Tried to find the original source for a 2008 meme and it took me 6 hours

I was looking up this weird old flash animation from like 2008, the one with the dancing baby with a creepy grin. The link I found on a forum was broken, it just redirected to some ad farm for diet pills. I thought I could find a backup on the Wayback Machine but the URL was so mangled it had extra slashes and weird characters. After digging through 4 different archive snapshots, I finally found a cached version on a Geocities clone site. The whole thing felt like a cursed treasure hunt with nothing valuable at the end. Has anyone else wasted a whole afternoon chasing an old link that just leads nowhere useful?

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emeryn833d ago

Six hours to find out the internet used to look like a fever dream.

spencer_wood3d ago

Man I spent like three hours one night going through old Geocities pages and the GeoCities Aquarium. It was like digital archeology but way more chaotic. Everything was glitter gifs and midi files playing terrible versions of songs. Felt like I was looking at a time capsule from another dimension.