How One Typo Destroyed Thousands Of Computers | Goggle.com

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If you were regularly using the internet in around 2006, there was a brief moment in time, where making one simple typo, would crash your computer, beyond repair. This typo was “Goggle.” The word had gone relatively under the radar for a couple of years, going unnoticed by most users just passing by, but as the world wide web continued to grow exponentially and more people started familiarizing themselves with a more respected website “Google”, more people started to notice it and saw just how devastating it really was. Such a simple word “Goggle” was basically the internet’s basilisk, instantly killing the computers of any user who simply type in the word. This wasn’t just annoying pop ups, this was something that actually did you harm, at least that was the word that was getting around. You see, “Goggle” was widely talked about during its day, a subject that got so popular it led to the creation of an antivirus commercial and a court case, but now, pretty much no information on it has survived. Similar to YouAreAnIdiot.org, there’s a couple articles and forums about it, but that’s about it. Everything else, has seemingly been lost to history. Even the WayBack Machine has blacklisted it from being archived on their database. It’s almost like the internet does not want you to know about Goggle, just because of how truly dangerous it was. These circumstances have instead just left the internet with mostly ambiguity, some recalling the website being very dangerous, others passing it off as an internet hoax, at least the media depicting it. Consequently, Goggle has since become an internet urban legend, frozen in the era it was conceived. Was the story of Goggle.com just a victim of its time, where online record keeping wasn’t much of a priority? Or was it something much darker?
In order to really understand the mysterious and devastating nature behind Goggle.com, we first need to focus on the website’s purpose, how it functioned, and how both these things worked together to lead to its prominence. To really get into comprehensive detail, we need to trace back to the website’s origins. As you could imagine, this will be quite difficult with the limited information out there. But there really is only a few missing pieces of the puzzle. There’s no definitive answers, but we can infer on when it was most likely created. The actual domain for goggle.com appears to have been registered on Valentine’s Day of 1998. This is actually a pretty interesting detail that I will get into in a minute. The identity of the creator is unknown. The website appeared to have been dormant for around 6 years until it reportedly became malicious in 2004, according to very few sources. What’s interesting is that there is no evidence of this website ever existing prior to 2006, and all internet archive sites either have the website blocked or simply didn’t keep record of it prior to this date. For all we know, goggle.com could have been some GeoCities website prior to 2004, and whether it was bought out by some malicious company or started off that way, is a mystery.
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[@tazz1911er]

Certified goggle moment

[@tazz1911er]

@@slimeboy2048 come on he is small content creator Scream if its Raid shadow legends

[@lytatroan]

@@slimeboy2048 agreed

[@lytatroan]

@@tazz1911er "small"

[@slimeboy2048]

@@tazz1911er Sponsors have no place in society.

[@ao8613]

That audio glitch segment was legitimately unsettling. It was timed so well I really thought my phone was freaking out

[@Idabellda]

I got scared for a second too. I was listening to the video but not watching it. xD

[@divineakande6654]

@@Idabellda same, home alone too, proper shitting myself.

[@emilywood77]

i exited out of youtube like twice trying to fix it 😭

[@Tunnelenjoyer]

God it went on for way too long it was actually annoying asf

[@seeibe]

Yeah I felt the video had creepy pasta vibes, but then they committed

[@littlemrsmods7998]

The audio bugging literally scared the shit out of me

[@rsdratspydivision146]

Relatable 😎😎😎😎😎👊👊👊👊🤛🤜🤛✊🤜✊🤜✊

[@nandabun]

You're under exposed then.

[@calliewallieeee]

YES I WAS TERRIFIED

[@celestate]

i thought i got a virus omg

[@nobodycarewho]

SAME

[@roseyAlina]

It’s crazy how the audio cut is so brilliantly done, perfectly fits with the video topic, AND catches everyone off guard while being a COMPLETE accident

[@BinglesP]

Touhou pfp 🫵

[@Ranger-over]

It Fits Perfectly Into The Topic - IT WAS ACCIDENTAL Awn7mFktpB4

[@realtacobell]

It's super annoying and not clever at all

[@boost1606]

​@@realtacobellsomething like that annoys you?😂 Man don't take everything so seriously

[@theresaprice6291]

it was so annoying bro. i wanna watch this while drawing cause i have like 2 hours to finish this art trade and i like listening and it just completely cut me off it’s so annoying it went too long

[@qqtv3067]

After learning from your new video today that the glitch was a mistake, I came back and I’m flawed how perfect that part was as a pure coincidence, an act of fate…and then straight after you say “or was all that just a coincidence?”. And the meta thing is that, yes it really was! One of the coolest coincidences I’ve seen in a while, the universe really aligned for you that day buddy :))

[@X3GoldenOfficial]

Coincidences are amazing.

[@Emily_Bondevik_Official]

It's edited not a coincidence.

[@EllaYouTube-cq8rw]

@@Emily_Bondevik_Official his latest video is literally called “how a glitch gave a KZbinr millions of views”. And he literally explained how it was a complete mistake/coincidence. You really should get your facts right before replying 😉

[@Emily_Bondevik_Official]

@@EllaKZbin-cq8rw and yall are gullible enough to believe it?

[@qqtv3067]

@@Emily_Bondevik_Official I doubt he would have lied ? He wouldn’t have anything to gain from it lmao

[@SuperNoahPlushes]

The fact that the audio cuts back in on the line "or was this all just a coincidence" is both terrifying and hilarious

[@Thebestbobbyboy]

When

[@SuperNoahPlushes]

@@Thebestbobbyboy Audio bug starts at: 6:19 Cuts back in at: 7:41

[@Thebestbobbyboy]

@@SuperNoahPlushes do you know why?

[@SuperNoahPlushes]

@@Thebestbobbyboy editing or rendering bug is my guess

[@DragoonSlayer55]

Ffs i thought i was the only one 😂

[@empty_space_3213]

Imagine someone was actually looking for stores to buy goggles at 💀

[@Precisely_TwoTrucks923]

Omg poor them lol

[@swampertfan5598]

Oof

[@swampertfan5598]

He prop cried for a good hour

[@ashsvanlife]

😭😭😂😂😂😭😭😭

[@Yawnn_]

If that was me I would slowly rage

[@Some__Guy]

I still find it hard to believe the audio glitch was accidental. Partly because you can still hear a low sound that seems like it would come straight out of a horror movie to ramp up tension, but also because the silent section has a lot of darkness, and glitching, and even a kind of weird unsettling close up of the guy's face in a dark room. And then of course the too-perfect timing of it cutting back in at "Or was this all just a coincidence?"

[@Mezocyclone]

the recording of this voice bugged but not the background shit

[@matthewbrooks5470]

Closed captions don't show anything out of the ordinary if you're willing to trust that

[@bookworm4133]

The low sound is likely room tone. You play it throughout the entirety of your video so your cuts are less noticeable.

[@QuiteOkay1]

Audio is stacked differently. It’s a voice clip and a background clip. Voice clip got glitched

[@crioly]

i'm just going to assume you're not aware of how video editing works

[@southernflatland]

I had actually just recently built a computer for my friend when goggle was a thing. Within just a couple days or so, he told me his system got infected due to that very typo. Lucky him he hadn't been using it very long and didn't have any private data on it just yet. I went ahead and reinstalled XP for free for him, and we both learned a hard lesson that day.

[@kayboy6055]

U r really old 😅 jk

[@charlessmith263]

So here is what happens. Phase 1 of the virus release is the irritating pop-ups. Then, Phase 2 worsens your outcome when you try to select "clean out viruses" or remove the pop-up windows. When you find out these attempts fail, Phase 3 makes things a lot lot worse when you try to uninstall the virus elements. It keeps on coming and coming and coming and coming (pop-ups and rogues). And when you try to continue to uninstall the malware --- FAREWELL! YOU DIE! The malware HITS THE 0 SECTOR AND THE MASTER BOOT RECORDS AND KILLS THEM! THEY ARE TERMINATED - AND YOUR COMPUTER IS ALSO TERMINATED! FOR GOOD!

[@lauravturner]

I just realised that kids born after 2011 will never realise how real those parodies of unescapeable viruses and pop-ups were to those of us using PCs in 2005.

[@oxybrightdark8765]

I was born in 2003, so I’m 18. Yeah, I don’t remember it much at all. Although I do remember telling my sister I won an iPhone 4.

[@IronIsKing]

pov born in 2010

[@wolfhaley6900]

Born in 2008…I feel sorry for y’all 😬

[@southof.nowhere6096]

I remember when there were viruses out there for no other purpose but to cause mayhem. The internet was truly a wild place back then lol.

[@Paccyd33]

Hey fellow doctor who fan!

[@voidangel]

i was 7 when goggle was a big scare. i had just started using the computer on my own / without constant supervision.. the sheer amount of times that my mom told me “make sure you type google and not goggle” was insane. so… this video extremely entertained me.

[@experimentxgaming2014]

DAAAAANG you got lucky that your mom told you to not do that typo

[@dominicgdiaz3796]

Sheesh

[@WildRandomVideos-wo3xe]

lmao i remember hearing about this in about 4th grade, and we all went to the url on our computers 😂😂

[@Yadobler]

Show this to your mom

[@SonodaSymphony]

good thing your 7 year old self wasn’t curious enough to type in goggle instead... my 7 year old self probably would have done that

[@Mxchabearr]

People who just wanted to look at goggles in 2006: 💀

[@mirrasadventuregaming5681]

This is actually a funny comment

[@Fluffy_B1u3_p0t4t0]

@@mirrasadventuregaming5681 im pretty sure the person who made this comment just kind of copied another comment that was made 2 years ago 😅

[@Blackfromstickworld]

Yeah he copied a comment 2 years ago I just checked

[@Mxchabearr]

@@Blackfromstickworld fuck someone else made this joke already?

[@mirrasadventuregaming5681]

@@Fluffy_B1u3_p0t4t0 I didn’t know

[@voicedtunic]

i love how the captions carry on with the normal script while the audio cuts out, making it more beleivable

[@Stephanie-mv9iy]

It wasnt even intentional lol

[@bobstevenson3130]

Using the internet was so scary as a kid. I’m not sure how I didn’t accidentally brick more computers than I did with all the random sites I visited and the lack of security at the time. Now Ublock origin is usually enough to avoid everything.

[@Sylde-0]

Wtf is your pfp? 🤣

[@smilesfordays]

@@Sylde-0 the profile picture of a man who has seen so much worse that this is humorous. This is normal.

[@brunobucciarati9308]

Your comment gave me large Deja Vu.

[@yourfriendlysubaruoutback]

Out of curiosity, how many did you brick?

[@Beliasify]

I used to click on those ads where you would shoot the duck 3 times and then a pop up would open. Why did anyone even let kids use computers?

[@seriousnorbo3838]

Someone: misspells a website name Viruses: *"200000 units are ready, with a million more well on the way"*

[@shoaibsiddiq3507]

Lol

[@Donnerjkks]

Hello there

[@impulsivechaos5138]

A man of culture i see

[@enaftenvedsvanefossen6102]

@@impulsivechaos5138 I am a kid and my culture is real lol

[@darthatrox]

@@Donnerjkks general kenobi

[@PotterMarauder]

The “DOES IT EVEN MATTER?” Pop up at 19:13 😂

[@relser187]

This video made me realize that I likely had spyware on my computer in the early 2010s because I remember for a couple of weeks there was a time where inconspicuously there was a random ass search engine that somehow made itself my homepage. I’m not sure how malicious it was since if you searched on it, it would function like a normal search engine, but it definitely was really unusual that it did that. Perhaps someone else has a similar experience and can help me narrow down what site it was haha

[@Ramonatho]

Was it Yandex? I feel like they would have done that

[@smnthatj]

ohh i had something like that too

[@justkittensbeingkittens5892]

Could very well be not harmful except the forced use. If they make money from advertising just getting you to use it could be good enough

[@Rosekatz]

oh yeah that happened to me too, and sometimes it would play audio advertisements and I could never figure out where it was coming from since I was a little kid 😭

[@scipion34]

Perhaps it might be Chromium? Was the logo a fully blue version of the Google Chrome logo?

[@AEleven]

Don't know if the glitching around 6 minutes in is intentional, but it did get me. I was like "wait I'm not still dreaming, right?" Edit: I get it, I get it, it was intentional! Some of you are funny, but stop! The pinned comment was edited, I don't think it originally mentioned the fact that it was intentional (Guess there's no way to prove that, just take my word for it). Edit number two: oh my god i hate you, NationSquid, I'm calling you out with the power of one of the most popular comments on this video! (lol)

[@osvaldomanno272]

sameeeeee

[@wisemage0]

I actually restarted my browser because I thought it was bugging out.

[@davedaviddavidson2924]

I replayed it so many times thinking my browser bugged out

[@infinitywarrior4620]

Here too, but after the glitching, I can't hear until 7:45

[@harrysingsfromtiktok]

Same here must have happened in editing

[@vamp-shy]

i recall being in typing classes in kindergarten when goggle was in its hayday. the amount of posters warning about it at the time in my school’s computer lab was real. i witnessed a kid beside me mistype goggle into a searchbar in the effort to look up the website we were using for the typing program, and the amount of panic that took over in the few teachers we had acting as supervisors was insane. iirc, a few of the popups even had some robotic voice reading off the text on them at an insanely loud volume, so the teachers had to turn off the speakers manually to the computer while they tried to fix it, and the poor kid was so confused they were bawling. this video was a throwback for sure, thank you!

[@chosenuwu]

oh poor kid :(

[@neverinstone]

Poor kid, I would have cried too

[@brianxcx]

It didn't exist though. The lying in these comments is so funny

[@JennBit]

@@brianxcx You don't exist either. You are a hoax.

[@PartyhatRS]

@@brianxcx lol what?

[@perkm0]

the audio glitching was actually terrifying 💀

[@kobcritic624]

I remember watching this when it came out and just figuring it was a weird glitch that would be fixed eventually but your latest video put it in a whole new light

[@two_another]

People don’t give the modern internet enough credit for greatly evading issues like this meanwhile one wrong click in the 2000s would render your family computer useless

[@vibrantgleam]

lmao that's crazy

[@b4rvyy.1]

YUP

[@DeltaFRFX]

And yet the 2000s internet was more enjoyable despite that, while I can't stand the modern internet

[@victor-dx5sl]

@@DeltaFRFX then get off of it

[@Unknown-rm8zp]

@@DeltaFRFX then why are you here, leave it.

[@professionalshitposter6897]

I can't believe my elementary school teachers were right all this time, making one wrong action on a computer really will break it forever!

[@zerdagdir1988]

I wouldn't say forever, just reinstall your OS

[@RoxNoAnne]

@@zerdagdir1988 yeah but only if you have a bootable drive or an installation disk ready

[@zerdagdir1988]

@@RoxNoAnne you can get by one with ease

[@wendyzelaya182]

@@zerdagdir1988 I wonder if those teachers back then know wtf you guys are talking about

[@auray.]

huinvib

[@GingerSnape46]

Came here from the "Glitch" video.

[@404fanfanboy]

Same

[@_-Lx-_]

Who's here after the new video?

[@slayzote]

I love listening to computer breaking glitches from the 2000s XD edit: 10klikes thank you sooooo much =D

[@dejavu3547]

Love Zote

[@hannerieboshoff842]

Same

[@Chompwing]

me to XD

[@JokeURL]

Same

[@electromayhem5608]

Me too! It’s kinda funny to listen to the reactions of the unsuspecting victims

[@MathieuGuimondMorganti]

I remember our computer got infected with the Spy Sheriff ransomware from that website at that time. I emailed the malware authors asking them nicely to fix our computer, and weirdly enough, they did! They emailed me back with a free license key to remove the ransomware... Who would've thought? I can confirm that, in my experience, the website acted exactly like it did in that McAfee commercial (minus the dramatic music lol). It used some kind of exploit kit to take over the computer and install the Spy Sheriff ransomware within seconds, without any user interaction. Spy Sheriff wasn't your run-of-the-mill rogue AV either... It completely locked down your computer until you paid the license fee. It was effectively an early form of ransomware rather than mere scareware, like most other rogue AVs.

[@TheMagic1412]

Spy Sheriff sounds familiar. I think back in like 2006 or 2007 my grandfather installed it to my already adware infected computer (60+ popups that I was used to right clicking close all on for a few minutes until they stopped), it was disguised inside of a fake adware remover that he installed from cnet, which is a shadey enough place as is X,D Does Spy Sheriff have a scanner that makes it look like you got a Gazillion Trojans? I remember seeing a list of viruses that I had no clue how I had so many without doing anything, and my grandpa did a reinstall of the OS before grounding me from the computer.

[@TheMagic1412]

nvm just reached that part of the video. and yes it looks to be what was installed to my old PC, welp thats a decade old mystery solved for me lol. Sorry 4 bothering you lol

[@TapTapClick]

I had some kind of ransomware on one of my old pc back when I was on windows xp and I got lucky that coding hadn't made enough progress at the time to properly lock me out of my pc because I found a backdoor that would shut down the program and allow me to access my pc rather than being stuck with a ransomware program that wouldn't minimize or let me see my desktop. The way I got around it so I could delete the files it was attached to was simply just after I logged in but before the ransomware launched I'd launch some program that when you shut down the system or log out it brings up the 'these programs are stopping the computer from logging off do you want to close them' and then I would hit no but since they didn't give the ransomware the same kind of treatment it would have been shut down to start the logging off process and my computer was back in my control. Took me like 6 days to figure out what to do but thank god it worked. The ransomware I had was saying it was the FBI. But I've always ran my pc on the dangerous side with little to no antivirus (other than whatever windows provides)

[@enderger5308]

Also acts a bit like McAfee itself…

[@PancakeSparkle]

There are worse rogues out there, I actually have a copy of spysheriff that I tried on a VM, it wasn't as bad as some of the other stuff I have in my malware collection

[@destinythegravityfallsfan]

I have experience with typosquatting websites. Fortunately I never actually uploaded the virus, but I went to a website for a podcast I listened to. Unfortunately, as it was a podcast, I didn't know the actual spelling for it, which led me to type it wrong. The actual website was fine, but I got close to uploading a virus with the fake one. I'm just glad I'm so paranoid and didn't click anything lol

[@TheDarkFalcon]

Was definitely a real site in terms of spam and scammy pages, but I don't remember my computer ever being infected from visiting it. The most annoying thing was you couldn't close the web browsers when they had alert windows open, so they had a constant chain of alert windows you had to keep clicking cancel on, and while you were doing that dozens of pop up windows were appearing. I'd just turn my computer off with the power button to end it 😂😭😂

[@cheri924]

bro that eerie wind sound when the audio cuts is TOO UNSETTLING. this is the first video ive seen from you and its a good impression!! really entertaining but really scary. i literally have a huge fear of internally damaged computers so this really unsettled me. 👏👏👏

[@_end3rguy_]

If u turn on tha captions he is apparently still saying stuff

[@maxpayz2431]

@@_end3rguy_ it's probably a glitch with the video

[@cheri924]

@@maxpayz2431 idk bro the eerie ambience sound feels intentional

[@torapuff]

Be wary though, this youtuber has made several hoaxes that he tried to pass off as real (godlyrecon and a fake christine chubbuck footage video to name a few)

[@cheri924]

@@torapuff i dont care lol its entertaining

[@bricklingtonlego]

I like how he goes from discussing fatal crashes that could break your hard drive to promoting Japanese kitchen knives.

[@puppieslovies]

Brakes are a vehicle stopping mechanism. You mean break

[@bricklingtonlego]

@@puppieslovies 🤓

[@puppieslovies]

@@bricklingtonlego bro you failed 6th grade english

[@bricklingtonlego]

@@puppieslovies 🤔 🤓👊

[@Docnew]

@@puppieslovies this is YT not a goddamn essay

[@Wingriddenangel3013]

I just found this channel like 2 hours ago and saw this video. I was a kid when this was a thing and I remember doing this. I destroyed my fathers pc he kept everything on with this. I worked my butt off to pay him back for this and I remember him laughing and saying that a week before this had happened he backed everything up and moved it onto a new computer and the one I messed up was supposed to become mine and my brothers anyway. Such a crazy time lol. Great videos you are making! A lot of these viruses I have either witnessed happen to others (or myself obviously lol) or be talked about due to my father being a huge tech person and building computers for others to make money to pay bills or food for us when funds were low.

[@karafoley729]

fuckin audio glitch scared me RIP

[@ninjakiwigames5418]

Same. My headphones sometimes don't work the best, so I had to triple check to be sure it's the video and not the headphones

[@reidleblanc3140]

I imagine goggle being a particularly common typo for new internet users who thought the site was actually named after the real word instead of whatever the hell "google" is

[@MrZer093]

Especially as the name itself is a typo of the number “googol”, which is 1 followed by 100 zeros, the idea being that it’ll search through that many things (there aren’t even that many atoms in the known universe). Of course, no one really knew of that number either and knowledge of the number only went up after Google took off in popularity lol.

[@imealol]

Also there's the word Googol which is a number that's 1 to the power of 100

[@Stinker0610]

@@imealol 1 to the power of 100 is 1, I think you mean 10 to the power of 100

[@stillbuyvhs]

This is a comic strip character from the 1910's named Barney Google. (He had big, "googly" eyes.)

[@Nakia11798]

I mean, even if you KNEW it was google, it would be easy to accidentally hit 2 g instead of 2 o.

[@GweenOfTea]

Really shocked I never heard about this as a kid with how much my parents thought every website was dangerous, I even remember them telling me not to use KZbin too much because it would give the PC a virus 😭

[@PumpyGT]

Lmao

[@reinhardtwilhelm5415]

Man, why do tech-illiterate people have so much unearned confidence in their beliefs?

[@generic7939]

Well, they weren't completely wrong with YT. In the very very early days when Google first bought out YT, they placed ads to some strange places. I remember getting a virus from a wikia site that kept redirecting me to an anal-focused porn site lol.

[@scarlettetherose]

My dad thought the same thing when I was younger. Told me not to use youtube because it could be dangerous.

[@ashimochi]

@@generic7939 amazing

[@ajorsomething4935]

I respect how convincing the audio error was, when it first started it sounded exactly like youtube videos I've previously viewed where the editor accidentally leaves in bad takes or a sentence gets repeated.

[@The_mario_bro]

That glitch part almost got me to call a whole repair store

[@Fr3ak_MM8BDM]

Never in my life would I expect mini documentaries about computer anomalies to be so entertaining and riveting. PLEASE make more videos exactly like this one!

[@Lowkeyyshorts]

Check out disrupt His channel is also pretty good 👍🏻

[@miaplacidus1902]

Check the "ILOVEYOU" one on this channel, it's super interesting!

[@_Hotaru__]

UP!

[@SireForseti]

Disrupt is a pretty cool channel yea

[@MrVariant]

@@miaplacidus1902 yep it's a great time capsule, and that was even recommended by youtube for me.

[@Lowkeyyshorts]

You had me there for a second around the 6 minute mark. Was getting very worried 😂

[@serverbf100mr]

Same

[@SpaceWalkerReal]

Same 💀💀

[@thekinoyobehindthepigeons9827]

I thought my phone was glitching BAHAHAHA

[@atomics_7345]

Thanks for showing me this comment

[@EpicBub]

same

[@thewolfstu]

those one-letter-off ones always bug me cause it is just such a low blow to not only get a typo, but a virus. I remember a while back on... I don't remember which computer, but it was during the height of agar io, which in itself might of been some kind of virus or something, there was another sight that was a one letter off. Loud noises, flashing visuals and smiley dog I think? Maybe Jeff the killer at the center. Feckin hate that sheit, instantly Ctrl+W that. I count myself lucky that *Seemingly* nothing came of it.

[@MIX3Y_]

7:36 im scared

[@bibbytenbillion]

the fact that the audio cuts back in on "or is this just a coincidence" is beautiful

[@tweer64]

The fact that it cuts back there IS just a coincidence because the audio glitching was obviously an accident.

[@RaphielShiraha64]

@@tweer64 they said in a comment it was intentional

[@Phoenixoflife56]

It’s strange how very little information survived about this considering how destructive it is and also even some of the earliest computer viruses are still pretty well documented. It’s either that someone (probably Google) wants this buried or it’s completely bullshit

[@klausstock8020]

I find it even more strange that the BonziBuddy website is still up...

[@Sammysapphira]

Because this video is 95% fake and exaggerates what the virus actually does. The virus did nothing unless you RAN THE EXE FILE........ JUST LIKE EVERY VIRUS. Remote execution of an executable is extremely rare even in 2005. The people that got viruses ran the virus themselves.

[@FlorenceSlugcat]

Its bullshit This youtuber is actually dramatizing the story alot, and made alot of it up. The real story is that, yes, the website was malicious, but it did not brick your computer. It only popped up alot of popups, which made it difficult to exit out of, and the popups could also lead to downloading viruses if you were to click them. But other than that, there was no “computer becomes instantly screwed by visiting goggle”

[@shockmazta3116]

It is bullshit. It's not real, just some shitty creepypasta.

[@stephenluttrell8958]

My money is on bullshit. Even at Google’s modern influence level, they can’t suppress news to this level. At best, they could bury it in their own search engine. But, if goggle was truly as distructive as the myth claims, not only would the news have blown up, but there would have been other sites stealing and using the exploit. There would be evidence of Microsoft making a mad scramble to patch the vulnerability. This was the mid aughts, not the dark ages. I bet the site actually existed. It was probably malicious. It probably had certain people nervous, and even panicking, but I doubt it was the computer destroying monster that the myth claims. It was probably the same level of menace that Bonzi Buddy was. I was an adult in 2006. I was just about to enter college a year later for an IT degree. No body I knew was even talking about this, and if there was a viral site someone in IT could trick another into visiting, it would have happened.

[@TheAdventuresOfJimiJaden]

When my English teacher spelled “Goggle Docs” on an assignment, I thought of this and told him about it. The only video demonstrating footage of Goggle destroying your PC is a PSA that came out in 2006, showing what actually happened when the typo was made.

[@Gdub33]

Woah dude you had me at that glitch segment. At first I was about to make a comment about you needing to fire your editor. But then I realized what it was after having a really bad feeling in my stomach for a few seconds. I consider myself good with technology but even I had a thought for a split second that maybe I was being hacked. Brilliant editing bro. Very smart stuff.

[@CDeeez94]

Damn, the glitches got me. Made me exit out of full screen to make sure I wasn't tripping.

[@Duduzaum]

SAME LMAO

[@poizan3605]

SAME

[@averagegenzguy2751]

I just thought my speaker broke

[@24K-___-]

Same

[@roshayredd4437]

That was me at first…then confusion. But then something in me was like -Anxiety ON😀 He did a good job😅

[@Aymarichan]

I remember being a kid and running into viruses. My fear of them caused me to like white hatting, internet safety, and privacy measures when using computers 😅

[@Bazzemboi]

Lol same Expect that it made me much more paranoid. All my nightmares nowadays are about getting viruses (which I had one of tonight lol)

[@Kitschune24]

@@Bazzemboi I've had at least 2 or 3 nightmares about my computer getting a virus/ ransomware before, you're not alone in your paranoid nightmares.

[@Mary22peyton]

I found my people

[@Bazzemboi]

@@Kitschune24 Lucky you. I literally can't think of any nightmare I have had in the last 10 years not about viruses.

[@Aymarichan]

Tbh, I’m a Mac user now. I still have my windows laptop and know well how to use it, (I’ve noticed some people that switch completely forget how to use windows) but I feel like my MacBook is a lot more secure than my windows. But I also use the same measures I used with my windows so that probably helps a LOT, and the fact that certain things can’t even work on a MacBook unless it’s coded to probably helps too lol.

[@naturevalleygranolabar5696]

I remember doing this as a kid on my mom's XP laptop since I'd heard it could brick your computer. The popups scared me so much that I just turned the computer off completely. I don't think it did any damage, but even as a 20 y/o now I still panic for a split second when I realise I'm on a scammy website...!

[@ronslayton5270]

XP Professional. Group Policy editor. Software Restriction Policies. Add path rule for your browser's cache. Set to "disallow". BAM. No more drive-by downloads. This is how I was running for years by 2006.

[@StrongNoah]

If you have the Professional Edition! I have the home edition.

[@ackee39]

Wow, this is a really well made video! Idk why I find it so fascinating to learn about random old computer glitches and people exploiting them. And also quick side-note: from 6:22 to around 7 minutes, the audio and subtitles go completely crazy, and then the audio cuts off at one point. Not sure if it was on purpose but I thought I would just let you know.

[@proudy1199]

Iam in this section rn and i thoutgh my coputer just gone crazy

[@charliecjk8695]

I don't see anything wrong with the subtitles

[@miaplacidus1902]

@@charliecjk8695 at some point around 6:30 it doesn't line up and there's words he didn't even say that come up in the captions, maybe that's goggle's fault who knows

[@FemboyAhri]

I just thought it was part of it

[@miku4296]

YEA I WAS SCARED MY PHONE EXPLODES

[@spencerreidswife]

I don’t know why, but listening to people talk about computer viruses is entertaining.

[@khensanimngomezulu8018]

so true

[@creeperjo7]

It creeps me out

[@itz_vinny]

Ikr 🙃

[@NamelessStoryteller]

You should watch danooct1 then. Dude's an absolute legend.

[@chickenegg3035]

@@creeperjo7 same but I love it to-

[@PAGEDELETED]

My stomach dropped as soon as the volume glitch happened! I was like oh shoot dude, my phones gone!

[@wcpcontrolandbosscrayfish822]

Fun fact: Google was misspelled. It was supposed to be spelled Googol. But they put the domain name incorrectly.

[@Etsa]

When I was a kid I had a nightmare about a virus that was a band of cute animals playing instruments on my desktop as the wallpaper. Over time they got more and more angry looking and eventually looked evil. It's a vague memory but I remember it being a dream of my old windows 95 getting a virus.

[@NorthernChimp]

Pretty realistic actually 😅🥴

[@ooferine504]

We found the missing piece of fnaf lore guys

[@Etsa]

@@ooferine504 it's funny because it's the same vibe but it was also in the 90s.

[@gjkdshgkjshjkgdfg]

fnaf irl confirmed

[@burp2019]

must have been playing too much neopets

[@violetzebra9307]

For anyone who didn't read the pinned comment, the audio glitch was on purpose. Subtitles still have that portion of the video, so it's suggested you turn them on!

[@TheGreenYoutuber]

What’s the time stamp?

[@macandfries6765]

Why?

[@indokid5311]

@@macandfries6765 To scare u

[@creator-link]

Really it seem more like joking way to admit a mistake? I am not familiar with the youtuber but it feel weird to intentionally lose content like this

[@tweer64]

@@creator-link This definitely is the case.

[@Fawnathepokemon]

I wasn't sure if my computer had glitched or if something like that happened, so I went back over it and wasn't sure if you noticed but you clearly do... It just had me freaking out because I'm using a Windows currently and my Chromebook says: "Chrome OS is missing or damaged" and it was actually showing physical errors! Like black glitchy parts of the screen, and when they popped up I would hear some sort of static! It freaked me out and I don't want that to happen again!

[@bapsbaby6441]

The audio cutting out really had my heart racing for a second 😂

[@georgefrankly]

Goggle absolutely existed as early as 2000- I remember it being a search engine page when I was in middle school. I had one teacher that insisted that Goggle was the CORRECT one to use, not Google. It didn't appear malicious at that point, at least.

[@davidhayden6481]

Definitely existed as a non malicious site. I remember specifically searching for words close to "Google" (Dunno what my goal was) but I 100% went to goggle on my Windows XP computer, which I still have, and still works fine.

[@spiritlesswolf2029]

I ended up using it only a couple years ago without noticing at first. Though it didn't do any harm

[@kamiyama-chairdesklamp]

Thank you for confirming I'm not going crazy :) I remember briefly using it as one myself. I didn't have a home computer, so this was mostly gonna be work or libraries. The next time I was near a computer, which is about 05-06 when I got online for real, most computers did the reroute mentioned in the video.

[@JimmyVermeer]

Never trust anything teachers tell you. The purpose of school isn't to teach facts. It's to teach obedience.

[@LightsAnon]

Thank you, I remembered using it as my main search engine as a joke around 2004. Exactly the same as google in layout, it just said goggle instead.

[@nernerman]

I won't forget it. My mother called me over the phone in a panic one time because her computer came "under attack" when she tried to visit Facebook. So I came by, and it was on one of those un-backout-able pages with a warning sound, and a siren. Turns out she typed Facebokk instead. I won't lie, it gave me a little chuckle.

[@TheHolySpiritISgreat]

Just press esc or use windows r and type mrt and follow the prompts. That or ctrl alt del and task manager and force close the browser.

[@parkerthewaffle]

*F A C E B O K K*

[@Tzshchsjsjxijyo]

facebokk

[@gav6189]

@@TheHolySpiritISgreat thank you for offering your solution to a situation from 15 years ago

[@TheHolySpiritISgreat]

@@gav6189 helps for anyone who faces the problem or is curious on how to solve it. Thank you for commenting on a 8 month old thread. Don't you have better things to do? Cmon I just became a true Christian lemme just live.

[@shermanzuki]

4:13 where can I find that page to get domain information?

[@AltheaFaith_]

*DUDE! The cuts were amazing edits, I thought my phone was broken for a second.*

[@poolturtle5772]

This is going on my list of “how did people use the Internet” videos. Because seriously, the more you learn the more you realize that we probably should have broken more things than we did.

[@AxolotlQueen]

is it private or public? i wanna see

[@potatogaming3312]

@@AxolotlQueen same

[@thelocalnecromancer1224]

@@AxolotlQueen I don't think it's public. I looked at the channel and it has no playlists there so it must be private.

[@TJF588]

"AOL Keywords" were pushed by media targeted to kids, such as typing "Nick" in for Nickelodeon. Never bothered to look up how all that worked, but did streamline to experience to get where you intended, I'd think.

[@exploringwithmatthew1629]

I remember being in class in around 2013 daring my friend to go to Goggle, and when he did I expected all hell to break loose and the computer to be bricked but to our disappointment it was just a technology store! We had no clue about new owners so we thought that they were trying a new method or something lol, good times

[@Oirezthefirst]

Lol

[@RedGuardYF]

Such websites were common in the 2000s. Security was much worse than today and browsing the web was like walking in minefield.

[@cassyrea3726]

i've accidentally filled the house computer w viruses to various degrees of severity in my childhood and i swear i have never recovered from the jumpscare of a malicious, loud pop-up coming up on the screen and to this day am only creeped out by hearing about anything related to computer viruses/malware (and when i receive any type of error message on a computer i STILL get the heart-drop sensation). btw the last time i destroyed a computer i was probably 8 or 9.

[@philippsommer189]

Scarred 4 life

[@Blazio]

Relatable lol don't know why viruses and crashes still scare me so much

[@t1red802]

I’ve had the exact same experience lmao, mum was not happy about the laptop she bought me for the start of high school getting popups everywhere and then entirely bricking 😂😂😂

[@CaiinAngelCookiereal]

I call it.. ✨ TRAUMA OF GETTING THAT VIRUS✨

[@InfiniteGrenades]

I went there as a curious 13-year-old computer nerd and can tell you firsthand that it was a bunch of scammy pop-ups and autoscript processes that made it difficult to navigate away from the page. We did have a few viruses on the family computer around that time, but nothing that bricked our 2007 HP.

[@luckyluca1346]

I went there on a school computer in 2011. Nothing happened. I clicked on a survey to win an iPad out of curiosity to see if the website got patched. Instant bricked computer. No OS boot up possible. A new windows OS was installed.

[@godzillamcentertainmentVCU]

18:55 I would just like to say, Rest In Peace for your PC.

[@SophisticatedWaffle]

Never knew a simple typo could be so life-changing

[@asrielnightcast6610]

6:43 thank you for the moment of silence that amplified the sound of my cat noisily licking his own asshole in the quiet darkness of my room I really appreciate it

[@user-tp4ck8ch8d]

lmao

[@gamblingers]

kinky

[@gropue3622]

@@gamblingers no

[@gamblingers]

@@gropue3622 *yes*

[@gropue3622]

@@gamblingers please no

[@Jeahy.]

You're a god for making something like 6:22 fits the entire video perfectly and holy it sent shivers down my spine especially with the recent log4j thing going on. Keep making such good content.

[@fnafdisruptor]

log4j?

[@jonasdatlas4668]

@@fnafdisruptor log4j is a very common Java logging library, which recently had a critical vulnerability, which given its prevalence is absolutely terrifying.

[@Tairex777]

@@fnafdisruptor you could type something in Minecraft chat and basically run commands on their PC.

[@Tairex777]

@@fnafdisruptor Basically the WMF exploit from the video but you don't need to do anything, as soon as someone sends the exploit it hacks everyone in the MC server, runs code on your website server, delete your game servers, etc.

[@ernestsgulbis7329]

I thought for a moment that my new bluetooth headphones went crazy.

[@eutral]

"This was this" famous last words

[@412lop7]

His next life first words “or was this all just a coincidence”

[@stormcrest]

I’m glad that I found audio glitch comments otherwise I would have been freaked out

[@lesbianaconda2971]

God. As someone who didn’t enter the world (and therefore the Internet) until after 2000, the fact that websites used to be able to just DO THIS is insane to me.

[@SupaKoopaTroopa64]

Born in '01 here, and I remember hearing about this goggle website, thinking that it would be an epic prank to open it on one of the school computers. The problem was that this was in like 2012 - 2014, so the site was replaced with some Ipod giveaway scam that didn't do anything. I guess we just missed the golden age of malware.

[@spleens4200]

03’ I was just a year before all of this

[@thejhonnie]

modern web browsers have stage fright as a standard as well as so many different lines of defense..growing up without these features made me a little more in tune with sketchy sites, at the cost of losing a few computers growing up

[@ThePandafriend]

It's still possible. Obviously it's not as simple anymore, but if some malware jumps the browser sandbox and uses an unpatched exploit it could do exactly this (admittably through another path).

[@randomstuff-qu7sh]

You still see it today, just manifesting in other ways. People with mischievous or malicious intent find vulnerabilities and design malware to exploit them. Once the exploit is discovered, people rush to patch the vulnerabilities and then the cycle starts all over again.

[@joserojas4580]

The video: "This was one of the most breaking virus online" Sponsorship: "So you use knives?"

[@okaoka2094]

youll need it in case you meet the ransomware author

[@joplys2697]

@Emma’s Birdtopian Account is not a ad is just the sponsorship

[@8198_]

i legitimately thought that my computer lagged out on youtube so badly that it just cut the audio out, i was about to be so angry at my computer 💀

[@highstepnightowl]

Considering the very real danger to your computer caused by a simple website, I don't think I can make fun of my parents' fear of Y2K anymore. It must have felt more legitimate than I remembered.

[@peewee678]

Y2K _was_ a serious and potential problem; hence the countless hours invested in fixing this.

[@Geeler]

Fear of an aesthetic?

[@kaiwii_]

@@Geelerno it’s not an aesthetic lmaoo. y2k was a computer programming shortcut that was expected to cause havoc when the year changed from 1999 to 2000.

[@DavidJCobb]

@@Geeler back before the 2000s, lots of computers stored the year as a two-digit number, so there was a concern that all the world's computers would malfunction en masse when the year rolled over from Year 99 to Year 0. tons of computer programmers worked very hard to fix it ironically, some older systems are due for a similar problem soon -- the Year 2038 problem -- and _because_ programmers did such a good job preventing Y2K from breaking anything, not as many people are taking the upcoming problem seriously. after all, everyone was so scared of Y2K and when it came around, nothing even broke, right?

[@Just_A_Rando29]

​@@Geeleromg...😭

[@stopmotion2645]

It’s satisfying to me. This guy just talking about how computers may have ruined people’s lives. It melts my brain

[@seulg1s.m0nster]

The production value on this video is actually insane. You deserve 1 million subs already.

[@moldypizza__]

“Today, we will learn about how one simple typo killed many computers beyond repai- KAMIKOTO KNIFES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

[@nautic_arts23154]

There’s something so satisfyingly creepy about extremely dangerous computer viruses. Idk how else to explain it lol.

[@magencrisis1682]

Indeed, I thought I was the only one who got weird chills with this stuff haha.

[@Wahinies]

Ive had nightmares about my desktops being infected and even the bios/efi was messed up and when I thought unplugging the power would stop it from doing damage the machines remained in operation being unplugged from power

[@nautic_arts23154]

@@magencrisis1682 Nope lol

[@nautic_arts23154]

@@Wahinies Same lol. Except it wasn’t my computer, it was someone else’s computer, which made it worse

[@Vitor20XX]

@@Wahinies i had the same dreams lol, but it was a Virus + Screamer.

[@foxracing8973]

I swear those of us that grew up in the early 2000s, (grew up as in old enough to use the computer and internet) really were the pioneers of learning the Dos and Don'ts of being on the internet. I remember going to Goggle by accident by a typo bc that was when I was learning to type without looking at the keyboard. Not long after that our PC got the blue screen of death but I'm not sure if it was from that or something else malicious.

[@meghanachauhan9380]

I remember my cpu melting because of multiple viruses n having to replace it. And i was only trying to play mta

[@pixstatic200]

@@meghanachauhan9380 I highly doubt your CPU melted (and even if it did, replacing it wouldn't get rid of the viruses)

[@ASMRPajamas]

Probably had more to do with all the gay trans disabled furry porn you were watching.

[@davidsmock8235]

Thanks for making me feel old! lol I was a kid when Windows 95 came out and we only had dialup! lol

[@meghanachauhan9380]

@@pixstatic200 it really did. I had to buy a new pc. I remember cause it almost cost a mini fortune back then

[@404fanfanboy]

Glitch video made me come back back to this lmao

[@Pokemon_Grenade]

Aduio broke near 6:27 and a little beyond

[@C0smiccharm]

I thought it was a part of the video but it freaked me out especially with that eerie sound!

[@krart8401]

don’t worry y’all, glitching at 6:30 is intentional. you can hear ambiance in the background, and nationsquid left a comment about it.

[@Axispa.]

it shiver's my back

[@unoriginalperson72]

The audio also conveniently comes back with nation saying "or was this all just a coincidence"

[@tyrexdragonthe1bonniefan305]

Ohhhh. I was confused as hell XD ty!

[@tweer64]

The ambience was present when he was talking before. I’m guessing the editing software corrupted when exporting. The reason he hasn’t reuploaded the video is probably because it fits with the theme of the video. The pinned comment was edited, likely because he didn’t know about it until people pointed it out to him, and he later edited it to make a joke.

[@nora__]

I have this weird memory from elementary school when Google was probably brand new. I’m guessing it was probably 1999. We were in computer class and our teacher told us to type Google and one of my classmates made this typo… He was sitting too far away for me to see his screen but my understanding was that it was an adult website. Our teacher freaked.

[@Azzaroth]

Oh...

[@Azzaroth]

Ok

[@GamepadStudios]

Oof

[@sxrxnrr1]

First 1998

[@agentredactedvr]

i was sitting in bed at 3 AM when i first watched this and it genuinly spooked tf outa me, WHY IS THERE BACKGROUND AUDIO LIKE THAT AS WELL?

[@phillcypher8231]

ok but the fact that the captions still go on when the audio glitch is happening is a amazing detail

[@vinicyn]

i love how the sponsor is advertising knives. “don’t be a hacker, _stab people.”_

[@LilacMonarch]

Finally some quality knives for murde-- I mean, for cooking food in the kitchen

[@mirrasadventuregaming5681]

@@LilacMonarch💀

[@threadinfinite7070]

If making a typo could blue screen your computer, it would be illegal for me to use them in public places. Lol

[@_..-.._..-.._]

It’s funny about the audio glitch except for people who only listen while working, thanks for making me panic.

[@ForgOfficial.]

i noticed the audio glitch as fake immediately but i realised the captions kept going as if it wasnt and got genuinely worried for a second. great job

[@mntri881]

It's already 15 years since that McAfee advertisement. Time flies fast

[@jodofe4879]

It is already 8 hours since this comment was posted. Time flies fast

[@Kyuubey0406]

I hate mcafee

[@Protosune]

McAfee is trash, i tested it to detect even the most basic ransomware, that even Windows Defender can detect and still didn't even scanned the file. This is hilarious.

[@NatetheNintendofan]

@@Protosune works for me;)

[@Bazzemboi]

@@jodofe4879 God it's 2 days now. Very fast

[@Lowkeyyshorts]

Someone could just sell goggles on the website 😂

[@-WhatTheActualHay-]

lol

[@chaos-sy1kq]

It's interesting how everyone says nothing leaves the Internet, once it's there it's there forever, but the amount of hidden history, missing parts and concervation projects desperately trying to keep pieces of Internet history away from the brink of loss makes you think

[@HisShadowX]

The fact this video used a scam sponsor shows you how things change in time

[@kikic9097]

Video: starts glitching Me, suddenly paranoid a virus has wormed it's way from a KZbin video to my phone: 🤺 *BACK.* *BACK I SAY* 🤺

[@sn0koplasm]

Omg thats what i thought

[@daneshannon884]

I thought I was going crazy hearing the glitches in the audio, glad to know that I don't need to be administered to a home. 6:22 is the time mark

[@lieutenant7884]

Lmao, thought the video was glitching.

[@dogmanwes2790]

I thought it was my phone

[@boredsandwich_2]

I was scared that the voices were layering lol

[@dogmanwes2790]

@@boredsandwich_2 me too I thought my phone was about to blow up

[@boredsandwich_2]

@@dogmanwes2790 yeah

[@Fizzymilkshakee]

Wait the audio glitched? I never noticed this

[@kaeyaliker]

dude that audio glitch was insane i'll literally never forgive you i thought my aliexpress airpods were on their deathbed fr

[@kaeyaliker]

just read it was not intentional but still 😢

[@WishfulLPS]

“Hmmmmm I need some swimming goggles, let’s search up the best brand” “What the fuck”