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I'm sure I've heard of a similar story, of a default value or default IP address resolving to an otherwise quiet village in America. I remember hearing they get a lot of visitors, especially from people investigating a crime or something. I can't for the life of me work out what to google to find it though.

Maybe the hive mind can help?

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I recently watched this Half as Interesting video about the property you're talking about [1]. It happened because the property is at the lat/lon of the center of America, rounded to the nearest integers.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh6zanS_epw - The Glitch That Kept Sending The FBI To A Tiny Kansas Farm

https://gizmodo.com/fnord-1830758394 might be what you want.

I like how you replaced the title with `fnord`.

I'm not young but I found out about the meaning of fnord just an hour ago by randomly clicking through to its Wikipedia article from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation

Undoubtedly I'm about to experience more Baader-Meinhof related to this soon.

beyond having one of the best extended fight scenes in a movie, I think that "they live" is as close to Hollywood acknowledging fnords as you're bound to get.

Now you made me wonder whether any logfile analysis SEOware is ever going to acknowledge the fnords I use to shorten overlong links.

they probably don't see them ...

A favourite hobby of mine in the last has been watching They Live with a friend without telling them the plot.

that's genius.

I'm going to have to give that a try - I think the hard part is finding someone who hasn't seen the movie.

I haven't seen it. What pitch would you give me as a possibly-interested viewer?

I don't have an answer, but I do have an anecdote.

some friends and I had been having spurious movie nights over the years, and decided to give Vampire's Kiss a go. we scoured the horror section of blockbuster and were unable to find it, so we asked. "oh, that's in the comedy section."

Buffeted by this knowledge, we told the movie night host that we found it, and were ready to go, and left it at that. Later, the host, perplexed, stopped the movie and said, "either this is the stupidest vampire movie I've ever seen, or it's supposed to be a comedy." once our laughter stopped, we explained, and continued the movie in peace.

so, I'm not sure I have a pitch, but drop all expectations and just enjoy a classic John Carpenter movie.

Just putting the links for other fellow HN users and spare them a few seconds while searching for the terms :-)

fnord, a word to indicate irony/humor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnord

Baader–Meinhof phenomenon or frequency illusion - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

Uhm, that's not what it indicates. The fnords aren't funny or anything at all, they little things that go unnoticed. They're around you but you never see them, even though they (may) have meaning or effect on you.

Like parts of links that you click on but don't really see.

Seems legit, since when I read that article I thought to myself – weird, I have spent a lot of time on the internet and I don't think I ever encountered this word.

Its heyday was before the web. The book is from the seventies. I expect many, perhaps most people who were on usenet in the late eighties knew the word.

Or any Robert Anton Wilson fans (there are dozens of us, etc).

You might be thinking about the geographical center of U.S. in rural Kansas which is the default geolocation for U.S. IPs.

There was a widespread story about it summarised here. Apparently the lawsuit was settled.

https://www.cracked.com/article_31344_the-maddening-story-of...

(Edited for premature send)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaxMind

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