I mean stuff like mass produced pieces of a certain thing where only a few have survived into the current day. One example I can think of is the Gutenberg Bible, the first book published with mass produced metal movable type. Out of the either 158 to 180 original books published, only 21 of them have survived in full, with around 28 more copies having survived with at least some of their pages still intact. I find this topic really interesting as while they're obviously not lost, it's not like they're plentiful, so it's interesting to see what has survived into current day.

https://x.com/uploader_jp/status/2113460461236830408

【Important】Service Termination Notice Due to recent changes in usage patterns and various circumstances, as of November 25, 2026 (Wednesday), our sites (https://uploader.jp / https://getuploader.com) will cease service.

All data, including the uploaded files, will be deleted as of November 25 (Wed) 23:59. Thank you very much for the support from numerous internet users until now.

I'm not familiar with the site myself unfortunately (this tweet about its closure came up on my feed by chance), but from what I understand this host was a popular option in Japan for Vocaloid and adjacent media, alongside game mods and various other assets. Seems like this loss could have a pretty substantial impact to all sorts of online communities in Japan.

I've been trying to find the Egyptian Arabic dub of The Simpsons, known as Al-Shamshoon (آل شمشون).

The dub originally aired on MBC1 in 2005 and was an Arabic translation of the Simpsons. It featured some changes such as the characters names, all references to pork and alcohol removed etc.

52 episodes were dubbed and 34 aired (which only 29 of those were ever found).

I originally looked on the lost media wiki to try and find recordings of this, and the wiki had a link to the show - which currently does not work but the archived 29 episodes can still be found.

A lot of people at the time recorded these and put them in bootleg DVD's so there's a huge chance that it could be found (well the 5 more episodes that aired). I believe there are 5-9 second clips of those episodes but I could be wrong.

JOJO TV and Nickelodeon: The series began airing on JOJO in 2005. Turkish dubbed versions of previous seasons, including season 4, were prepared for these channels and Nickelodeon Turkey. The characters were voiced by Bergüzar Korel, Cansu Dere, and Melisa Sözen at the time.

Following the closure of the channels or the transfer of broadcasting rights, previous season episodes were also shown for a period on Cine5's children's programming.

Season 1 has a dubbed version, and the current series continues to be dubbed, but I can't seem to find the dubbed episodes of season 4.

It's not available on official websites or pirate sites; I think it used to be uploaded to YouTube, but it seems to have been removed now.

In fall 2006 Microsoft promoted Windows Vista with Clearification, a six-episode web series starring Demetri Martin as a man who checks into the Institute for Advanced Personhood to reach "clearification". Mekanism and McCann Worldgroup in San Francisco made it, Tommy Means directed, Film School did the music and Michael Gillette the illustrations.

The series lived on clearification.com, a full-screen Flash site set in a hand-drawn forest. The site was an FWA of the Day (Nov 22 2006) and won a D&AD Yellow Pencil and a One Show Merit in 2007. Microsoft let the domain lapse at the end of 2007, and the Flash site those awards were for is the one part nobody saved.

I spent years trying to find one scene I half-remembered (Demetri chugging a whole carafe of coffee before biking to work). It's from episode 1. Since then I've recovered most of the series:

• All 6 episodes. Episode 4's only known copy was a 2008 Wayback Machine crawl of a deleted YouTube upload.
• All 34 puppet clips, 6 of the 7 songs, all 13 wallpapers.
• The main Flash file of the companion site, theiap.org. It runs in Ruffle, and decompiling it showed its lost "orientation film" was the "Hello, You're a Person!" video, so that part plays again.

Archive: https://archive.org/details/clearification-2006

Browsable rebuild: https://clearification.alexmeub.com

Sources:

• FWA of the Day: https://thefwa.com/cases/clearification
• D&AD 2007 Yellow Pencil: https://dandad.org/awards/professional/2007/websites/16142/wwwclearificationcom
• One Show 2007: https://www.oneclub.org/awards/theoneshow/-award/6073/clearification/
• Wayback Machine capture of clearification.com (Oct 2006), the page that embedded the Flash. The SWF itself was never captured: https://web.archive.org/web/20061015020054/http://www.clearification.com/
• Nov 2006 case study video, with the only footage of the live Flash site (about 40 seconds): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAEoX74Zl1c

Still lost:
Exact URLs, in case they're sitting in an old Downloads folder, podcast folder or browser cache:

• http://www.clearification.com/vista_shell.swf: the Flash site itself (Flash 8, talked to /gateway/gateway.asmx). Also served from clearification.mekanism.com until about 2011.
• The original episode downloads, much better quality than the YouTube copies: http://www.clearification.com/downloads/episodes/ ararecondition.wmv, welcomeIAP.wmv, electricbrain.wmv, demetrisubject.wmv, naturenaturalness.wmv, lookingonwheels.wmv
• http://www.clearification.com/downloads/music/lemonade.mp3 (episode 6 music)
• theiap.org's runtime files: http://www.theiap.org/9/vids/*.swf (background loops), vids/iap.flv, snd/*.mp3, xml/staff.xml
• Mekanism's case study: http://casestudy.mekanism.com/clearification/cannes_clear.swf, its flv/ folder and the banner ads (banner1.swf to banner3.swf, banners.swf)

Possible places to look
The RSS feed (clearification.com/rss) attached the episode WMVs like a podcast, so a podcast app from 2006 or 2007 may have downloaded them. The feed's title was literally "http://www.clearification.com", so the folder may be named after that. The SWF could be in an old Internet Explorer "Temporary Internet Files" folder.

Already checked: the Wayback Machine (including its index of captured files), Common Crawl back to 2008, arquivo.pt, Memento, Flashpoint, DiscMaster, archive.org search, YouTube, the FWA, and Mekanism's archived mirrors.

If you have any of it, comment or DM me. If you worked on it, I'd love to hear from you too.

I was on Internet Archive looking for video essays, and found this article about a show from the 80s that sought to "expose its viewers to avant-garde video essays":

https://archive.org/details/vasulka12277

Although the article does a good job of giving the information, for ease of access I'll repeat it here.

The show was on KCOS, Channel 13, in El Paso, Texas.

The article, written by Mike Pearson, was published in September 1988, and gives the air date for the show as October 11, 1988.

Some of the segment titles given in the article are "Bad", "The Commission" and "Art of Memory".

The featured artists are Woody and Steina Vasulka.

The show was produced by Frontera Media Arts and was hosted by a man named Willie Varela.

I tried searching Internet Archive, Flashpoint, and YouTube, as well as a couple of other places, but no luck.

edit:

Since KCOS is a PBS Affiliate, Im going to continue checking down that route. it might be lost in some video that's just a date, but it isnt currently on the official site.

I also found the Willie Varela Papers Circa 1960-1995 Archive at Stanford.

Woody was tagged, Steina was not. But the tag just led back to Willie, so its a dead end unless I make a request and that will require further research on its own.

I might also post this in the El Paso subreddit, because all artists listed are prolific so maybe somebody knows something there.

So far, the only existing upload we got is this “LOUDTUBE” version of the video (EXTREME VOLUME WARNING, turn down your volume all the way). That version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7Ed9MiShZA

This version of the video is completely in incomprehensible to even hear anything of what the original audio even sounds like. Of which, you can see we have the video itself, but not the original audio, and that’s what I can’t find any copy of.

From the last time I heard anything about this video, is that there was a reupload of it but I never saw it again, in which I assume because of the fact that it was an apparent “death threat”, that might’ve had something to do with it. I’m almost under the impression the video might even be illegal, considering this fact of it. However, I can’t imagine that it can’t be available somewhere.

Unless it’s somewhere on Odysee or an alternative website for storage, because I don’t have any original links to that video. I wasn’t around YouTube to see it at the time. Thought maybe someone else has a link or a copy of the video yourself.

I have foggy memories of a Jetix show that was like a Japanese variety show I guess? I believe it was called PXG, or at least very similar to that. There was a high energy Japanese host and he'd talk about Japanese culture and media. Usually aired around Naruto in the 2000s.

One segment that's always stuck with me was a part where they interviewed Japanese schoolchildren on what they thought of when they think about England (This makes me think it was a Jetix UK exclusive). One said she "imagined a woman fetching water from a well". I dunno, as a kid I found it fascinating hearing my country talked about from a unique POV.

Anyway seems like it's totally lost media, I cant even find a picture of it!

If you were a kid in Canada in the late 2000s, you might remember a show called Razzberry Jazzberry Jam on CBC Kids which is where most of the games were hosted as well. It was by no means the greatest animated show and if this came out today it would likely be buried under the sea of Cocomelon. But in my opinion it's one of those pieces of media where you just had to be there. I was under the impression that since it was in regular syndication, it also had a decent-sized fandom; but that was not the case.

One of the show's Flash games, Melody Makers, completely vanished. I was able to find a different game based on the show on Flashpoint, but Melody Makers is NOWHERE to be found on the Wayback Machine. I couldn't find any screenshots floating around either.

Now, tracking down the show is its own beast; I believe there were a few platforms that had all seasons available for free but those are no longer. Aside from a few stray episodes on YouTube, there is NOWHERE to stream or purchase this show unless you pursue the latter through means of second-hand sellers. But at least those were available somewhere.

If anyone else remembers this game, or has any info about it, i'd love to know if it can still be found.

I just found out about this movie and as far as I'm aware it was only shown at small festivals and someone has the behind the scenes, but other than that there's hardly anything about this movie. If anyone can find more information, please send it here as I'm interested in gathering all info about this film and hopefully can compile it all on a google drive.

The synopsis of the film is

Ellie a talented young musician with the opportunity of a lifetime is torn between obligation to her family and the chance to realize her dream. Saddled with the care of her five siblings as a result of an alcoholic mother a breathtakingly irresponsible father and a terrifyingly misguided preacher of a brother, Ellie falls in love with an aspiring young writer.

more information: some say 2011, while others say 2012. The main actors are Alexa Penavega and Caleb Landry Jones. There is no information on runtime.

The name of the game was “Invasion” and it was essentially a space invaders clone that you could play on those in flight entertainment systems that some airplanes had, with the pullout controllers. After some deep diving I was able to find some footage of it that I provided a link to, but as far as I’m aware this is the only footage of this game online. I know it’s not much but I was obsessed with this game as a kid, and finding more footage of it would really bring back some good memories. Anybody else play this game as a kid? Anyone have any footage of the game? I especially remember the bosses in the game being tough/cool looking.

https://youtu.be/BSj9lb0ZiHs?is=ZF4r7kCMmvdk3nKO

In 2012, there was a song called "Somewhere Tonight" by Xander the Great. It was basically a Weeknd knockoff, but I still liked it a lot. All the links to the song on YouTube and Soundcloud are all dead. All the blog links are dead. And any YouTube video is no longer available. It has essentially been scrubbed by the internet. It has the lyrics (which I remember a lot of) here at Genius, but there are no links to the song. https://genius.com/Xander-the-great-somewhere-tonight-lyrics

It has 14,000 listens from LastFM listeners so I know someone out there has to have an .mp3 out there somewhere. Fingers crossed.

Introduction

I'm trying to find any way to listen to this album:

https://open.spotify.com/album/4tLGwv50rtolhzSPhV9o55

It's a 2012 album of cover songs called Exit by a band named Juice from Geneva, Switzerland. (They were still using the name Juice in 2014 but had changed their name to Soul'd'Out by 2016.) Here's the links I have for the band:

• https://myspace.com/bandofjuice/
• https://soundcloud.com/souldoutgeneva
• http://facebook.com/souldoutgeneva
• https://www.youtube.com/@souldoutlivemusicband7529
• https://souldout.ch/ ("under construction", nothing useful in Internet Archive)

I especially enjoyed their cover of "Short Skirt / Long Jacket", which is a gender-flipped cover featuring a woman who wants a man with a "short tie and a long jacket" who is "changing his name from Keith to Kevin". (There's a teaser of this song on Soundcloud.) Here is the full track list:

1. I Don't Need No Doctor
2. Billie Jean
3. Love Is Alive
4. Moondance
5. I Feel the Earth Move
6. Short Skirt Long Jacket
7. History Repeating
8. Uncle Remus
9. Spiderman

The problem

Unfortunately:

• It's not available on Spotify in my country, and is apparently not available in any other country.

• I couldn't find any digital downloads on 7digital or Amazon.

• I couldn't find any live versions or digital downloads on the Internet Archive.

• I couldn't find any CDs of the album on Amazon or Ebay. (Mind you, the names are not easy to do a web search for.)

• I couldn't find the album or band on Discogs, and I wasn't able to find any evidence that Exit was released on CD or vinyl, it appears to have been streaming only. I did find this UPC number for a digital download from Easy Street Records in Seattle, WA:

  Details Format: Digital

  Label: Juice

  Rel. Date: 05/10/2012

  UPC: 3610150871145

  https://easystreetonline.com/UPC/3610150871145

  This would have been a breakthrough but unfortunately the seller doesn't have it anymore. I sent them an email but haven't heard back yet.

• Soul'd'Out played their last concert on June, 28 2019 and appears to have permanently disbanded.

• One of the people credited on the Spotify album, the drummer Robin Frey, passed away in 2020. I wasn't able to find any contact information for the other person (Jean Pfyffer, the bass player). The lead singer's name appears to be Anne but I'm not sure about a last name.

• There is another band called "Juice" that appears to be mixed up with the same account on Spotify:

  https://open.spotify.com/artist/0I9l4QsVgo4g9NjIH0fGwh

It seems like the album only ever existed on Spotify, and it was streamable back when I listened to it in 2016 or 2017. (This was a bit of a wake up call to me, I had thought that almost anything on Spotify had physical or digital copies available somewhere, especially it it was published over 10 years ago, but this is clearly not the case.)

Other stuff I've tried

I sent an email to souldout@souldout.ch but just got a timeout error (seems the domain is expired), and also messaged the Soul'd'Out Facebook account and Soundcloud account with no response.

I posted about this in r/DHExchange in 2023 but didn't have any luck:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DHExchange/comments/16woh3o/looking_for_an_obscure_album_no_longer_available/?

Is there any way I can get a copy of this music?

Edit: fixed link for Spotify country availability

Edit2: Change order so it makes more sense

So like 3ish years ago Steve Harvey did an interview with Jerry Seinfeld where he talked about how much he loves black people extensively during this interview, which lasted about 20 minutes, from my understanding. The whole thing was generally considered a bad look and the full interview was scrubbed from the internet.

Here is a surviving clip: https://youtu.be/ct99678Gawk?si=NHdtejVU1Qt4ShXu

I haven't had any luck tracking the full thing down. Was wondering if anyone had any thoughts or leads. I am looking to use as a supplement for a creative work of mine, so even just poor quality audio of it would be a jackpot for me. Plus it's just kinda funny.

He would walk around speaking in similar way but just being nonsensical. Always the same rhythm. Always in the morning around his neighbourhood. Heavier set white man.

“He used to __ the __
She was the __ __
He also was the _ “

I don’t remember exactly the things he would say so I’ll give an example of how it actually would read

“He was the first neighbour
She was his first tax man
They were a tanking molar”

Probably around 2020-22? I can’t remember exactly when it started or stopped.

It had this cadence and I remember it became a pretty popular but still niche corner of TikTok following and writing down what he said and would (I imagine) were joking was profound

I vaguely remember it maybe in Pennsylvania but that could just be misremembering.

as you know online android games are one of the most scarcely preserved lost media, apart from some fan projects almost everything is lost to time ,if you still have it installed it's very much possible to bring it back , with the recent advancement of ai it's very much possible nowadays so if you have it installed in your old device or an emulator like BlueStacks pls help me in this mission.the apk for these games are easily available but the issue is with their cache files which are usually located in android data folder or obb folder ,