the Lost Media forums, so I apologize if I get anything wrong.
During the pandemic (mid 2020 - early/mid 2021), I came across a boredom website while looking through the search results after looking up The Useless Web, and became practically infatuated with one of the games/functions on the site. The main page of the site itself had a blue-ish (Maybe purple?) color scheme to it, with several buttons that led to the games/functions it provided. I only remember two of the games provided, one of them a ball game, maybe like those ball websites teachers would use to keep their classes at the correct voice levels. (See mockup image, I'm sorry if it's hard to read, I'm still learning how his site works)
One of the functions I distinctly remember is the TV channel styled site, where whenever you clicked/pressed space, it'd switch to another video or "channel". All the videos, to my knowledge, were all strange and obscure, but barely even reaching into eerie territory, and ranged from old Vine-esque skits, old commercials (I remember one was specifically for the old 90's Furbies/Furby Babies), and strange possible art projects(?). One I have a VERY vivid memory of is a video of just the face of a white plush dog with large, shiny black eyes and a baby blue nose, looking like it was made out of a fuzzy white sock. It was heavily shaded with black shadows surrounding it, with a blue, almost water-like reflection dawning on it, and Jai Paul - BTSTU faintly playing in the background, sounding as if it were playing in another room or underwater. Every beat the song played, the image of the plush dog would distort and stretch in a cartoonish manner, until the song ended. The only other two videos I have memory of is a skit of one, maybe two people in a warm toned laundry room, looking like it was recorded on an old samsung phone or just an old phone in general, and then the 90's Furby ad. Sometimes when switching to the next video/channel, it'd play the colorblock "NO SIGNAL" TV screen for a split second, or static, before changing to the actual video. (See mockups below, no mockups of the Furby commercial or the laundry room skit were made, sorry)
I used to have the face of the plush dog as the background of my music app on my old phone, but it became bricked and refused to even charge. The original device I found and visited the website on is bricked as well, or at the very least retired, as it was a 15 year old HP laptop we got from our grandpa that had to be hard reset several times due to it freezing, so any trace of the site on that, whether or not I bookmarked it, is gone. I also apologize for the bad mockups I made, I'm not too good at drawing realism but I hope they get the point across.
If anyone remembers or has any information about this site, please let me know! I'm going insane trying to find it again at this point
During the pandemic (mid 2020 - early/mid 2021), I came across a boredom website while looking through the search results after looking up The Useless Web, and became practically infatuated with one of the games/functions on the site. The main page of the site itself had a blue-ish (Maybe purple?) color scheme to it, with several buttons that led to the games/functions it provided. I only remember two of the games provided, one of them a ball game, maybe like those ball websites teachers would use to keep their classes at the correct voice levels. (See mockup image, I'm sorry if it's hard to read, I'm still learning how his site works)
One of the functions I distinctly remember is the TV channel styled site, where whenever you clicked/pressed space, it'd switch to another video or "channel". All the videos, to my knowledge, were all strange and obscure, but barely even reaching into eerie territory, and ranged from old Vine-esque skits, old commercials (I remember one was specifically for the old 90's Furbies/Furby Babies), and strange possible art projects(?). One I have a VERY vivid memory of is a video of just the face of a white plush dog with large, shiny black eyes and a baby blue nose, looking like it was made out of a fuzzy white sock. It was heavily shaded with black shadows surrounding it, with a blue, almost water-like reflection dawning on it, and Jai Paul - BTSTU faintly playing in the background, sounding as if it were playing in another room or underwater. Every beat the song played, the image of the plush dog would distort and stretch in a cartoonish manner, until the song ended. The only other two videos I have memory of is a skit of one, maybe two people in a warm toned laundry room, looking like it was recorded on an old samsung phone or just an old phone in general, and then the 90's Furby ad. Sometimes when switching to the next video/channel, it'd play the colorblock "NO SIGNAL" TV screen for a split second, or static, before changing to the actual video. (See mockups below, no mockups of the Furby commercial or the laundry room skit were made, sorry)
I used to have the face of the plush dog as the background of my music app on my old phone, but it became bricked and refused to even charge. The original device I found and visited the website on is bricked as well, or at the very least retired, as it was a 15 year old HP laptop we got from our grandpa that had to be hard reset several times due to it freezing, so any trace of the site on that, whether or not I bookmarked it, is gone. I also apologize for the bad mockups I made, I'm not too good at drawing realism but I hope they get the point across.
If anyone remembers or has any information about this site, please let me know! I'm going insane trying to find it again at this point
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