1. The Dancing Baby (Original Website)
Before memes were memes, there was the “Dancing Baby” animation—a janky 3D render of a baby doing a looped dance. It went viral via email chains in the late ’90s. You can find re-uploads, but the original site and code? Gone.
2. Heaven’s Gate Exit Video
The Heaven’s Gate cult left behind chilling videos and a full website that is still technically online, but some of the more disturbing or raw content—like the original “exit interviews”—has been scrubbed or archived deep beyond reach.
3. The “Hamster Dance” Original Page
One of the first examples of viral music loops on the web, the “Hamster Dance” site featured rows of animated hamsters dancing to a sped-up song. Modern versions exist, but the quirky, poorly designed original is offline.
4. Zombo.com (Fully Functional Version)
“You can do anything at Zombo.com!” This bizarre Flash-based site greeted you with over-the-top voiceovers and spinning graphics. With Flash officially killed, the original Zombo.com is defunct, though it lives on in meme memory.
5. Lonelygirl15
The YouTube vlogs of Bree—a teenage girl who turned out to be part of an elaborate scripted drama—once captivated millions. The videos are still partially available, but the full scope of her channel and community are now fractured across time.
6. Bert Is Evil Archive
This dark humor site superimposed Sesame Street’s Bert into infamous historical images. It became so viral it got a photo of Bert with Osama bin Laden picked up by real news. The full archive was taken down amid legal threats from Sesame Workshop.
7. The Original “End of the World” Flash Video
“OK, so here’s the Earth…chillin’.” This iconic Flash animation captured the absurd political chaos of the early 2000s with charm. The original hosting on AlbinoBlackSheep is no longer functional due to the end of Flash.
8. Mr. Pregnant’s YouTube Channel
An early YouTube personality who would do things like glue eggs to his head or eat lotion on camera. His channel was removed, and re-uploads rarely capture the full weirdness or shock factor of the original uploads.
9. LiveLeak’s Archive
LiveLeak was the go-to place for raw, uncensored footage—from war zones to weird mechanical fails. The site shut down in 2021, and most of its content is not archived anywhere due to its nature.
10. The Original “You Are An Idiot” Site
It seemed like a harmless, silly Flash site—until it looped your screen with popups and endless “you are an idiot” chants. It was more prank than content, and totally unreachable in the post-Flash world.
11. That Creepy SpongeBob “Bootleg Episode” Creepypasta
The infamous “Squidward’s Suicide” creepypasta claimed a secret SpongeBob episode existed. The story lives on, but the original, highly detailed fan-made video is nearly impossible to find now.
12. Justin.tv
Before Twitch became the juggernaut it is today, Justin.tv was home to the weirdest live streams imaginable—from 24/7 surveillance cams to bootleg anime. Much of its content was never backed up.
13. “Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared” Pilot Website
The original site for this surreal puppet series included hidden ARG elements and cryptic imagery that were later removed or lost after the creators moved to YouTube and mainstream distribution.
14. Yahoo! GeoCities Pages
Millions of personal and fan pages from the early 2000s were wiped out when Yahoo shut down GeoCities in 2009. While Archive.org captured a few, most of them vanished forever.
15. TimeCube
A notorious conspiracy theory website claiming to expose the “truth” about the four simultaneous days in a single rotation of Earth. The creator’s site was one of the longest-lived examples of web insanity—and it’s gone.
16. Webdriver Torso
A strange YouTube account that uploaded thousands of short videos showing red and blue rectangles with strange beeps. It was later revealed as a YouTube test channel, but many of the originals have vanished.
17. The “Numa Numa” Kid’s Original Upload
Gary Brolsma’s lip-sync to “Dragostea Din Tei” became one of the earliest viral videos. He re-uploaded higher-quality versions, but the original has vanished from its first upload location.
18. YTMND Sites
“You’re the Man Now, Dog!” was a meme factory for absurd GIFs and loops. After the site’s decline, thousands of classic YTMND pages disappeared—some archived, many lost.
19. Flash Games from Newgrounds and Miniclip
Many classic weird games—like “The Classroom,” “Motherload,” and surreal fan-made Mario parodies—are now unplayable due to the death of Flash.
20. The Max Headroom Signal Hijacking
A broadcast intrusion in 1987 showed a man in a Max Headroom mask speaking nonsense. While the event is still online, the complete original hijack footage in highest quality is no longer public.
21. Bonsai Kitten
A satirical site about “growing” kittens in glass jars. It was so convincing and disturbing that it led to FBI investigations. The site was removed, though screenshots still exist.
22. The “404 Research Lab”
A site that documented the weirdest 404 error pages on the internet. Ironically, it itself eventually 404’d and disappeared.
23. AlbinoBlackSheep’s Weirder Content
Known for Flash animations like “The Ultimate Showdown,” ABS also hosted super niche, surreal short films that are now completely missing from the archives.
24. Cicada 3301 Early Puzzle Files
The mysterious internet puzzle that appeared in 2012 had early image and file-based riddles that are now extremely difficult to find, especially with some parts being hosted on now-dead platforms.
25. Mosh-Pit Cam from Woodstock 1999
During the chaos of Woodstock ’99, a live cam showed the mosh pit 24/7. It was weird, sometimes disturbing, and completely lost to time after the festival’s end.
26. “Polybius” Arcade Game Evidence
An urban legend about a mind-controlling arcade game from the 1980s. Every trace of evidence online—from mock screenshots to alleged ROMs—have disappeared or proven to be fakes.
27. Original “Ebaumsworld” Gross-Out Clips
Back when Ebaumsworld was king of shock humor, it hosted tons of “WTF” clips—like people getting knocked out or gross pranks. Many were removed due to copyright or shifting platform norms.
28. The Salad Fingers Forum
David Firth’s cult animation series had a now-defunct community forum that dug deep into fan theories and lore. It’s gone, and even archive attempts are patchy.
29. Scary Maze Game Original Site
The game that made millions of users scream was hosted on a very basic Flash site, now long gone. You can find remakes, but nothing hits like the low-quality, glitchy original.
30. Weird eBay Listings (Like “Haunted Dolls”)
At one point, eBay was full of insanely weird listings—from “possessed clown paintings” to “souls in jars.” eBay cracked down, and now those legendary listings are nothing more than screenshots in Reddit threads.
