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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Bryan Derksen (talk | contribs) at 15:43, 25 February 2002 (HTML trickery used to cause browser to automatically jump to goatse.cx on mouseover - this definitely needs to be disabled in Wiki software!). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Goatse.cx is an infamous site on the World Wide Web. It consists of a rather gory picture of a man opening his anus, rectum and possibly his entire lower intestine to approximately three times the normal size of such an orifice.

The link was often disguised in posts to Slashdot as a hoax, in an attempt to get readers to click on it. Once Slashdot began to display the domain name of a linked URL in brackets following the link (example: Wikipedia: The free encyclopedia [wikipedia.com]), people began to set up mirror sites and use public CGI redirect scripts run by sites such as Yahoo!.

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