# 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:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/61 "2012-09-22T06:54:21Z")
I’ll tell y’all what the fucking shit I didn’t find on the Internet. I didn’t find any goddamn trace of a hint of a clue of a mention what route the space shuttle was going to fly from Los Angeles to Sacramento and back today. Neither in the week before the event nor afterward today. (Finding out beforehand would have been nice.) Flying from LA to Sacto, did it fly over the San Joaquin Valley? Did it fly over (or near) Bakersfield? Tehachapi? Fresno? Modesto? Stockton? Livermore/Dublin area? Or did it just, you know, magically teleport itself all that way without actually passing over points in between? And heading back south, did it fly over San Jose? Santa Cruz? San Luis Obispo? Santa Maria? Santa Barbara? (I did find a few news reports suggesting, ahead of time, that it _might_ fly over San Jose, Santa Cruz, and/or Monterey.) Was this some super-secret classified information? Was it a top-god-damn-secret? Was there fear of surface-to-air missiles in Lodi? Or did it simply occur to absolutely NOBODY at NASA nor to any reporters that there are, like, people in those areas who would have like to stick their heads out their windows for a peek too? Did not a single shit-for-brains reporter ANYWHERE think to ask? Where were the editors of all the local papers in those towns? (Or did it fly over the east side of the Sierras, where there really is almost nobody?) All I can find (and I’ve been poking around some) are story after story listing all the landmarks in LA, Sacto, and Bay Area that it buzzed around, and not a single damn hint that it might have actually traversed any points in between. Maybe the whole Central Valley did fall into the ocean after all. Are there any SDMB Dopers in any of those forgotten lands who know? Or who maybe even saw the damn phantom? ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/62 "2012-09-22T15:28:52Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Technetium stars. Beyond the bare fact that they exist, virtually nothing. Hasn’t _anyone_ done any papers on these? 😕 Google: Technetium star: “About 512,000 results” Google Scholar (actual scientific papers): Technetium star: “About 3,570 results” A lot of the Google Scholar stuff will be paywalled, of course, but even on the first page, several things are not. There is no guarantee, of course, that any of this hits will have whatever _particular_ information about technetium stars that you are hoping for, but, if not, that is the fault of science for not doing the research yet (or just not having solved some problem), not the fault of the internet. ---
**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 22, 2012, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/63 "2012-09-22T16:24:22Z")
> [@August\_West](#): > > Was his name Donald Eugene Ivens? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/64 "2012-09-22T22:19:12Z")
> [@Neidhart](#): > > 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. It’s pretty hit or miss to find anything that was around before the age of the Internet. ---
**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 23, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/65 "2012-09-23T18:27:08Z")
> [@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. The schools themselves usually do keep them, but of course they’re not on the Internet. As someone just said, more and more of them are being scanned and posted, but I’ve found a lot ones that used to be made freely available for general historical interest are now behind paywalls. Mind you, they aren’t terribly high paywalls, but still. While it may not be exactly what you are looking for, you may enjoy this [blog post](http://wanderinginla.blogspot.com/2010/11/winter-1923-los-angeles-high-school.html) I did on the Winter 1923 Semi-Annual of Los Angeles High School. This has turned out to be the most popular post in the blog based on pageviews, which surprises me because I’ve always thought this to be one of my odd little geeky interests that few others share. ---
**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 27, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121/66 "2012-09-27T21:18:26Z")
I’ve never been able to find the text of repealed laws. Government websites don’t have them, FindLaw doesn’t have them; neither are they available in Lexis, to which I have access through my school. Once, when curious about the [Volstead Act](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volstead_Act), the only way I could obtain its full text was to visit the government documents repository at UCLA. I’ve always been interested in the history of alcohol prohibition, and by extension, in the prohibition of the unauthorized use of other drugs as well. Besides the federal law, I’d also be interested in reading the various state laws on the subject, but those are all repealed as well and hence unavailable. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-not-find-on-the-internet/635121.md?page=3)