Doug Battenhausen is a guy who’s got a blog called “Internet History”. This blog is all about pictures, but not perfect pictures, with carefully-applied filters and studied camera angles. This blog is about amateur pictures that show some strange moments in the lives’ of anonymous people. These are old pictures that Battenhausen mines for in the forgotten corners of the Internet, like Webshots, Flickr or Photobucket.
“If there’s one rule I try to keep to all the time it’s that I try to find pictures that have been abandoned. If you’re still actively using your photosharing website, I don’t want to encroach on that. Through ‘Internet history,’ I think I’m giving a second life to orphans”.
By orphans, he means pictures that have been abandoned on these dead, obscure photo accounts and which are also bizarre, funny, weird, you name them. They all show the beauty and surprise of everyday life. We’ve got 50 pictures for you, right here. Enjoy!
1. An old-fashioned fight
2. What is that?
3. What a haircut!
4. With white pony and all that!
5. Who’s the absolute queen of drama?
6. This looks like a hell of a deal!
7. Ancient version of Birdman?!
8. In those times, TV rocked your world!
9. Not sure what this was meant to be
10. Happy stove!
11. That’s Pope…wait a minute…Benedict XVI
12. Well, I want that job!
13. A perfect representation of USA?!
14. Somebody was in pain here
15. Water and something a little bit more fun
16. The Dell monitor said:
17. A travelling experience
18. This is how you make a ….what’s that?
19. You don’t need to see the tachometer if you have Jesus
20. Heavy duty!
21. Just a window, you silly!
22. Art at its finest
23. Sweet!
24. It looks like some fun is coming
25. That is not how happy I am when washing the dishes
