A $10 thrift store PC seemed as ordinary as they come, until the owner found a veritable 'Library of Alexandria' of early 2000s gay porn reviews

pcgamer.com:

Do you ever stop and think about the ways we seep into our personal electronics? There's that old Reddit line (at least I first saw it on Reddit) «If I die, wipe my hard drive,» and I really feel that—not even in the sense of having compromising stuff in there, but in that it can provide such an uncomfortably intimate picture of you: all the half-done to-do lists, failed aspirations, and the idiosyncratic way you order your life. These thoughts came unbidden to me when I saw the Casey Jones Podcast on Twitter share their discovery of gigabytes of early 2000s direct-to-DVD gay porn and attending critique on a desktop they found at Goodwill.

So I bought a computer from goodwill for 10 dollars to see if I could revive it, and I did. It’s filled with HUNDREDS of written reviews for gay pornography. I can’t stop laughing pic.twitter.com/MfFn1WOjiUJune 1, 2023

«Man, I wanted to install Quake on this thing but now I feel bad for disturbing the Tomb of Gay King Tut,» the podcaster tweeted of this discovery. The rig itself just oozes early aughts—it's one of those gray and black office enterprise numbers, very OptiPlex-adjacent, and the inside is incredibly clean. It even has tidy cable management that would make a PC building influencer blush despite being from the era of top mount power supplies with non-modular, rainbow spaghetti cords.

And then you've got the digital contents: gigabytes of DVD rips and written critiques chronicling a past era of adult entertainment, «thousands upon thousands of pages of extremely professional work» breaking down titillating titles like «Soaked in Sex» and «On the Couch» volumes one and two. The work has the character of a professional website with its layout—I really get the impression that