[HN Gopher] The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell (2002)
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The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell (2002)
Author : Daub
Score : 327 points
Date : 2024-02-13 09:41 UTC (13 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.entrances2hell.co.uk)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.entrances2hell.co.uk)
| Daub wrote:
| An old site, but with a good deal of obscure British charm.
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| So random/wacky. A classic example of the lovely "weird
| internet". (That I hope is forever preserved)
| c2xlZXB5Cg1 wrote:
| Frontpage/Dreamweaver vibes
| anta40 wrote:
| https://www.entrances2hell.co.uk/page281.html
|
| How come a piece of tree (or whatever it is) is supposed to be an
| entrace of hell? Hmmm okay. Perhaps I don't get this Brits joke.
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| Random/not so random things and making up stories about them
| with a theme. It's creative.
| PaulRobinson wrote:
| It's the Wessex Variant of the Mornington Crescent rules that
| mean... oh wait, wrong thread...
| KineticLensman wrote:
| No! It's the Malebolge variant!
|
| (sigh)
| Lio wrote:
| Can you even use Malebolge on a Tuesday? That's definitely
| not canon.
| csmattryder wrote:
| It's incredibly convenient for us who commute home from
| Oracle's office in the area.
| Lio wrote:
| I wish I could up vote this comment twice. Larry would be
| proud.
| eigenket wrote:
| The flowers on the right hand side look like daisies and
| probably like 1-2cm across. The whole thing is probably about
| 20cm across. Its probably a mole-hill? It looks vaguely like it
| could be earth displaced from a tunneling devil if you squint a
| bit and go with the 2002 vibe.
| bemusedthrow75 wrote:
| Moles, though. You can't trust 'em.
| mrlonglong wrote:
| Yes indeed, the preferred way to deal with them is to stamp
| on the hills and persuade them to move next door.
| gilleain wrote:
| Why are you so certain that you can recognise an entrance to
| hell when you see one :) ?
| wizerdrobe wrote:
| Must be the Devil, trying to sow seeds of doubt among us.
| petesergeant wrote:
| Well it's only a temporary entrance, and is clearly labelled as
| such. For more information please reread.
| smusamashah wrote:
| > Although it is an extremely exhausting process, his ability
| to swim through soil means that the devil will, on occasion,
| create temporary entrances. These will eventually be filled in
| by the local County Council but they can be a source of harmful
| mantle-gas. This example was named Oilyn by the investigating
| police officers after the former Prime Minister.
| sdflhasjd wrote:
| How old is this site? I'm sure even in 2002 JPEG was a better
| option than GIF
| LeoPanthera wrote:
| I'm sure it's older than that, seeing it again has triggered a
| memory from I'm sure the late 90s.
| autophagian wrote:
| According to the blog of the man who runs it, it was from
| 2002-2005:
| https://misterirvine.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/explain-
| entran...
| bemusedthrow75 wrote:
| _" The poor design is also a way of making the fictional
| compiler (Rae Gates) seem to be lonely, naive, obsessed,
| deluded and out-of-touch. I, the real compiler, am only one
| of these."_
|
| Genius.
| wouterjanl wrote:
| Also from his blog:
|
| << I am a husband and father. The reason I was born was to
| become my daughter's father. I was wise enough to notice
| and appreciate at the time, the slow ecstatic joy my
| child's early years were giving me. So too have her later
| years. I will die happy. >>
|
| Beautiful.
|
| https://misterirvine.wordpress.com/about/
| wconrm wrote:
| see first entry here :
| https://web.archive.org/web/20021001000000*/https://www.entr...
| PaulRobinson wrote:
| > "(c) J H Irvine 2002"
|
| Yes. This is a taste of what the web was like before it became
| shit. And it's the way it should be again.
|
| Weird, quirky, fun, no ad-tech, no trying to hard sell anything.
|
| God, I miss this era.
| bowsamic wrote:
| It still exists you're just missing it
| benj111 wrote:
| Right... But how does one find it.
|
| Does one have to tilt their trolley at every pillar on every
| train platform. Or find a friendly worm type thing to show
| them hidden entrances?
| bowsamic wrote:
| The latter
| mglz wrote:
| It's work and we need to re-establish a true net of
| websites, webrings and all the other forgotten stuff that
| was made obsolete by search engines. Here's my
| contribution:
|
| https://mglz.de/links.html
| bowsamic wrote:
| I'm not sure, I think it's better to keep it private and
| dispense it through closed communities. These things
| don't work unless there is a lot of personal interest
| between each website creator, so just dumping them into a
| big list isn't great. I think the best modern approaches
| I've seen have forums/Discord servers organised around a
| topic, such as making demos or sizecoding, and then
| people sharing their sites and projects within those
| spaces.
| mglz wrote:
| Discord is a walled garden and is not searchable, so
| knowledge posted there is lost very quickly and is super
| hard to discover. Static HTML has its limits, but has
| much better longevity.
| rpastuszak wrote:
| I put together a list of sites/catalogues you might find
| interesting:
| https://untested.sonnet.io/Places+to+Find+Indie+Web+Content
| HeckFeck wrote:
| I've a site like that too, we would appreciate a link:
|
| http://wmw.thran.uk
| mglz wrote:
| And my Axe!
|
| https://mglz.de/links.html
| test1235 wrote:
| are we sharing pages of random links here?
|
| https://industrialnation.co.uk/
| nathell wrote:
| That web still exists. Even though it has been eclipsed by the
| siloized monstrous goos, those independent, quirky, greenfield
| sites are still very much alive.
| yard2010 wrote:
| Much like saying ancient Rome still exist, you just can see
| it through all the gentrification
| wkjagt wrote:
| I love the comparison with gentrification. It's not the
| same though. You can still see the old web untouched, it's
| just almost impossible to find. But if you do find it, you
| don't see the gentrification.
|
| Maybe it's more like Rome being surrounded by hundreds of
| miles of malls, and parking lots, and highways, and those
| highways (and Google Maps) only leading you to those
| parking lots and malls. You'd have to stumble upon a
| backroad that's not on the map to find the old Rome.
| darkwater wrote:
| > it's just almost impossible to find.
|
| Just like it was back then... There was a very steep path
| for the entrance to he^W the Internet, and then it was
| easy to find those places. Now you can access the
| Internet easily but it's harder to find those places.
|
| EDIT: typo
| bbarnett wrote:
| Part of it is, SSL certs. Google downranks, heavily,
| websites without SSL.
|
| Some of these sites will never see SSL, and so they are
| indeed as roads not on a map.
|
| (It isn't relevant how easy or hard ssl and obtaining
| certs are. The reality is, these older, static html sires
| sometimes don't have ssl, and will never have ssl.)
| nuz wrote:
| Gentrification is a poor analogy since the web is not zero
| sum unlike physical space.
|
| Attention is limited though and that has shifted away from
| websites like this so maybe it's gentrification of
| attention
| dazzawazza wrote:
| Feels like saying "Casino's are the gentrification of
| wealth".
|
| Not disagreeing with you. It's just the modern web is a
| trap. A game you will lose, as your attention is abused,
| misdirected and monetized.
| batch12 wrote:
| Sadly, I think we're the only ones that pine for the old
| web.
| coldtea wrote:
| > _Gentrification is a poor analogy since the web is not
| zero sum unlike physical space._
|
| It looks as if it's "not zero sum" because a random user
| can supposedly check out anything on equal footing,
| whether it's Facebook.com or some guy's hobby personal
| website. They're both there and available.
|
| But in reality that's never the case. A person taken at
| random is never equally likely to visit this or that
| (except in the sense: I have 50%-50% chances of winning
| the lottery today: I either win, or I don't). The
| gentrified one's would have way more exposure, be
| promoted as way more essential (socially, and even
| professionally) to be on them, they will have all the
| trappings of fashion, like modern design, mobile client
| apps, and such.
|
| Back in 1999 that wasn't yet the case. At least nowhere
| near to the degree it is today.
|
| This is reflected in viewership numbers of course, where
| a gentrified behemoth might get 99% of the traffic, and
| the rest long tail 1%, despite consisting of billion
| times more websites.
| pmontra wrote:
| OK but... a personal website gets substantially less
| traffic than Facebook but does it get more or less
| traffic than the website owner's profile page on
| Facebook? If that person keeps a blog on the personal
| site and occasionally posts on FB, the website wins. If
| that person posts all the time on Facebook and rarely
| blogs, the FB profile wins.
|
| I do have a website since last century and I stopped
| posting on FB since a few years ago. My website gets
| negligible traffic except scan bots but still more than
| me on FB. If people google me they might find me on FB
| and realize that my page is dead. If they insist they'll
| find my site.
| pftburger wrote:
| You really really don't want to have lived in Ancient Rome.
| Same applies for most nostalgia
| brudgers wrote:
| The empire never ended. --PK Dick.
| NoMoreNicksLeft wrote:
| Finding a path to that still-existing web is like trying to
| casually hike into the fairy realm or something. It's all
| around us and invisible, inaccessible.
| bemusedthrow75 wrote:
| > no trying to hard sell anything
|
| Apparently not even the coffee mug now, which is bitterly
| disappointing.
| shever73 wrote:
| True, although the official safety posters[0] still seem to
| be available: https://www.cafepress.com/e2hp.34051572
|
| [0] https://www.entrances2hell.co.uk/pagesafety.html
| fipar wrote:
| "Don't shout at the devil (not even with good news)."
|
| This is just amazing, thank you (and OP) for the link!
| bemusedthrow75 wrote:
| Ahhh now I want one.
| witcH wrote:
| instantly ordered one for my office. Incredible.
| wkjagt wrote:
| I wonder if it would be possible to filter out the noise of the
| "modern web" by black listing big tech the same way we block
| ads. Might be an interesting project.
| saiya-jin wrote:
| I mean put adblocks into crazy mode, blacklist anything
| related to Google and Meta-crap by default, turn off JS and
| probably CSS too and you are almost there, maybe apart from
| blinking text and weirdly stretched bitmap backgrounds
| jonpurdy wrote:
| Kagi (the search engine) has Small Web*, which (I assume)
| shows only results from the long tail and excludes popular
| sites (they use TinyGem search index for this).
|
| *https://blog.kagi.com/small-web
| wkjagt wrote:
| Oh this looks really nice. Thanks for sharing!
| martinpw wrote:
| Wasn't there a site that showed search results but skipped
| the top N results, so you ended up seeing a lot more
| interesting smaller sites? Can't remember details and a quick
| search (hah) didn't find it. Pretty sure it was linked on HN
| a year or two ago...
|
| Edit - I think this was it, but looks like it needs an
| account: https://millionshort.com/
| 15457345234 wrote:
| > so you ended up seeing a lot more interesting smaller
| sites?
|
| A lot of smaller sites just aren't indexed any more, it's a
| common complaint you read here...
|
| "Smaller site, we don't use adwords, we're getting crawled
| 500x/day which is 40% of our bandwidth, still not indexed
| after 6 months"
| flpm wrote:
| If a search engine were to penalize ads, I bet a lot of those
| old sites would surface. The old web was an "amateur" web,
| people created sites to share content they were excited
| about, not to monetize it (or to allow a platform to monetize
| it). If search engines also make most of their money from
| advertising, they have a big conflict of interest. We need an
| open source search engine owned by a non-profit organization
| following the model of Signal.
| wkjagt wrote:
| > If a search engine were to penalize ads, I bet a lot of
| those old sites would surface.
|
| Maybe using an ad blocker to build a list of "websites that
| serve ads" (in addition to domains those ads are served
| from), and using that list to filter out results from an
| existing search engine API (like Duck Duck Go) would get
| you part of the way. But you'd probably need to search
| really far before you start finding sites that don't serve
| ads.
| sirsinsalot wrote:
| I would use a search engine that only indexed sites that have
| zero ads, tracking or referral links.
|
| Not sure how useful it'd be, but I would use it!
|
| It would probably be like Google circa 1999-2000
| wkjagt wrote:
| I would use that too, for sure! I kind of feel like
| experimenting with this now. I have no idea how doable it
| is to just "start scraping the web" though. uBlock Origin
| is open source, so I guess that could be used to help
| filter out sites that serve ads.
| wconrm wrote:
| I find this CSE quite usefull for finding old websites
| https://www.oldestsearch.com/
| robinsonb5 wrote:
| All you need is a reliable way to detect cookie popups.
| RobotToaster wrote:
| The commercialisation of the internet was a mistake.
| TomMasz wrote:
| I was wondering why the photos looked like so poorly
| compressed.
| ricardo81 wrote:
| Part of the problem is information discovery is dominated by
| big tech, between Google and social platforms.
|
| Mojeek is an alt search engine with an independent index that
| returns this site so obv indexed.
|
| https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=uk+entrances+to+hell
|
| I see another one there for Dutch locations
|
| http://pkazil.free.fr/e2hnl.html
|
| disclaimer, I used to work at Mojeek.
| bragr wrote:
| I'm not sure what point you're trying to make with the search
| results as compared to Google?
| https://www.google.com/search?q=uk+entrances+to+hell
| ricardo81 wrote:
| 90+% of people would use Google to find stuff via search,
| it's useful to have other means. As you can see by their
| results they tend to favour 'fresh' (nee recycled content)
| pages rather than older and original sources.
|
| //added
|
| which is often the case as per comments in this thread with
| people generally feeling the commercial web has gobbled up
| original and niche content. Surely it can only be that way
| because the gateways to the web have made it so.
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| I found a bookmarklet (on HN) that will take you to a random
| "old internet" webpage: https://wiby.me/surprise/
|
| Just pressed it, it sent me to https://holyjoe.net/, a personal
| website of a reverend from 1995, last updated in 2020 based on
| its 'poetry' page.
| npteljes wrote:
| No ad-tech, and 2002? What web were you on? 2002 had popups,
| pop-unders, frantically blinking banners, pages opening many
| other pages when you click on them, search results poisoned
| with transparent or small text, and barely any tech in the
| user's hand to fight these.
|
| The web is, I think, friendlier now than it was in 2000-2005.
| And much, much more useful in general.
| nottorp wrote:
| > The web is, I think, friendlier now than it was in
| 2000-2005
|
| I'd replace "is" with "looks".
| npteljes wrote:
| What makes you say that?
| nottorp wrote:
| All the spying going on in the background every time you
| load a web site.
| npteljes wrote:
| Right, now that really is something that is much more
| aggressive on today's internet.
| _joel wrote:
| The era of ratemypoo . com (I've not checked if this site still
| exists or what, ymmv).
| dajt wrote:
| And web rings to proudly be part of :)
| ckastner wrote:
| I love this. Texts appear both coherent yet utterly random:
|
| > _Satan 's heat-image can sometimes be seen here and it has
| recently been proven that all of the earth's insects were born
| just inside the metal door._
| Daub wrote:
| > ...coherent yet utterly random
|
| Beautifully put!
| wwilim wrote:
| This sounds like Stig facts
| chalst wrote:
| Many do, but some go beyond coherence and tell a story. E.g.,
|
| https://www.entrances2hell.co.uk/page285.html
|
| says
|
| > The Cult of Reversible Death wrote of a moonlight-appointment
| with God (which the devil failed to attend due to prior
| commitments) claiming that it was to have taken place here at
| Puggnac. There is no evidence to prove their claim but the
| local steelworks still shows the event on their coat of arms.
| Puggnac has superbly delicate ductwork and a hydraulics system
| which was designed and built in Yorkshire.
|
| Radom as hell, though, fitting the theme.
| sschueller wrote:
| Here is the "gates to hell" in Zurich, Switzerland:
|
| https://d3qvqlc701gzhm.cloudfront.net/mirror/1c45663482a9521...
|
| https://www.zuerich.com/de/besuchen/sehenswuerdigkeiten/hoel...
| gerjomarty wrote:
| This reminded me of the Hidden London tours, which allow guided
| access to staff-only disused and abandoned parts of the London
| Underground. There's a real excitement in taking a peek behind
| one of these dusty, abandoned-looking doors you walk past every
| day.
| DrBazza wrote:
| Those sort of tours are often listed on
| https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/
| 123pie123 wrote:
| very interesting, thanks - I've been looking for something
| like this
| samstave wrote:
| Haha "things to do in London Today:
| https://i.imgur.com/Qpu7ZKd.png
| trhway wrote:
| > taking a peek behind one of these dusty, abandoned-looking
| doors
|
| back in middle-school in USSR exploring with friends abandoned
| underground fortifications one of the doors that we broke
| through happened to let us into an actually used military
| hardware storage (unfortunately not munitions nor weapons)
| which had its official office and gates with guards/etc. from
| the other side of that hill.
|
| More intentionally though we back then several times visited
| using ventilation pass the large underground military fuel
| depot each time carrying away buckets of fuel for various fun
| childhood fire activities.
| devjam wrote:
| What a gem! And a few more from the HTML source:
| <META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="entrances2hell, entrancestohell,
| entrances to hell, Hell, Canterbury, Kent,">
|
| As well as a style tag missing a closing '>' on the page
| template: </style
| HeckFeck wrote:
| I noticed this too. Would be a safe bet it was hand crafted in
| notepad with no syntax highlighting.
|
| Might just feed it to the W3C validator for kicks.
|
| Update: The validator reported 42 errors before giving up:
| Fatal Error: Cannot recover after last error. Any further
| errors will be ignored. From line 56, column 1; to line
| 56, column 23 Verdana">-<a href="page279.html">This w
| KineticLensman wrote:
| > The validator reported 42 errors before giving up
|
| Giving up? 42! How can you not see this as the sinister
| interference of Beelzebub!
| wkjagt wrote:
| 42 hex in decimal is 66!
| arrowsmith wrote:
| > hand crafted in notepad with no syntax highlighting
|
| Those were the days!
| devjam wrote:
| Save, open FTP/SCP client, copy to webserver, maybe
| poke/restart a service via SSH, back to browser, refresh...
| dammit, error, rinse repeat.
|
| We're certainly spoiled having formatting, linting, tests
| and coverage all run on save these days :-)
| wkjagt wrote:
| When did we stop explicitly welcoming people to websites
| (literally: "welcome to my website!") . The same era that
| "going on the internet" was an actual activity. I miss that.
| It's like we all stopped being excited by the web.
| mathieuh wrote:
| Everyone's a "brand" these days. I get the same kind of
| feeling when I see a bio written in the third person but
| which was clearly written by the person themselves.
| nextlevelwizard wrote:
| Content should speak for it self. Welcoming people to a
| website is same as starting a IM conversation with: "hi!".
| wkjagt wrote:
| Valid point, but there was something charming and innocent
| about "the welcome to my website" that I miss.
| RobotToaster wrote:
| >The same era that "going on the internet" was an actual
| activity. I miss that. I
|
| Now you can never leave.
| clort wrote:
| along these lines, see Portals of London
| https://portalsoflondon.com/
| pk-protect-ai wrote:
| Though these gates are not sinister enough, in my opinion, it
| would be a nice idea to make a game out of it with a plot around
| gate research. It could be fun...
|
| Disclaimer: I am not nostalgic for the internet of the old days,
| especially the times when you had a few websites to access,
| mostly university sites, and you could memorize each and every IP
| address. I actually hate the fact that the major search engines
| (especially Bing and Google) try to deceive me with the URLs I
| don't need. During the times of Altavista and Yahoo, I had the
| regex pipeline to filter their searches; however, this tactic is
| now futile...
| etamponi wrote:
| Can somebody please explain the joke/context? :)
| bradrn wrote:
| https://misterirvine.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/explain-entran...
|
| [Thanks goes to @autophagian who linked this in another
| comment]
| blippage wrote:
| If that's too scary for you, you could always look at "Pylon of
| the Month" https://www.pylonofthemonth.org/
|
| The website was set up by an Englishman, of course, because
| that's what us British do best: quirky and underwhelming.
|
| I heard a fund manager in the energy sector the other day who
| said that PotM was the thing that fascinated listeners most.
|
| Spoiler alert: January's pylon is from Cadiz in Spain, has its
| own Wikipedia page, but the pair featured aren't as tall as the
| Thames crossing pylons.
| sebstefan wrote:
| You promised me underwhelming and I almost had a heart attack
| with January's pylon
|
| Thankfully the 2023 ones were just mundane enough to bring me
| back
| shrikant wrote:
| > quirky and underwhelming
|
| Describes Stonehenge perfectly. Which I suppose could be some
| sort of ancient pylons?
| blippage wrote:
| You might be interested in "Crap Days Out", a book published
| about 1 decade ago. In it you can find out such treats as the
| Dinosaur Museum, which has no dinosaurs, the Pencil Museum,
| which boasts the world's largest pencil, and Teapot Island,
| home to more than 8,000 teapots. Of course Stonehenge appears
| in it.
|
| Here's a review in the Guardian:
| https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2011/aug/21/crap-days-
| out...
|
| "And that's Stonehenge!" I announced. "Is it?" replied Maria.
| "It's a bit small and rubbish, isn't it?" "Yes," I said
| proudly. "It is."
| kitd wrote:
| If you're referring to the Pencil Museum in Keswick, I
| found that fascinating. But that's probably just me tbh ...
| mikhailfranco wrote:
| And also this gem:
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout_Appreciation_Societ...
|
| which got its meme explosion from a calendar of 12 roundabouts,
| here is the latest 2024 edition:
|
| https://dullkev.com/product/roundabouts-of-the-world-2024-ca...
| Cockbrand wrote:
| On the topic of _Appreciation Societies_ , I'd like to add
| the World Bollard Association which has brought me much joy.
|
| https://twitter.com/WorldBollard
|
| As an aside, what's today's preferred alternative Twitter/X
| frontend, now that nitter.net seems to have shut down?
| blippage wrote:
| In London, some bollards have been made out of recycled
| cannons.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxdJrqV0l4c
| ornornor wrote:
| I use twiiit.com (and have a rule in kagi to replace
| twitter.com with twiiit.com in search results)
|
| It uses a random nitter instance each time.
| jasomill wrote:
| Ah yes, the Arc de Triomphe, notable for its location in one
| of the great roundabouts of the world.
|
| Speaking as someone with a predilection for photographing
| fire hydrants and manhole covers, this seems like an entirely
| reasonable perspective.
| samstave wrote:
| Have you seen the "fire hydrants that look like planets"
| blog or whatever it was - it was a few years ago...
|
| https://www.reddit.com/r/firehydrantplanets/ <-- Warning,
| contains Bollards as well.
|
| https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=firehy
| d...
|
| Lots of really cool planet-hydrants posts
| mikhailfranco wrote:
| Ah yes, the Arc de _Triomphe,_ celebrating victory in 1806,
| which turned to tragic defeat by 1812, and invasion by
| 1814, with 500k French dead, and the Russian Tsar marching
| into Paris - presumably inspecting the shiny new Arch of
| _Victory_ LOL. The French invasion of Russia turned into
| the Russian (allied) invasion of France.
|
| The aforesaid roundabout (12 avenues meeting in a neat
| circle, containing some vague gallic-shrug number of
| unmarked lanes) will always be the Place D'Etoile for me,
| never the Place Charles de Gaulle - but that's another long
| story of French arrogance and hubris. I do believe the
| Nazis also paraded around the French Arc de _Triomphe._
| eythian wrote:
| Turns out there's a Dutch equivalent also:
| https://www.hoogspanningsnet.com/
| narag wrote:
| _Spoiler alert: January 's pylon is from Cadiz in Spain_
|
| Thank you for bringing me back. I wish I'd be there now for the
| Carnival.
|
| Those towers are a nice landmark. The photo is great, but it
| lacks perspective of how they connect Cadiz and Puerto Real
| over the bay. A video:
|
| https://www.endesa.com/es/proyectos/todos-los-proyectos/sect...
| xg15 wrote:
| > _The website was set up by an Englishman, of course, because
| that 's what us British do best: quirky and underwhelming._
|
| In a sense I'm disappointed, because it's not as underwhelming
| as I had hoped. There goes my expectation of getting a new
| favourite of these things every month:
| https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Pylon_01...
| _a_a_a_ wrote:
| > because that's what us British do best: quirky and
| underwhelming
|
| Yup. We're a bit crap and we know it. And that's just fine.
| mijoharas wrote:
| Interestingly the "entrances" seem to go from /page272.html to
| /page381.html, and then loop back.
|
| There also appears to be some kind of autocorrecting going on in
| the url path, where /page1381.html will redirect to
| /page381.html, though some will give you multiple choices like
| https://www.entrances2hell.co.uk/page481.html. Seems like a
| strange routing system. Is this common?
| dleavitt wrote:
| Looks like it's "mod_speling" from an old version of apache:
| https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_speling.html
| mstade wrote:
| Not strange, it's hypermedia at work. I wish more APIs (made
| for human consumption or otherwise) would be so considerate.
| See also: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-
| US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/300
| mrlonglong wrote:
| That's hilarious, thanks for a much needed laugh in between my
| job hunting. the Tories here in the UK have made such a big mess
| it's going to be hard to find a job with my disability.
| lambdaone wrote:
| The site even comes with its own music charts:
| https://www.entrances2hell.co.uk/pagechart.html
|
| My favourite track is "Ssssuuuuft".
| petercooper wrote:
| And by virtue of that site listing them, those entrances have
| become Hyperart Thomasson:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperart_Thomasson
| mikhailfranco wrote:
| Not _Heaven_ and _Hell,_ but...
|
| _Blisland,_ Cornwall, England
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blisland
|
| _Helland,_ Cornwall, England
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helland
|
| About 3.2 km (2 miles) apart as the crow flies:
|
| https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/33809465#map=13/50.5278/-...
|
| Or 5.3km driving:
|
| https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=fossgis_osrm...
|
| The main route into Cornwall is the A30, and you see the signs to
| them at successive junctions.
|
| Who knew Bliss and Hell were so close together?
| matsemann wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Norway
|
| the image is quite funny. On the train station it says "Hell,
| Gods - Expedition". (but which in Norwegian actually means
| "goods handling")
| eitland wrote:
| I've been there.
|
| The boot camp for the Norwegian Air Force used to be next to
| that place and had a gate there so many Norwegian air force
| soldiers including me guarded the gate at Hell ar some point.
| N19PEDL2 wrote:
| I would like there to be one for the city of Turin.
| JoeAltmaier wrote:
| How about a useful list, like, of entrances to the platform for
| the Hogwarts Express. They'd look very similar I imagine?
| andybak wrote:
| https://www.entrances2hell.co.uk/page322.html
|
| I know this location well. It leads to this:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Palace_(High_Level)_ra...
|
| which was one of the "abandoned places" I loved to explore in my
| youth. I always suspected there were infernal forces at play in
| that area.
| gtmitchell wrote:
| The maps are hidden gems. Don't want to spoil it, but be sure to
| click the link on a few of them. It's top notch British humor.
| ccppurcell wrote:
| Rare, these days, to laugh out loud at a website. But one of
| those maps got me.
| _joel wrote:
| Being a Mancunian of a certain vintage, these make me homesick.
| tim333 wrote:
| Slightly off topic but I recently discovered to my surprise
| London has a now disused railway for the dead https://www.london-
| walking-tours.co.uk/secret-london/london-...
| redder23 wrote:
| Some of the letters and answers are hilarious.
|
| https://www.entrances2hell.co.uk/pageletters.html
|
| Also this:
|
| https://www.entrances2hell.co.uk/pagesafety.html
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