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|name = Rotten.com
|Picture = Rotten.png
|Maker = Soylent
|Type = Shock site
|Release date = 1997
|Quote = the snapshot of '''rotten.com''', before closing down.
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'''Rotten.com''' was a [[shock site]], which collects pictures of dead people, disgusting diseases, deformed bodies, and more, from different places on the Internet.


The website was first registered in 1996, and was first hosted by a person "Soylent", he made a program that can easily identify unregistered internet domain names, only consisting of one word on a dictionary entry, after searching, he found a word ''Rotten'' was one of the unclaimed words on the domain, so he went on to register on the website with ''Rotten.com'', this is where it starts off, Rotten.com has based itself as an online free speech, in a time, when censorship rules had begun to restrict internet access from many people.


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The site receives a lot of popularity, and has a lot of huge spikes for a couple of months, due to the post of medical personnel recovering Princess Diana's body from a car accident, after a while, the picture was revealed to be fake, The website was also one of the first websites to publish images of the September 11th jumpers from the Twin Towers, under the title 'Swan Dive'.
[[File:Rotten.png|thumb|220x220px|The home page of '''rotten.com''', the writing says it all...]]
'''Rotten.com''' is a [[shock site]] similar to [[Offended]] and [[The Pain Series]], which collects pictures of dead people, disgusting diseases, deformed bodies, and more, from different places on the Internet. It contains extremely graphic images. The website has been recognized as one of the most sick, gruesome, and perverted websites out there, as it contains such a large library of shocking images. In September 2017, the site was temporarily down. As of recent, it is back up.


They are also known for the images from the infamous page of [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]] known as [[Offended]] and [[The Pain Series]], which is a montage of vulgar content including medical photographs, animal cruelty, gruesome and surrealistically abhorrent images, and pornographic artworks.
== Links ==
== Links ==
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten.com ''(Wikipedia Page)''
*'''Special thanks to Wikipedia for informations''': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten.com  
<u>NOTE</u>: The following [[shock site]] contains extremely graphic images!
<u>NOTE</u>: The following [[shock site]] contains extremely graphic images!
* <s>rotten.com</s>
** '''Now Back up:''' nccasymposium.bournemouth.ac.uk/2005/madfx/ZENIOU_html/Sites/rotten_com%20This%20is%20rotten%20dot%20com.htm
* web.archive.org/web/20040113023130/rotten.com/
* web.archive.org/web/20040113023130/rotten.com/
 
* '''Now Back up''': nccasymposium.bournemouth.ac.uk/2005/madfx/ZENIOU_html/Sites/rotten_com%20This%20is%20rotten%20dot%20com.htm
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Revision as of 08:00, 12 January 2021

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Rotten.com was a shock site, which collects pictures of dead people, disgusting diseases, deformed bodies, and more, from different places on the Internet.

The website was first registered in 1996, and was first hosted by a person "Soylent", he made a program that can easily identify unregistered internet domain names, only consisting of one word on a dictionary entry, after searching, he found a word Rotten was one of the unclaimed words on the domain, so he went on to register on the website with Rotten.com, this is where it starts off, Rotten.com has based itself as an online free speech, in a time, when censorship rules had begun to restrict internet access from many people.

The site receives a lot of popularity, and has a lot of huge spikes for a couple of months, due to the post of medical personnel recovering Princess Diana's body from a car accident, after a while, the picture was revealed to be fake, The website was also one of the first websites to publish images of the September 11th jumpers from the Twin Towers, under the title 'Swan Dive'.

They are also known for the images from the infamous page of Encyclopedia Dramatica known as Offended and The Pain Series, which is a montage of vulgar content including medical photographs, animal cruelty, gruesome and surrealistically abhorrent images, and pornographic artworks.

Links

NOTE: The following shock site contains extremely graphic images!

  • web.archive.org/web/20040113023130/rotten.com/
  • Now Back up: nccasymposium.bournemouth.ac.uk/2005/madfx/ZENIOU_html/Sites/rotten_com%20This%20is%20rotten%20dot%20com.htm


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