It made me realize how finding stuff like that used to be normal, not something an algorithm picks for you.
So I was tidying up my browser and totally wiped my bookmark folder by accident lol. I freaked out because I had years of links saved there for work and fun. I spent hours digging through my history, feeling pretty dumb about the whole thing. While scrolling, I came across this old forum thread from 2012 talking about underground music scenes. Someone had linked to a site called 'Analog Echoes' with tons of rare concert tapes from the 90s. The site is so off the grid that it never pops up in normal searches or recommended feeds. After all that stress, it felt like a tiny win to uncover something so cool on my own. Now I've got a new spot to chill and listen to music I would've never seen otherwise.
I was trying to remember old websites and one brought up scanned newspapers from the 1920s. This archive doesn't show up in searches, so I came across it myself.