What can you not find on the internet?

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.

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.

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.

Go to the American Science & Surplus website. They have lab equipment and robot parts. What more can you ask for?

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.

I once watched a video showing cricketers including David Boon batting to the tune of Eurythmics song Missionary Man.

I am unable to locate it still.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

Several old local shows have only scant mention online and no footage that I’ve found.

Alsothis.

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.

Edgar Winter, from the album Not a Kid Anymore Available for $0.99 (For the track, not the whole album) from iTunes.

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.

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.

Bet I know what its last line is/would be.

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.

Was his name Donald Eugene Ivens?