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My recent mess trying to look up an old shipwreck find online
I got really into this local story about a colonial-era shipwreck, but when I went to find the official dig notes, the museum's website was a jumbled mess of PDFs with no search function. I spent hours clicking through folders with vague names like 'Site A 1998' and gave up after finding nothing clear. It seems crazy that such cool info is locked away in a digital closet. How do you guys track down details on finds without losing your mind?
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rayb827mo ago
Those obscure hobbyist forums are WEIRD treasure troves for this stuff.
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the_brooke7mo ago
What’s the weirdest thing you’ve dug up there?
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joseph_lewis677mo ago
Ever find something that makes you question the whole internet? I was deep in some old forum archive and found a thread where people were swapping stories about lost USB drives they found. One guy described finding a drive with nothing on it but corrupted files and a single text document that just said "you weren't supposed to see this." He managed to recover a short video clip of what looked like an empty room with a flickering light. That stuff sticks with you. What about you, find anything truly off putting?
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