People from my Internet generation, those who came online in the mid-1990s, have rose-tinted memories of early Web “shock sites"—sites with unassuming URLs containing horrible pictures of awful things ...

The rise of the web's gross-out culture began, ironically, with a government crackdown on Internet obscenity. In 1996 the US Congress passed the Communications Decency Act, which criminalized the use ...

Last night, I received an alarming email. It was from the people who now own goatse.cx. “BREAKING NEWS: YOU can now OWN a piece of GOATSE.CX in the Ethereum blockchain!” it exclaimed. Worrying. If you ...

The infamous Goatse.cx domain, once home to a shock site with a picture of a man stretching his anus to a seemingly-impossible diameter, has endorsed the virtual currency Dogecoin. Users brave enough ...

Along with Mahir, Mr. T Ate My Balls, All Your Base Are Belong To Us, and a pervasive embarrassment about discussing these things in daylight, dedicated early users of the internet were intimately ...

The internet’s most notorious shock site will add a little bit of pizazz to your boring email address. Tired of people opening the emails you send them? An Australian IT consultant has just the thing.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q82RNlCRoFs#!] It was nigh on half a decade ago that I first met the fell demon they call Goatse.cx ...

In November of last year, Gawker reported that the notorious gross-out site “Goatse.cx,” which showed an old man splaying open his anus for all to see, was being transitioned from a nostalgia-laden ...

A sacrosanct Internet institution is for sale: how much would you pay to own Goatse.cx (totally safe for work.... for now)? According to its official auction page on seobidding.com, the Goatse.cx ...

Goatse Security, the firm who blew the lid off of an exploit that allowed the names and email addresses of over 114,000 iPad owners to be farmed, is speaking out. In a blog post, Goastse team member ...