Asklemmy

Ok, this was years ago, so the details are a little vague. Maybe that's not such a bad thing, but it might make the story a little less interesting. But it was very creepy/disturbing.

I was looking at an open source software project for something (don't remember what) and was exploring the home site for the project. It all seemed very techy and geeky and, while I don't remember what the project was, I remember it looked very useful.

I continued to poke around among the documentation and, after I'd found everything I wanted about the project itself, began looking around the site more generally. As well as being the home page for the project, it was also the home page for the developer himself.

I read through his "about" page and it all seemed perfectly normal for us geeky types and then I clicked on a link that said something like "pictures".

What I then encountered was a warning page. It said that what followed was several pictures of dead bodies in various states of decomposition. It said that the site owner enjoyed looking as these pictures. It didn't say explicitly, but it was strongly implied that it was sexual pleasure he experienced.

I'm grateful that he put that warning page there because I did not want to see those pictures. I quickly closed the browser completely and sat in a state of shock for a few minutes.

The idea of those pictures was bad enough, but to come across them (or the idea of them) so out of the blue and in a completely different context was extremely disturbing.