Did anyone happen to save the SA AOL Search Log Special?

December 9, 2023 4:27 AM

I’m so sad. The Something Awful AOL Search Log Special (in which they posted the weirdest search histories from AOL’s 2006 leak) was the funniest thing I have ever read in my life, and I revisit it every few months… it’s gone now. Did anyone save it anywhere?
posted by wheatlets to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

Best answer: Is it just that the images are missing? The Wayback Machine has a copy, which seems to work for me. (TWs all round for 2006 internet humour)
posted by Klipspringer at 5:17 AM on December 9, 2023

Oh man, that reminds me of when it was A Thing to go through your server logs to find weird referrer strings.
posted by adamrice at 9:06 AM on December 9, 2023 [1 favorite]

Archive.today also I think missing the images?
posted by ellieBOA at 12:15 PM on December 9, 2023

Just a heads-up that if you, like me, love that kind of random ephemera, the samples taken and framing around them contain triggers for basically anything you might be sensitive to including SA, mental health crises, racism, child death (pages 1 and 2).
posted by Iteki at 8:53 PM on December 9, 2023 [1 favorite]