I was just thinking about this the other day how I realized I was going down some deep rabbit holes just looking things up on my phone.

I don’t even remember what I started off with, but I do recall finding myself reading about ancient Roman weaponry or something, but the original item I was searching and reading about had nothing to do with that. It’s funny how the internet can do that to you. Usually happens with Wikipedia and YouTube for me.

Has this ever happened to you? Can you recall any funny examples?

Almost every day. Today: started out looking for a Kydex flashlight belt holster ended @ "Pablo Escobear" the cocaine bear.

My routine is the toilet for my daily constitution. Check messages, then end up losing the feeling in my legs cause I sat on the throne too long watching videos.

I always end up on some sexy girl showing off her latest clothing purchase.

I finally turned into a dirty old man. Took me 50 years so I'm not to upset about it.

YouTube "shorts" are my weakness

I did a very good job of this many years back when I got my 1st computer system all hooked up and dial up internet on line. Twas a Gateway Computer system and came in the huge milk cow box.. . Didn't know how to use the internet so I think I ended up in some foreign country, chopping down a banana tree with a Louisville Slugger... . Then there was the matter of getting back to earth. It doesn't pay to know what you are doing, when you dont know what you are doing.

The YouTube shorts can be pretty addictive. It's especially nice that the numerous truly mindless posts are dispatched into oblivion with a quick click.

I developed the addiction to follow the information rabbit-hole when Dad bought us a set of the Encyclopedia Britannica in the 70's. We would shout out hot new finds to each other like finding a buried gem. During the time period of that edition, the hot topics were the race into space and the development of computing technology. The internet and fast connection speeds fed my addiction like crack.

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Originally posted by sse:
YouTube "shorts" are my weakness

esp the Dave Chappelle shorts,



there was a thread here at one time about utube channels,

I found myself down in a few rabbit holes,

noodling (catching catfish etc by hand)

the Paper Cartridge channel led to British Muzzleloaders and a few others,


and a few on fishing with magnets in the former eastern bloc countries,


and many more

Pretty much YouTube.

I'll start at Led Zeppelin, and end up at "How to do an Appendectomy" hours later.

Nice to see I'm not alone!

Happens to me all the time. I'll be researching something, come across something else, start following that up.

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Originally posted by Av8nShooter:
I developed the addiction to follow the information rabbit-hole when Dad bought us a set of the Encyclopedia Britannica in the 70's.

I think my parents' purchase of World Book Encyclopedia was both as a research tool for us, and as a method to get us out of their hair.

We'd ask a question, Mom would say "look it up," and we'd be buried in the books for hours, jumping from one topic to the next.

Much more recently, a friend introduced me to Reddit. Digital rabbit hole? Heck, yes, it is!

I have found the online archive for the Marquette Mining Journal newspaper from 1868 to 1955. An almost hundred years' worth of rabbit hole.

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Originally posted by lyman:

noodling (catching catfish etc by hand)

You're not alone there. I could watch Hannah Barron videos all day.

Rabbit Holing on YouTube is fun. Found some cool music videos at 2AM when I can't sleep. And because of that I need to pay attention to recommended more. Had some awesome user made stuff pop up from time to time.

Movie facts,
Cast members, their ages during filming,
Who they were married too.

Location of the movies.
Where they were filmed.

Houses or buildings at the locations.

Quotes in the movies.

I’ve been guilty of the sitting on the can too long until my legs went numb going down a rabbit hole. Glad to hear that it wasn’t only me.

Often. Sometimes it's IMDB and occasionally youtube. Most often it's wikipedia. I can be watching "Saving Private Ryan" and something will trigger a question about WWII. A half hour later hyperlinks have me reading about Dutch elm disease.

Dan

With me it's genealogy. I'll get started following the lineage of someone and the results from a search bring out some unrelated but interesting persons and I'll branch out and begin following that lead. Pretty soon I have a dozen tabs open in my browser for all those people, trying to update my family tree (which now has abut 23,000 persons in it).

flashguy

Usually as a result of a book. Just read one about Elisabeth, who was Queen Victoria’s granddaughter and sister of Alexandra, the last Tsarina of Russia. After all I’ve read about the Russian revolution and Nicholas and Alexandra, how had I missed that her sister started a monastery and was sainted. Fascinating.

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Originally posted by flashguy:
With me it's genealogy. I'll get started following the lineage of someone and the results from a search bring out some unrelated but interesting persons and I'll branch out and begin following that lead. Pretty soon I have a dozen tabs open in my browser for all those people, trying to update my family tree (which now has abut 23,000 persons in it).

flashguy

Same here. I'll find a document such as marriage license which gives another name or date that was missing, and it opens a whole new area to explore.

You're way ahead of me, my tree is only a couple hundred so far.

I do it constantly, especially on YouTube, I just don't use my phone for it as I hate the little screen...