Goatse

Site's image
Goatse , is a shock site created in 1999. it was made by Kirk Johnson.

The website which also displays the image hello.jpg, it shows a man stretching out his anus with his two hands to the length of his fist. This image was originally named gap3.jpg, and originally came out from an archive of several other pictures of the man stretching out his anus using several different methods, named gap.zip.

In 2004, the owner of the website was eventually taken to court, and the website got suspended. The man in the picture was later identified as Kirk Johnson, a gay man in his late 40s who actively posts pictures and videos of himself on pornographic websites, under his username is KirkJ. the domain name was suspended by the Christmas Island Internet Administration for Acceptable Use Policy violations in response to a complaint, but many mirrors of the site are still available, remaining on the display on many other websites. The Christmas Island resident filed the complaint that resulted in the suspension of the domain name.

History
The website was then put back, after a new owner purchased the website for 8,000 euros in 2008, and is now planning to be a subdomain service on which you can host your own website. It now plans for its own e-mail system, named, Goatse Mail, claiming to be launched in early December 2012. However, the e-mail system has not been launched since.

There was also being plans for a cryptocurrency from Bitcoin called Goatse Coin, but there doesn't seem to be an any progress. Some viewers also claimed that before the hello.jpg image was shown, there were some other pornographic images shown on the site, such as a picture of a woman doing sexual acts with a goat. However, no one has been able to confirm this statement's validity.

Popular Culture
In 2015: In Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood, hackers hacked an electronic billboard to display the goatse image.

Mirrors
There are few mirrors to the website such as goatse.info and goatse.ru. The image has also been displayed on happypuppies.net, another infamous site for its disturbing imagery. Some versions of Last Measure will show the Goatse image that also contained malicious scripts that designed to harm your computer.

Some of this content is called the infamous shock pages from Encyclopedia Dramatica including: Offended and The Pain Series, are contained extremely shock images.