Rotten.com

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Rotten.com
Snapshot of rotten.com, before closing down.
About This Screamer
Maker	Soylent
Type	Shock site
Release date	1996

Rotten.com was a shock site that collected real pictures of dead people, disgusting diseases, deformed bodies, and more. After a long period of operation, the site is now closed. Rotten.com was one of the first shock sites ever created on the Internet. Pictures were largely submitted by the site's userbase.

PenisBird

PenisBird, also known as "The Incident With The Bird" is a shock image hosted on Rotten.com and Encyclopedia Dramatica. The image displays a close-up picture of a naked man standing in the middle of a concrete parking lot with a Scarlet Macaw on the man's erect penis. The image became a trolling image and shock image similar to Goatse and got spammed on Slashdot.

There is an edited version of this GIF showing the bird ejaculating on the man's penis and semen discharging from it. This was featured on Offended and other shock sites. There is also a ASCII art version of this picture.

History

The website was first registered in 1996, and was hosted by a person named "Soylent". He made a program that could easily identify unregistered internet domain names consisting of a single dictionary word. After some searching, he found the word Rotten was one of these unclaimed names, so he later went on to register Rotten.com. Rotten.com postured itself as an online free speech platform, in a time where Internet censorship laws and regulations had begun to restrict access to material online.

The site received a lot of attention and coverage following an incident in which the site posted supposed images of medical personnel recovering Princess Diana's body from her fatal car accident. This picture was eventually revealed to be fake. The website was also one of the first websites to publish images of jumpers from the September 11 terrorist attack, under the title 'Swan Dive'.

The Rotten Library

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

Link

• Wikipedia Page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten.com

NOTE: The following shock site contains extremely graphic images!

• web.archive.org/web/20040113023130/rotten.com
• PenisBird: web.archive.org/web/19991002221121/smoke.rotten.com/bird

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