# Pea Bee tales from indian web rabbit holes. Page: Feed: --- ## [How old is this newspaper?](https://peabee.substack.com/p/how-old-is-this-newspaper) _2025-12-29 · peabee_ Guess the year from old newspaper front pages. ## [Everyone knows all the apps on your phone](https://peabee.substack.com/p/everyone-knows-what-apps-you-use) _2025-03-27 · peabee_ 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](https://peabee.substack.com/p/20-finding-a-forgotten-flavour-of) _2024-03-03 · peabee_ 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](https://peabee.substack.com/p/19-this-is-a-clone-of-nykaas-website) _2023-10-05 · peabee_ The clickbait title is explained later, trust me ## [#18: The little Indian internet corner of database sellers](https://peabee.substack.com/p/18-the-little-indian-internet-corner) _2023-05-28 · peabee_ 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](https://peabee.substack.com/p/17-one-kitchen-hundreds-of-internet) _2022-08-27 · peabee_ 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](https://peabee.substack.com/p/16-the-case-of-fake-imdb-credits) _2022-08-07 · peabee_ I was casually browsing IMDb when I landed on the page for an upcoming Ranbir Kapoor starrer movie “Animal”. ## [#15: The early Indian internet](https://peabee.substack.com/p/15-mafatlal-and-the-early-indian) _2022-07-20 · peabee_ 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](https://peabee.substack.com/p/14-extreme-ironing) _2022-07-03 · peabee_ 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 ## [Stream Torrents & IPTV Instantly (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/FlpH1qLfPLcB) _2022-07-03 · **Sponsored**_ Search magnet links and stream movies, music, books, and live TV in-browser ## [#13: GoogleWhacking](https://peabee.substack.com/p/13-googlewhacking) _2022-03-05 · peabee_ 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!!!