The practice of investigating and revealing a target subject’s personal information, such as home address, work information and credit card numbers, without their consent has occurred since the 1990s on Usenet.

George Ouzounian created this homepage under the alias of Maddox in 1997. It became popular in the early 2000s through word of mouth, breaking 100 million visitors in 8 years while never paying for advertising.

This angry looking Himalayan Persian cat rose to internet fame after he was featured on the The Daily What last month.

This creepypasta story was inspired by a custom-designed ride for the computer simulation game Roller Coaster Tycoon 2.

Just weeks after members of entertainment site the Chive found Dave On Wheels, the blog of a young man with cerebral palsy, he mysteriously died. A blogger then revealed David Rose never existed.