Rotten.com

Rotten.com was a shock site, which collects real pictures of dead people, disgusting diseases, deformed bodies, and more, After a long closure, the site has been closed, this is the first shock site ever created on the internet, most of the pictures are sent by many people, asked in the question

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 later went on to register 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, resulting in 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 used from the infamous article 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.

Infamous Images from Rotten.com

 * PenisBird, a first picture that features a Bird, the image depicts a Scarlet Macaw standing on a man's penis, there is an animation version of this image, where the bird is animated to make it look like he was ejaculating on man's penis.
 * Helicopter.jpg, the picture depicts a man with his head completely open, the name implies that the man dies from the helicopter accident, although it doesn't almost resemble someone's death on the helicopter, it was likely to be a shotgun, the release date of this image remains uncertain, the image is also featured on Ebaumsworld.

Frequently Asked Questions

 *  Motorcycle.jpg  is a very gruesome picture that was particularly used on every gore sites, including Encyclopedia Dramatica, and more, the owner got received tons of email after this, for being the most disconcerting things people have ever seen, on his "Frequently Asked Questions" page, the owner answers this question, and describes the whole content of the shocking image, the owner asks that it was more likely to be attempted shotgun suicide, the man surprisingly lived after finish recovering, the attorney wrote a message that the owner demanding to take the picture down, but it was unable to provide enough details for us to comply with his request.

They also have a merchandise site that includes T-Shirts, mugs, mousemats, stickers, magnets, as well as their strange Dvds, mentioned on the FAQ page.

The Rotten Library
The Rotten Library was created as an encyclopedia to supplement the website. The Library contained hundreds of articles under 17 different headings, including culture, art, medicine, crime, travel, and the occult. Articles contained detailed research, timelines, and occasionally included previously-unseen images of various well-known events.

The site also has a Library page, which is an encyclopedia that supplements the website, the website consists of hundreds of article, about culture, art, crime, and more, the website doesn't contain gruesome images.

Reference
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 * Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten.com
 * web.archive.org/web/20040113023130/rotten.com/