rotten.com
rotten.com was a website that dealt with the display of morbid curiosities . These included unusual deaths and illnesses , photos from autopsies or forensics , depictions of perversions and other sexual acts, and other topics that were regarded as daunting. rotten.com described itself as an “archive of disturbing illustration”. The classification as a "shocking site" was widespread, but the start page was always free of such images. rotten.com and its sub and secondary pages were operated by Soylent Communications.
history
rotten.com was started in 1996 by a computer scientist in California. The website suggests that he wrote a computer program that returned all of the unregistered domain names that appeared in a dictionary. He then registered the domain name for 100 US dollars without first have a concept what he should do with it.
On October 4, 2001, the district government of Düsseldorf decreed that, based on the State Treaty on Media Services of 1997, access providers in Germany must prevent access to the site. After protests, however , rotten.com was exempted from the blocking order. Some search engines such as Google Germany also partially filter out results that point to rotten.com . Critics accused the Düsseldorf state government of operating censorship in this way .
Rotten.com has only been updated sporadically since 2009 , the homepage for the last time in July 2011, the page as a whole in February 2012.
The website is blocked for telecom users in the network or a time-out is reported.
On November 29, 2017, rotten.com finally went offline.
Rotten Library
Compared to the main page, the Rotten Library offers a less grotesque compilation of information and images in the form of lexicon entries. She states that her goal is “ to bring together an unforgettable collection of everything that humanity has sworn to forget ”. The entries are usually formulated very critically, e.g. B. the biographies of Henry Ford and Bill Gates .
The library has so far been subdivided into 17 categories such as death , occult , conspiracy , religion or crime. One focus is on the collection of biographies . Some of the articles are illustrated drastically.
Offer on rotten.com
At the end of 1999 " The Daily Rotten " was started. On this page news articles were linked that deal with the bizarre or macabre current topics, for example reports of terrorism , brutal murders , suicides , cruelty or rape . The " Today in Rotten History " section takes a look at history, which lists noteworthy events that have happened on the current calendar day in the past. The Daily Rotten was very popular in the wake of September 11, 2001 , which the operators see as one of the reasons for the popularity of the site.
The " Rotten Dead Pool " has existed since November 2003 . This is a game where each player has to name ten people who they think will die over the next 12 months. For each correct guess the player gets one point (unless the person was already sentenced to death at the time of the selection or the player himself killed them).
In mid-2002 the “ Notable Names Database ” (NNDB) was launched, which continues the idea of the Rotten Library's biographical collection.
Another site founded by rotten.com is " Sports Dignity ", a picture gallery from the world of sports . Here athletes can be viewed who bare their genitals , point their fingers to the camera or who have suffered explicit injuries.
Another page from rotten.com is “ Rate my Poo ”. On this side waste products are photographed. Users can upload pictures of their own excrement to this page.
Web links
- rotten.com (offline)
Individual evidence
- ^ Lessons on the Internet, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich
- ↑ To filter foreign websites by German search engines
- ↑ : Netzcensur in Deutschland / NRW ( Memento from March 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on datenreisen.de, accessed April 8, 2008
- ↑ Whatever happened to rotten.com ( Memento from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of May 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from August 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive )