Redditors Reveal The Internet's 15 Most Hidden Secrets

These Redditors share the internet secrets from deep in the archives!

Ivan Kim

• Published in Funny
• December 12, 2019

No matter how geeky we are about computers and the Internet, we still come across with some tricks, or perhaps, internet secrets every now and then. And like a camel yearning for gallons of water, we're all thirsty to learn all these tricks and secrets.

Apparently, we've been blessed with Redditors who are more willing to share the internet secrets. These "secrets" were sort of hidden for a long time, but they can't be technically called secrets, because now they're being handed out to everyone!

True, the Internet is a scary place. Yet, it's full of cool things in dark places. When a Reddit user asked, "What are the best kept secrets on the Internet?", the Internet nerds responded so quickly.

#15 Get access to more than 2.3 million books, 76 million non-fiction books, and 2.2 million fiction books now!

libgen.is is a source to get almost EVERY fiction or non-fiction book out there. For non-fiction, you press the sci-tech button, and for fiction, you press the fiction button. You can also get comics and textbooks, all for free.

#14 Some people are just too generous to share almost everything

These things are reasons why I love the internet:

You can download many free textbooks and any other ebooks from these websites… http://b-ok.org, https://ebooks-shares.org, https://ebookhunter.ch/, https://ebooklogin.com/,… many more

You can read and download any academic journals from this website https://sci-hub.tw/

You can pay cheapest fuel in Australia from this website via 7/11 app https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/288802

You can block a lot of ads in any websites by using ublock orgin (including block ads in websites like youtube, facebook,…), if these websites ask you to turn off your adblock, visit this site https://github.com/reek/anti-adblock-killer

You can download any free softwares, ebooks, movies,..for free from these websites https://thepiratebay.org, sanet.st

You can learn anything from Lynda or read any thing from kindle ebooks, Proquest database by joining a public library for free.

You can read any newspapers online like nyt, wsj, the australian, harvard bussiness review,… for free with thishttps://github.com/nextgens/anti-paywall/releases/

This site saves a lot of deleted websites https://archive.org/web/

You can download any mp3 files on youtube via this site for free https://www.yout.com(just delete “ube”)

many more…Are these still secrets?

Edited: typosEdited: Thanks for the gold 🙂

#13 Download is 下载 (Xiàzài) in Chinese and скачать (skachat') in Russian. You're welcome

The @#$% of foreign sites u can use to pirate literally anything just google translate “download” to chinese or russian combined with the name of what you’re looking for and u have it.

Russians are the best for books and research papers

Chinese have literally every movie, tv series and game known to man

#12 Technically, there's no such thing as "delete" on the Internet

The wayback machine and how you can recover deleted news articles, posts and other otherwise unreachable pages.

It’s the reason nothing on the internet is truly ever deleted.

#11 Anybody ready to spill the tea? We're ready!

The job sites where you can actually get a job instead of send applications that never get read.

It’s the best kept secret, so I don’t know where it is 🙁

edit: Well I woke up to like 300 responses, hope you guys are having better luck than me becuase I can’t read all that stuff, I’m too busy doing nothing

#10 This secret is only for the Aussies

A certain service station/fuel company in Australia has a phone app that let’s you lock in the price of fuel at your closest fuel station for a week. People have ‘found various ways’ to lock in the price of fuel at any of their stores in Australia (against the TOS) , giving you huge discounts if your local fuel servos are expensive/at the top of the cycle. Eg. If fuel in Brisbane is $1.70 and it’s $1.20 in Melbourne.. You’d pay as if you’re in Melbourne, saving you 50c/L.

Edit: can I mention to all the people saying it’s theft, that I don’t personally do this, and the people that do aren’t really committing theft because they’re still paying for the product.

#9 This tool is committed to helping you save money.

Camelcamelcamel, it’s a tool that tracks the prices of everything on amazon. You can see trends like if the product goes on sale a certain time of year, you can set notifications to alert you if a product dips below a certain price. It’s an invaluable tool if you do a lot of amazon shopping.

https://camelcamelcamel.com/

#8 Who is the Gord? Let me tell you about the Gord

http://www.actsofgord.com/

This website has been online since the mid 90’s. It’s a collection of stories from a guy working at a video game store in Canada. It’s like a collection of r/maliciouscompliance posts. The Gord is just, but ruthless. The writing style is great and the stories are usually pretty funny.

#7 The internet mystery that has anyone *puzzled* (pun intended)

The identity of the creator or creators of the Cicada 3301 puzzles.

#6 Music lovers are definitely gonna love this!

I love radiooooo.com You can listen to music from around the world in different decades at the click of a button. Found many great music from it. If your into world musix, definitely check it out.

#5 Bitcoin is a real thing created by a real person

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?

Creator of bitcoin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto

#4 A faster way to end tasks. I sure will be using this a lot!

Ctrl +shift+esc brings up the task manager directly instead of pressing Ctrl+alt+del then clicking task manager

#3 I'm pretty sure you're going to check this out immediately

The Library of Babel

It is a fascinating experiment which uses algorithms to prove Jorge Luis Borges’ theory that anything and everything text based can be and has been created just through the random assignment of characters using a labyrinth of bookshelves in a hexagon format.

Every work of fiction or non fiction can be created word for word randomly given enough permutations.

Anything randomly discovered in the library will be in exactly the same spot when re-discovered without having to generate the millions and millions of pages of text and store it.

https://libraryofbabel.info/theory.html

#2 Get ready for some discounts, ladies and gents!

Save10, save20, and save 30 are premier discount codes on a surprising amount of websites. Anytime on a check out and just try one of these and 25% of the time one of them work.

Edit: honey has been mentioned a bunch. Linus from Linus tech tips has actually mentioned hell that has saved his company thousands of dollars.

Edit: according to the comments test followed by a series of numbers like 1 2 3, 10, 20, 30 in some cases test 100 seem to have given discounts as well.

#1 It takes patience and self-control not to click "Check Out" right away! But trust me, it'll be worth the wait

"Don't buy anything straightaway, but leave it in your cart for a week. For most places, there's a high chance you'll get a discount offer. I know because I used to work for a company what would set the machinations for it."

Ivan Kim