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†‡† (Cross Doublecross Cross?) [Jun. 7th, 2010|09:27 am]
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†‡†, as mentioned in the Witch House music post below, appear to live at this MySpace page — because †‡† is of course unsearchable and generally not terribly handy for this internet lark, they use the ID "rrritualzzz" on MySpace.

It occurred to me last night that having a name that Google can’t process well might actually be entirely deliberate. On the internet, there is no real underground anymore. So if you wanted to create an underground for yourself, the first thing you might do is generate a sort of lexical darknet by using keyterms search engines can’t parse.

Which is actually pretty clever.

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[User Picture]From: [info]dewline
2010-06-07 04:49 pm (UTC)

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The next step possibly being cross-pollinating between writing systems(IE: Combining random glyphs from multiple alphabets, ideogrammatics, etc.)?
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[User Picture]From: [info]morbid_curious
2010-06-07 05:08 pm (UTC)

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I would have mentioned them if you hadn't already :-) Yes, sometimes they're chkchkchk instead.
[User Picture]From: [info]bluebear2
2010-06-07 05:15 pm (UTC)

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I can remember when being on Internet was underground. Now it's going public.

(I say "Internet" and and not "The Internet" as it's now said. The "The" got added sometime in the '90s. It seemed awkward at first but I got used to it and now it's become standard.)
[User Picture]From: [info]caerwiden
2010-06-07 05:19 pm (UTC)

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Oh cool, I like this.
[User Picture]From: [info]hep
2010-06-07 05:39 pm (UTC)

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on irc to hide channels, we often make channels after patching our unicode so you can do things like katakana and cyrillic letters. then most irc clients cant even read the chans if they are unpatched (tho modern guis often can) some people even patch their ircs to read color codes so that you could join a channel named a block of colored text.

also the the is always hard to find on the internet. stupid stopwords.
[User Picture]From: [info]polyfrog
2010-06-07 09:48 pm (UTC)

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I came here to say the same thing, but before I hit "Post Comment" I tried it. It seems google has figured it out, because you can now search for "the the" and find them. Even "the the Perfect" gets references to the The The song by that title.
[User Picture]From: [info]hep
2010-06-07 11:28 pm (UTC)

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yeah, i remember back even just like 2 years ago, the only way you could find the the fan pages was to go to the yahoo music section, to the band list, and there was like 5 websites there. drove me insane.
[User Picture]From: [info]phthoggos
2010-06-07 09:31 pm (UTC)

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I stumbled across some of these kids not too long ago:
http://www.last.fm/tag/trianglecore/artists
here's somebody blogging about it:
http://www.last.fm/user/Meatbreak/journal/2010/05/27/3o0gxh_drowned_in_sound_witch_house_thread

But now that Pitchfork's written about them, the scene is dead, right? I think that's how these things work.