When the website is opened, a girl with pink hair speaks. She says, "Please go ahead after killing me!" within a loud, high-pitched voice. If the player clicks against her, she dies through a violent way. Then, she magically grows back into her form. Her blood pool becomes in the shape of a dolphin which matches with the name for the website.
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==Music==
{{Infobox Game
[[File:vinyl dolphin girl.jpg|thumb|250px|A CD vinyl for ''Goodbye to the Dolphin's Dream'' found from a record store.]]
|title = Internet Explorer.exe
[[File:vinyl dolphin girl album.png|thumb|250px|A high quality, cover art for ''Goodbye to the Dolphin's Dream''.]]
|image = <gallery>Internet Explorer icon.png
The music is meant to be deliberately loud, high-pitched, distorted, or metallic as part of
|maker = MattTheGameMaker
the site’s ARG; this reflects the artist's style of experimental, [[wikipedia:breakcore|breakcore]]-like music (or just say, [[wikipedia:Aphex Twin|Aphex Twin]]). Here is the track listing of the music with the English translations on the right:
|type = [[Creepypasta]] "exe" [[game]]
|date = August 2nd, 2015
|imagecaption = An icon design for ''Internet Explorer.exe''.
|platform = [[GameJolt|Game Jolt]]
}}
'''Internet Explorer.exe''' was the first [[screamer]] [[game]] in the form of a [[shock site]] created and published by MattTheGameMaker on [[GameJolt|Game Jolt]] in 2015.
The game opens to an ''[[wikipedia:Internet Explorer|Internet Explorer]]'' homepage from 2015. The moment the player tries to type into the fake search bar, an image of a decomposing, diseased cow pops onto the screen. Below are images of self-harm, such as wrist cutting, along with other images that reference or imply it. The background plays out a disturbingly loud, clipping noise. As the sound abruptly cuts out, ominous red text flashes: "SO..." followed quickly by another message above it: "I HEARD YOU LIKE RESEARCHING!" Before the player can react, a color-inverted image of an 9/11 jumper's corpse rapidly strobe-flashes on the screen. Eventually, a distorted humanoid arm lunges forward, shattering the glass before the screen dissolves into white noise, abruptly ending the game.
#愛してるんだよ君のこと........ — I Love You, You Know........ (35:09)
#96回聞くと死ぬ。 — You Die if You Listen 96 Times. (35:46)
#寒雲 — Cold Clouds (36:55)
#ファンタジー ～愛と冒険の彼方に希望を求めて～ — Fantasy ~Seeking Hope Beyond Love and Adventure~ (39:42)
#快楽青空自殺 — Pleasure Blue Sky Suicide (41:58)
#MissingDay — MissingDay (42:43)
====Soundtrack====
With due respect, try lowering your volume down at the start of this album.<br>
[[File:Goodbye to the Dolphin's Dream full album.mp3|200px]]
===Sequel===
==Internet Explorer 2.exe==
A sequel album, titled ''Goodbye to the Dolphin's Dream...2'' (イルカの夢でさようなら...2), landed upon [[wikipedia:Spotify|Spotify]] and across different streaming services on December 13th, 2023.<ref>linkco.re/PNXU1c5T</ref> The music stays within that same signature sound found throughout the first album. Here is the following track listing for the second album:
[[File:Internet Explorer icon 2.png|thumb|200px|An icon design for ''Internet Explorer 2.exe''.]]
''Internet Explorer 2.exe'' served as a sequel to ''Internet Explorer.exe'', but its release date remains unknown. Instead of opening straight to the search engine, the program initially displays a mock-up of a ''[[Wikipedia:Microsoft Windows|Microsoft Windows]]'' desktop. It presents a crudely drawn landscape over an ''[[wikipedia:Internet Explorer|Internet Explorer]]'' icon. Clicking the browser reveals a homepage with news [[websites]] and stock images cut off from the first game.
#君が愛してくれるなら 何処までもキックをロールし続けるよ。 — If You Love Me, I'll Keep Rolling the Kick Forever (0:00)
Once a search query is entered, the results page loads, showing a search input for "yourself" alongside matching images. After a short while, two red, rotating disks resembling eyes appear, accompanied by a loud scream. The screen cuts to black briefly before displaying a gruesome image of a person lying down with a disfigured face, revealing the inside of their head (similar to [[Cherrycake.org]]). Finally, the screen cuts to black once more, flashing the person's screen name colored in red as the program deletes itself from the desktop and ends the game.
#いやぼーん — Iyaborn (1:15)
==Hiatus.exe==
#呪いの手紙は、フローラルな花の香り — The Cursed Letter has a Floral Scent (2:06)
[[File:Hiatus.png|thumb|200px|Opening screen of ''Hiatus.exe''.]] <!-- I don't have an English commentary for it -->
#原宿系 Ｏｰ１５７ — Harajuku-style O-157 (2:41)
''Hiatus.exe'' was a continuation of [[shock site]]-related games similar to ''Internet Explorer.exe''.
#コンピュートピア — Computopia (4:28)
#DJ アマゾネス による超絶プレイ！ — Superb Play by DJ Amazones! (5:04)
#死後の迷宮 — Labyrinth After Death (6:01)
#Again — Again (7:28)
#クレヨンと下敷き魔音の野望 — The Ambition of Crayon and Plastic Board Demon Sound (8:04)
#電脳おはじき — Cyber Ohajiki (10:03)
#アビス — Abyss (11:34)
#ピアニカの捕食シーン — Pianica Predation Scene (13:14)
#夜のアライグマ — Raccoon at Night (14:44)
#昼のアライグマ — Raccoon in the Daytime (15:59)
#電脳おはじき電王戦 — Cyber Ohajiki Denou-sen (18:00)
#ロックマン — [[wikipedia:Mega Man (character)|Rockman]] (19:30)
#みどりゴミ — Green Trash (21:33)
#クォークくん — Quark-kun (23:05)
#呪い I — Curse I (24:23)
#大体戦闘シーン — Mostly Battle Scenes (25:04)
#なんちゃらジャックス — Something-or-other Jacks (26:24)
#今まで可愛がってくれてありがとう...... — Thank You for Loving Me Until Now...... (27:24)
#ＭＩＤＩで遊ぼう — Let's Play with [[wikipedia:MIDI|MIDI]] (36:57)
#卒業式 — Graduation Ceremony (38:13)
#ダライアスなツイン — Darius-like Twin (39:24)
#ブニュブニュ・イノベーション — Bunyu-Bunyu Innovation (39:57)
#水面の小鳥たち II — Small Birds on the Water Surface II (41:30)
#宇宙の果ての言葉 — Words from the Edge of the Universe (42:12)
#初恋 — First Love (42:45)
#ゼリー落下 — Jelly Falling (44:06)
#国民保護サイレン — Civil Protection Siren (45:22)
#見知らぬ街で夢占い — Oneiromancy in a Stranger's Town (46:08)
#死後の生誕 — Birth After Death (47:31)
#春風 — Spring Breeze (48:41)
#そこへ向かうと何も無くなる。 — When You Head There, Everything Vanishes. (50:18)
#この世は、無い — This World Does Not Exist (53:19)
====Soundtrack====
[[File:Goodbye to the Dolphin's Dream full album 2.mp3|200px]]
==Creator==
''Hiatus.exe'' features a play button and black screen text reading:
''ATOLS'' is a Japanese electronic music composer and Vocaloid producer who began experimenting with [[video]] art and [[animation]] in the early 90s. By 1995, he was self-taught in electronic music, using rhythm machines and cassette recorders to create visualized sound. In 2001, he began posting music under the name better on the Japanese indie music site ''muzie.co.jp'' (where the website often links to), participating in rock bands' tours and providing tracks to rappers.<ref>vocaloid.fandom.com/wiki/ATOLS</ref><ref>https://atols.net/light/profile.html</ref> His style are often bizarre, random and strange. As for his own work ''Goodbye to the Dolphin's Dream'', he built this site during his years as a teenager while studying about [[wikipedia:HTML|HTML]].
==History==
"''Sorry for being on hiatus for quite a while... School has been getting in my way. Lots of stuff'' <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[wikipedia:Sic|sic]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> ''have been getting in my way.''"
[[File:AnimeComic-Cell.png|thumb|200px|AnimeComic-Cell from ''[[wikipedia:GeoCities|Yahoo! Japan GeoCities]]'' around the time the site was made.]]
The [[website]] for ''Goodbye to the Dolphin's Dream'' started as a site for personal use by ATOLS. It stayed under the AnimeComic-Cell section inside ''[[wikipedia:GeoCities|Yahoo! Japan GeoCities]]'' during the year 2000. It showed messages like "Stepping over the window. Sorry, I haven't shouted yet" and "Towards the time for moving!". These messages are paired with images featuring "Dolphin Girl" along with her other variations. The site included a reference to the Japanese light novel series ''[[wikipedia:Sister Princess|Sister Princess]]'' ending ("Sister Princess has ended..." シスプリおわっちゃったね...) before changing in 2004 into a major [[wikipedia:alternate reality game|alternate reality game]] horror [[website]].
Another line of text above the play button reads:
==Media==
The [[website]] was part of the list in "[[Must Not Search Wiki|Words You Should Not Search]]" series, according to Lesathpool on October 25, 2010.<ref>youtube.com/watch?v=5b6INOFpJTU&t=59s</ref> The earliest foreign mention of ''Goodbye to the Dolphin's Dreams'' came through an English-speaking [[YouTube]]r ''[[wikipedia:SomeOrdinaryGamers|SomeOrdinaryGamers]]''. After a few months, Austrian YouTuber, Luigikid Gaming uploaded his own gameplay recording to [[YouTube]], which gained toward 142,000 views by March 2026.<ref>youtube.com/watch?v=YyqyvgrO5jg</ref> The website was also covered in a Thai commentary involving Japanese horror [[websites]] like Red Room; it gained around 100,000 views in less than five months.<ref>youtube.com/watch?v=8-xi4_vkl-k</ref>
"''This is a big game... With a loading screen!''"
After clicking the play button, the screen changes into a loading screen. After a few seconds of "loading", it opens a web browser and redirects the user to the original webpage of [[Anne.jpg]]. A short time later, another website opens, linking the user to a Photobucket page from a user named Hypercomp01, featuring numerous images of people in vehicle accidents.<ref>s39.photobucket.com/user/Hypercomp01</ref>
==Trivia==
*MattTheGameMaker released most of his games featuring gore and pornography,<ref>youtube.com/watch?v=m_sQftg_NPg</ref> but a few years later, he deleted them (along with Internet Explorer and its sequel) out of remorse.
*Due to a coding error in ''Internet Explorer 2.exe'', an Apple logo suddenly flashes a split second after clicking the icon.
==References==
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==Links==
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This page is about a screamer or shock site, whose original copy has been deleted.
This screamer's original copy is deleted, but the article links to an archive on the Wayback Machine or another saved copy.
Internet Explorer.exe was the first screamergame in the form of a shock site created and published by MattTheGameMaker on Game Jolt in 2015.
The game opens to an Internet Explorer homepage from 2015. The moment the player tries to type into the fake search bar, an image of a decomposing, diseased cow pops onto the screen. Below are images of self-harm, such as wrist cutting, along with other images that reference or imply it. The background plays out a disturbingly loud, clipping noise. As the sound abruptly cuts out, ominous red text flashes: "SO..." followed quickly by another message above it: "I HEARD YOU LIKE RESEARCHING!" Before the player can react, a color-inverted image of an 9/11 jumper's corpse rapidly strobe-flashes on the screen. Eventually, a distorted humanoid arm lunges forward, shattering the glass before the screen dissolves into white noise, abruptly ending the game.
Internet Explorer 2.exe
An icon design for Internet Explorer 2.exe.
Internet Explorer 2.exe served as a sequel to Internet Explorer.exe, but its release date remains unknown. Instead of opening straight to the search engine, the program initially displays a mock-up of a Microsoft Windows desktop. It presents a crudely drawn landscape over an Internet Explorer icon. Clicking the browser reveals a homepage with news websites and stock images cut off from the first game.
Once a search query is entered, the results page loads, showing a search input for "yourself" alongside matching images. After a short while, two red, rotating disks resembling eyes appear, accompanied by a loud scream. The screen cuts to black briefly before displaying a gruesome image of a person lying down with a disfigured face, revealing the inside of their head (similar to Cherrycake.org). Finally, the screen cuts to black once more, flashing the person's screen name colored in red as the program deletes itself from the desktop and ends the game.
Hiatus.exe
Opening screen of Hiatus.exe.
Hiatus.exe was a continuation of shock site-related games similar to Internet Explorer.exe.
Hiatus.exe features a play button and black screen text reading:
"Sorry for being on hiatus for quite a while... School has been getting in my way. Lots of stuff [sic] have been getting in my way."
Another line of text above the play button reads:
"This is a big game... With a loading screen!"
After clicking the play button, the screen changes into a loading screen. After a few seconds of "loading", it opens a web browser and redirects the user to the original webpage of Anne.jpg. A short time later, another website opens, linking the user to a Photobucket page from a user named Hypercomp01, featuring numerous images of people in vehicle accidents.[1]
Trivia
MattTheGameMaker released most of his games featuring gore and pornography,[2] but a few years later, he deleted them (along with Internet Explorer and its sequel) out of remorse.
Due to a coding error in Internet Explorer 2.exe, an Apple logo suddenly flashes a split second after clicking the icon.
