# What can you not find on the internet? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 19, 2012, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121 "2012-09-19T00:12:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mewl\_Dear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Mewl\_Dear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mewl_Dear)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/1 "2012-09-19T00:12:41Z")
It seems to me everything is out here. Anything you can not find enough info about? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/2 "2012-09-19T00:20:28Z")
_Read It! With John Robbins_, that show on PBS where a dude draws scenes from books while reading the books. It was an awesome show and everyone in their 30s remembers it and would probably buy it on DVD for their kids but there’s hardly anything online about it. Just this one YouTube video of one incarnation of the show, [The Book Bird](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1xa6vzInC8). And an episode guide [here](http://www.rickstv.com/tvo/readit.html). Not even a Wikipedia article! ---
**Author:** ![Troppus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@Troppus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troppus)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/3 "2012-09-19T00:26:14Z")
Madeline Kahn singing Lonely Frog on SNL. Information about this smoking stand [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15498355](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15498355) ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/4 "2012-09-19T00:26:18Z")
A strangely memorable TV ad for Philadelphia-area radio station B101.1 from the mid to late 1990s. “More music in the morning… that’s the difference!” ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/5 "2012-09-19T00:27:17Z")
> [@Mewl\_Dear](#): > > What can you not find on the internet? Free porn ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/6 "2012-09-19T00:32:48Z")
The video for “Atlantic City” by Gums N’ Roses. The meaning behind a bumper sticker I saw a few times (on the same car) that had an American flag on it and said “Pope for Rider”. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/7 "2012-09-19T00:40:54Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Free porn What?!? That’s an example of something I can’t NOT find on the internet! ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/8 "2012-09-19T01:04:41Z")
I saw a bumper sticker the other day that said, “A Homeless Beard is Hard to Find.” There was more text ID’ing the organization, but I couldn’t make it out. Google came up empty on the phrase. Also, from time to time over in Cafe Society, there will be a thread about movies that were poorly marketed. I always bring up _The Iron Giant,_ which had an ad campaign that dishonestly played up the shoot-em-up moment near the end of Act 2 where the Giant is handing the Army its ass. I have NEVER been able to find the commercial I’m talking about online. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/9 "2012-09-19T01:33:56Z")
I cannot find any information on a friend I had in Primary (Grade) School. I haven’t actually asked anyone and am not on Facebook, so maybe I’m unintentionally limiting myself, but I am surprised nonetheless that he seems to not have any presence online. I fear it may be that he is deceased. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/10 "2012-09-19T01:56:06Z")
I’ve never been able to find out anything about my dad. Common last name, he tends to move around a lot in the south (avoiding child support and working under the table), and he’s of an age demographic that he’s likely not to be found on social networks. However, I was easily able to find lots of information about a now-deceased lady with a common name and no family, born in 1898, who had been a church friend of my mom’s when I was little. She certainly wasn’t on Facebook. Odd what makes it online, odd what doesn’t. I also have never found an answer to what “WOTFN” means. It’s a bit of Sharpie graffiti, written in small block letters, that appears all over the place in Greenwood and southside Indianapolis, and has been appearing for over a decade (probably closer to 20 years). Restrooms, gas pumps, store shelves, restaurant tables, etc. I’ve found lots of stuff online from other Indy-area people asking what it means, and a few guesses that it’s a racist acronym (“Wipe Out the Fucking…” you can guess the last word), but never have found confirmation. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/11 "2012-09-19T02:13:35Z")
In the 70’s they used to have this show. I’m nopt sure if it was local or not, but I used to see it in Tulsa OK. The (game) show was called “The Bible Bowl”. It had this old, creepy, pedo looking guy that would host it. The only reason I know this show exists, is because this was the show that would come on right before “Kids Are People too!”. I remeber that show used to give me the creeps. Even as a little kid. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/12 "2012-09-19T02:21:35Z")
What can I not find on the internet? A whole lot. Really, for those of us old enough to be pre-internet, the internet (the world wide web, actually) at it’s inception held the promise of being the font of all human knowledge. But as it matured - and once they figured out how to monetize with advertisements - it hasn’t lived up to it’s promise by any stretch. How many times have I typed something into google and the first fifty items on the list are ads and aggregated websites? Or sites where you are stumped as to why it was a match (hidden text?) Then there’s paywalls, etc. Geez, it’s crap CRAP! ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/13 "2012-09-19T02:29:08Z")
I have never found a [Sears Jet Propelled Glider from the 1960s](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vf9cgYA4CxY/SVLpHlIcvMI/AAAAAAAAG-Y/S8MKpaDx1U0/s400/Whoosh!.jpg) for sale. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/14 "2012-09-19T02:37:08Z")
Links to radio commercials, and specifically one that used to air in the 90s for LA Cellular (I think) that had the line “Naughty mermaid! Can I fluff your pillow?” in it. Don’t remember any thing else about it, but in my head, it was hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/15 "2012-09-19T02:47:10Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > I have never found a [Sears Jet Propelled Glider from the 1960s](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vf9cgYA4CxY/SVLpHlIcvMI/AAAAAAAAG-Y/S8MKpaDx1U0/s400/Whoosh!.jpg) for sale. I sooooo wanted one of those. ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/16 "2012-09-19T03:27:53Z")
Smut fanfiction starring Ariel from The Little Mermaid and Charlie the Starkist Tuna mascot. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/17 "2012-09-19T04:04:31Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I cannot find any information on a friend I had in Primary (Grade) School. I haven’t actually asked anyone and am not on Facebook, so maybe I’m unintentionally limiting myself, but I am surprised nonetheless that he seems to not have any presence online. I fear it may be that he is deceased. While not being completely not findable on the internet, someone who’d I’d love to know how they are doing today yields one very old picture, one photograph on an obscure personal website, and a few mentions of their deceased father as “survived by”. I Google every once in a while, but this person just does not have an online presence, or, alas, they’ve passed away. I think it is the former. At any rate, I only wish them health and happiness, and I wish that the web would confirm both statuses! ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/18 "2012-09-19T04:07:07Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > What can I not find on the internet? A whole lot. > > Really, for those of us old enough to be pre-internet, the internet (the world wide web, actually) at it’s inception held the promise of being the font of all human knowledge. But as it matured - and once they figured out how to monetize with advertisements - it hasn’t lived up to it’s promise by any stretch. How many times have I typed something into google and the first fifty items on the list are ads and aggregated websites? Or sites where you are stumped as to why it was a match (hidden text?) Then there’s paywalls, etc. > > Geez, it’s crap CRAP! Oh, this. Yes, this. I do agree. I miss the fan pages of obscure people set up by real aficionados and such. There is so much potential to _share_ our knowledge and passion, and now it’s a lot of crap. For the most part. ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/19 "2012-09-19T13:42:28Z")
Tons and tons (and tons) of relevant archaeological literature can only be found in physical form. IME, studying any area or period or question in any real depth is impossible using only the 'net, although the situation gets better all the time - save for the masses of obscure archaeological reports that will never get digitized. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/20 "2012-09-19T14:54:46Z")
I can’t order Liberty of London’s lavender & eucalyptus soap online, not for love or money. It’s been making me sad for almost ten years. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121.md?page=2)