Awwww. Nobody ever remembers the
other image "Giver" on goatse.cx (hint: it was bad shoop of a fella who would probably still enjoy buggery with Mr. Goatse).
Though, fans of oldskool shock images - before
RULES 1 AND 2 OF THE INTERNET, BEYOTCH and before images of insurgents headshotted with M82 Barrett became dime a dozen - are ERRYWHERE, because in IL-2 Sturmovik 1946 you can select a seemingly innocent pin-up style nose art for some American planes, complete with the also seemingly innocent text "Tub Girl".
For the record, my favourite shock image is still the "Swedish Bottle Holder" (I'll leave to your imagination what is pictured therein, though it should not be that hard to guess unless it's your first day on the Internet) because at the time, it actually made me laugh (being jaded enough not to be actually
shocked of anything short of a sick frak cutting his private parts off and JPG BECAUSE IT DID HAPPEN).
Though best prize for best trolling in combination with shock content goes to one of the websites which back in the day when it was still fresh did actually contain the (in)famous clip mrhands.mpg - the catch was the website would also (under certain circumstances) start endlessly opening new e-mail messages in your default e-mail program titled "Application" and addressed to GLAAD, and played on endless repeat a maximum-volume sound clip shouting "Hey guys, I'm watching at gay porn!". (So how was this hypothetical person that sent the hypothetical link to his hypothetical friend supposed to frakking know that the site used a unpatched vulnerability in IE, because said hypothetical person had
of course went to the site using Firefox with Java & Javascript disabled because said hypothetical person knew already that going to a suspicious website with IE is just asking for it?)
Apropos, the other day I found the current online address of NetBoy (and promptly forget it), one of the first online-only comics of which I have many fond memories. Sadly, the archive, while containing many classic strips (such as the one where Doom II ends up as a autopsy tutorial in a hospital) lacked
the definitive strip which is very much related. So, I will transcribe it to the best of my ability. Basically, in every four frames there was NetBoy (a crude stick figure) sitting in front of the computer, and in the header of each frame there was the address of a newsgroup (remember, this is 1994 we're talking about) and in the speech bubble, NetBoy's reaction to that.
STAGES OF INTERNET USE
Day 1: alt.sex "Ohhh."
Day 2: alt.sex.bondage "Ahem."
Day 3: alt.sex.bondage.hamsters.duct-tape "Ugh."
Day 4: alt.sex.bondage.hamsters.duct-tape.lorne-greene.battlestar-galactica "I gotta stop this."