How old is this newspaper?
Guess the year from old newspaper front pages.
Pea Bee
tales from indian web rabbit holes.
Live Last read · last published · next check
Latest posts
Everyone knows all the apps on your phone
Until a few years ago, any app you installed on an Android device could see all other apps on your phone without your permission.
#20: Finding a forgotten flavour of chips
Lays India used to do a lot of experimental limited-edition flavours back in the day.
#19 This is a clone of Nykaa's website
The clickbait title is explained later, trust me
#18: The little Indian internet corner of database sellers
When I googled the name “Inspirewebz”, their website was still active, but it’s no longer available. However, according to the web archive of their website (available since mid-2020), they sold dodgy-looking social media marketing tools like bulk WhatsApp/SMS senders and data extractors.
#17: One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants
There are a few cloud kitchen restaurants that deliver food that is so shit that I want to know which other brands are being run from the same kitchen so that I can avoid them all.
#16: The case of fake IMDb credits
I was casually browsing IMDb when I landed on the page for an upcoming Ranbir Kapoor starrer movie “Animal”.
#15: The early Indian internet
I don’t quite know how I landed on the website “mafatlal.co.in” on the Internet Archive. But it led me into a rabbit hole of the early days of the Internet in India. mafatlal.co.in was one of the first domains registered with a “.in” TLD. It was owned by a rich businessman called Miheer Mafatlal. Here is a picture of him:
#14: Extreme ironing
A couple of months back, I made a search engine to look for half loaves of bread in stores. I was tired of wasting leftover bread and made this because, well I could. You can try it here: halfloafnear.me
#13: GoogleWhacking
It has blocked a total of 2.337 Million network requests in the last 3 years for me. That is an astonishing no. of ads and trackers. The 21% here means that for every 5 network requests made on a webpage I opened, roughly one of them was for an ad or a tracker. 1 in 5!!!