![]() The headings inside of entries are humorous in nature, with a description of the subject (for example, a medical condition) in an informal and often insulting tone. Articles contained detailed research, timelines, and occasionally included previously unseen images of various well-known events. The Library contained hundreds of articles under 17 different headings, including culture, art, medicine, crime, travel, and the occult. In 2003, The Rotten Library was created as an encyclopedia to supplement the website. In posting the page's removal notice, the site's moderator criticized supporters of both Alberto Gonzales and the Bush Administration for the enablement of censorship. On June 24, 2005, the US federal government ordered that the "Fuck of the Month" section of the site be removed, along with content from several ancillary sites. These ranged from serious matters, such as requests to remove pictures of dead relatives from the site, to Burlington Coat Factory asking to take down '', a domain bought by as a Trenchcoat Mafia reference, though it simply linked to Burlington Coat Factory's webpage. was threatened with many lawsuits over the years, mostly in the form of cease and desist notices. The website was also one of the first websites to publish images of the September 11 jumpers from the Twin Towers, under the title "Swan Dive". However, due to wide interest in the crash, the image was posted anyway, resulting in a large traffic spike. received an alleged image of medical personnel recovering Princess Diana's body from a car accident, though this was later confirmed as fake. Though submissions were marked as "real", often they were misattributed in one instance, a file submitted as "motorcycle.jpg" was given the description of depicting a motorbike accident, but the developers admitted it was probably an attempted shotgun suicide. Content consisted of user-submitted images, with developers rarely posting content themselves. had a spartan layout no thumbnail images were present next to links, and the links had one-line descriptions couched in morbid humor, often carrying no hints at their content. presented itself as a bastion of online free speech, in an era when censorship rules in some countries had begun to restrict internet access. "Rotten" was one of the unclaimed words, and Soylent went on to register in the same year. In late 1996, Soylent wrote a program that identified unregistered Internet domain names consisting of one word with a corresponding dictionary entry. The website's front page was last archived in February 2018. ![]() Site updates slowed in 2009, with the final update in February 2012. Founded in 1996, it was run by a developer known as Soylent Communications. The website, which had the tagline "An archive of disturbing illustration", was devoted to morbid curiosities, pictures of violent acts, deformities, autopsy or forensic photographs, depictions of perverse sex acts, and disturbing or misanthropic historical curiosities. was a shock site active from 1996 to 2012.
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