# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/41 "2012-09-20T00:49:45Z")
You’d be surprised. I happened to look up an old acquaintance today who’s an actress/model. She made several portfolio-type short films about a decade ago, none of which are viewable anywhere online. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/42 "2012-09-20T01:29:23Z")
Film by the Nazis of the Valkyrie plotters being hanged with piano wire. Albert Speer wrote of Hitler and the gang watching it with merriment (although Speer spoke mainly in self-serving lies) Herman Goering’s home movies of himself wearing only a fox tail on a string around his waist, dancing with young women. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/43 "2012-09-20T01:30:32Z")
I wish I could write to all those companies that advertised in the back of my Popular Mechanics magazines from the 40sand 50s. Fireworks supplies, A free Drafting Studio when you sign up for lessons, a “remarkable pocket ham radio” or a “pocket 3-in-one multi-weld-drill tool”, AND the Benson Gyrocopter! Yes, a working helicopter made from aluminum tubing and steel scraps in your backyard. Yeah, I know that most of the companies have gone under long ago. But I wish I could find the “Ed and Alfred’s Discount Handyman Emporium” website, and order some of those old gems. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/44 "2012-09-20T01:39:56Z")
> [@](#): > > But I wish I could find the “Ed and Alfred’s Discount Handyman Emporium” website Go to the American Science & Surplus website. They have lab equipment and robot parts. What more can you ask for? ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/45 "2012-09-21T01:49:32Z")
Thanks to Yahoo, I have now full explanation on the formation of Babby’s. ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/46 "2012-09-21T02:05:49Z")
> [@Jamicat](#): > > Thanks to Yahoo, I have now full explanation on the formation of Babby’s. You figured out how girl get pragnent? I’ve been wondering about that. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/47 "2012-09-21T03:03:32Z")
I once watched a video showing cricketers including [David Boon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Boon) batting to the tune of Eurythmics song [Missionary Man](http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=0-Q3cp3cp88&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D0-Q3cp3cp88). I am unable to locate it still. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/48 "2012-09-21T04:19:41Z")
I cannot find actual video of the Canadian variety show “Live It Up!” from the 1970s, featuring the beautiful and unattainable Sharon Seto, one of my Hopeless Teenage Crushes. I _have_ found an episode list, though. ---
**Author:** ![bldysabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bldysabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bldysabba)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/49 "2012-09-21T06:26:01Z")
The background score for Spidermand and his amazing friends. The most beautiful photograph in the world(Or maybe just my adolescence). Of Lakshmi Menon modeling for Numero Uno Jeans. ---
**Author:** ![Bpelta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Bpelta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bpelta)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/50 "2012-09-21T07:45:51Z")
There are a bunch of things I can’t find on the Internet, but most interesting to me are the Bush/Reagan primary debates…There are a few snippets here and there, but even the Reagan Library and CSPANVIDEO apparently haven’t posted any full primary debates from “The Great Communicator.” ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/51 "2012-09-21T09:37:26Z")
Historic Metrobus maps and/or schedules. If you were curious about when buses first started serving Tyson’s Corner and whether they ran more frequently back in the '70s, you’re just out of luck. Also shopping-mall directories from before 1998 or so. If you’re curious about what was in a certain space at Fair Oaks Mall in 1983, you won’t find it. Interior photos of Tyson’s Corner Center from the 70s and 80s. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/52 "2012-09-21T10:37:28Z")
Also, old high-school yearbooks. I think it would be fun to go through the yearbooks of a school undergoing racial transition (say Anacostia High in Washington DC from 1954-1969), look at all the teams/clubs/other organizations and see which ones integrated first, which one stayed all-white the longest, which was the first to turn majority-black or all-black and which was the last to have any white members. But even public libraries don’t keep HS yearbooks. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/53 "2012-09-21T11:19:25Z")
Several old local shows have only scant mention online and no footage that I’ve found. Also[this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=650069). ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/54 "2012-09-21T15:27:08Z")
> [@Neidhart](#): > > Also, old high-school yearbooks. I think it would be fun to go through the yearbooks of a school undergoing racial transition (say Anacostia High in Washington DC from 1954-1969), look at all the teams/clubs/other organizations and see which ones integrated first, which one stayed all-white the longest, which was the first to turn majority-black or all-black and which was the last to have any white members. But even public libraries don’t keep HS yearbooks. More and more HS yearbooks are being scanned and posted online, including all from my school going back 75 years or more. I think they are being done by commercial outfits, not hobbyists with single-page scanners. Maybe yours are just a little behind. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/55 "2012-09-21T18:26:35Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > \*a downloadable version of ‘Way Down South’, from the movie, ‘My Cousin Vinny’, by somebody and the Fabulous Thunderbirds, I think. Really wanted it to add to a mixed CD I was making, could not find it anywhere. Edgar Winter, from the album _[Not a Kid Anymore](http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=6545153)_ Available for $0.99 (For the track, not the whole album) from iTunes. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/56 "2012-09-21T23:26:38Z")
Can’t find the episode I love best from “The Carol Burnett Show” that featured Harvey and Tim as British officers on an island and one gets promoted. Can’t find (hardly) any information about Liberty Homes kits from the late 40’s like the one I live in. Can’t find obituaries from the newspaper for the years I need. Can’t find any reference to a plastic tub toy I had as a child. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/57 "2012-09-22T00:10:03Z")
Technetium stars. Beyond the bare fact that they exist, virtually nothing. Hasn’t _anyone_ done any papers on these? A children’s story I read once about some kids going on a cross-country journey inside a mechanical elephant. Also, from the early to mid 60s, a two-part Mickey Mouse comic book story where Mickey impersonated (or actually was?) a costumed superhero. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/58 "2012-09-22T00:38:58Z")
> [@Mississippienne](#): > > Smut fanfiction starring Ariel from The Little Mermaid and Charlie the Starkist Tuna mascot. Bet I know what its last line is/would be. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/59 "2012-09-22T00:44:04Z")
I can’t find a comprehensive online museum of historic United States currency. For some years in the eraly 2000s there was one such website that was fantastic, maintained by one Dr. Dawn Banks. From 1863 onward, when the federal government began to standardize the appearance of paper money, her website had beautiful illustrations of nearly every kind and denomination. You’d click on the thumbnail and get to see a beautiful screen-filling image showing every detail. Many different series, or years, of the notes were illustrated. I couldn’t tell you how much time I wasted looking at that stuff; I can’t help being fascinated by the history of it all, or by the fact that back in the day Chase and Bank Of America (or their antecedents) could issue their own notes that circulated as money, and that for a couple of decades this kind of money circulated alongside the Federal Reserve Notes we still use today. But however much time I might have wasted, it can’t have been as much as the webmaster believed she was wasting, because one day I went to the URL where she had put up the announcement to the effect that she couldn’t afford the time and effort to maintain the website anymore – and goodbye. I can appreciate her point, but I do wish she could have found someone else who would have been willing to take over. Anything I can find out there now has only a very few samples on display, without very good descriptions, and usually not much bigger than thumbnails. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/60 "2012-09-22T02:53:27Z")
> [@Student\_Driver](#): > > 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. Was his name Donald Eugene Ivens? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121.md?page=4)