Things not on the Internet

[Paul in Saudi]

The following things seem to have no presence on the Internet

1. A remarkable number of police departments in the USA. The Lakeside Colorado Police Department is one example. The Berkeley Missouri Police department is another.
2. Anything at all on the 1971 NYPD strike.
3. Anything at all on the card game Kanugo (which has a number of alternate spellings).
4. A photo and floor plan of Type B2 British postwar prefab house.
5. Any image of Theobat Matthew, a man of no little public importance back in the day.
6. Anything on the (now defunct?) Yafflesmead School in Kingsley Green, Sussex. The school is notable for being named “Yafflesmead.”

 

[Sommerswerd]

1. Do most Police Departments worldwide have webpages? If yes, then this is an interesting question. If not, then why is it remarkable to you that some in the US don't?
2. Wikipedia has a footnote on it
3. Never heard of it. Is it popular? In what countries?
4. This seems like the kind of thing that might only be found on microfiche... I mean you're talking about blueprints right?
5. Who is that and why is he important?
6. If it is defunct, then why was it important enough to have a web presence? Or is this whole list a sort of "Why can't the internet be like the Star Trek Enterprise shipboard computer that knows literally everything about everything" kind of question?

 

[Paul in Saudi]

1. I am always working on Wikipedia cites for law enforcement agencies. Seems odd an organization can carry guns and drive cars and stuff and still not have a web presence.
2. Yes, I know about the footnote. I was hoping to start an article, but there is nothing out there.
3. It was popular in the UK in the postwar era.
4. Well they build about a thousand of the things, you would think one or two would be preserved. We have Levitt houses in original condition. These things we never saved.
5. Director of Public Prosecutions for a long time. He is the guy who led the crusade against gay men that caught up Alan Turing. I was trying to write some dialog involving him and was hoping for a photo.
6. I am not sure it is defunct.

 

[warpus]

Nude photographs of Cleopatra
Nude photographs of Genghis Khan
Nude photographs of Archimedes

 

[Paul in Saudi]

Supposedly any image of Marco Polo eating the pasta he supposedly brought to Italy. But I have never really looked.

 

[warpus]

I think the list of things not on the internet may be infinite in length.

This is going to be the longest thread ever.

 

[Browd]

But once posted here, they are on the internet.

 

[Sommerswerd]

The other day I was looking for a video clip of a scene from the movie/miniseries "The Temptations" where two aging washed up doo-wop singers are trying to resurrect their careers by pitching themselves as a "Country-and-Western Rappers." I was going to post it on the "Bro-Country" thread in our OT forum... Alas... I could find no clip.

So its still not on the internet despite being mentioned in this thread...so there

 

[Timsup2nothin]

The following things seem to have no presence on the Internet

1. A remarkable number of police departments in the USA. The Lakeside Colorado Police Department is one example. The Berkeley Missouri Police department is another.
2. Anything at all on the 1971 NYPD strike.
3. Anything at all on the card game Kanugo (which has a number of alternate spellings).
4. A photo and floor plan of Type B2 British postwar prefab house.
5. Any image of Theobat Matthew, a man of no little public importance back in the day.
6. Anything on the (now defunct?) Yafflesmead School in Kingsley Green, Sussex. The school is notable for being named “Yafflesmead.”

I have found that I remember lots of stuff that came and went before the permanent memory of the internet became available that no one has bothered to move into it. Some of that stuff is actually fairly notable events. That's why I am always amused in discussions about the past, because there will inevitably be some gen X knucklehead to opine that if it can't be cited it didn't happen...because if it had really happened surely someone would have blogged about it, right?

 

[Borachio]

Yup. There's loads of stuff not on the Internet. I always find it frustrating to google search for something and come up with nothing remotely relevant.

The last time I did this I was looking for the tune to a pre-WW2 song by Dorothy Ward. It simply wasn't available. There was, though, a reference to the song in some internet forum by some guy saying "does anyone know how this tune went?" Apparently nobody did.

Still, there's loads of stuff which is on the Internet. And I doubt I'll find the time to read it all.

 

[Commodore]

2. Anything at all on the 1971 NYPD strike.

How well did you research all the things on your list? Just typing in "1971 NYPD strike" in Google yields 309,000 results with the entire first page being results related to the strike.

 

[Borachio]

Actually, I really like the Internet.

Imagine a world with no internet, and you casually want to find something out, what are you going to do?

I don't have to imagine. I used to have to go the library. It was a real pain. And often enough you couldn't find out what you wanted without spending an enormous amount of time searching through catalogues and card indexes. Of course, I could have just asked a librarian. But... really? Let's be realistic here.

 

[The_J]

What about "women" ^^?


When I assume that something is not on the internet, then normally because I was searching something work related, and just nobody has taken a look at that stuff and it's just not existent.

Oh, wait, my itsy bitsy tiny home village probably doesn't have much of its stuff on the internet. But then again, nobody cares about that.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Actually, I really like the Internet.

Imagine a world with no internet, and you casually want to find something out, what are you going to do?

I don't have to imagine. I used to have to go the library. It was a real pain. And often enough you couldn't find out what you wanted without spending an enormous amount of time searching through catalogues and card indexes. Of course, I could have just asked a librarian. But... really? Let's be realistic here.

The librarian would have guided you to the microfiche files of old newspapers. If you thought searching catalogs and card indexes was tedious it's probably best that you never asked.

 

[Borachio]

Ah yes. Microfiche. I remember that thing. And no, I never used it. But I knew a man who did. He was never quite the same afterwards.

 

[dutchfire]

But once posted here, they are on the internet.

And this is how people will feel about it

 

[warpus]

But once posted here, they are on the internet.

Still waiting for someone to post those Cleopatra pics.

 

[Borachio]

Link to video.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

That's great
I meant the cartoon

 

[Gori the Grey]

Hey, I used microfiche as recently as just three weeks ago!

For something that wasn't on the internet.

A article on the poetry of Sir Thomas Wyatt from a long defunct journal that nobody would bother to scan. But it was a great article.

Funny thing. That article had a second-hand reference to an obscure psychological study. My guess was that, in the day that the article was written, the author couldn't easily get his hands on the journal in which the psychological study appeared, so he relied on a second-hand summary of it that was available to him.

Guess where I was able to find that obscure psychological study?

Spoiler :

On the internet

Crazy world we live in.