Infiltration – the zine about going places you're not supposed to go
This is the <i>old</i> internet, and what got me addicted to urban exploration and other niche hobbies - it&#x27;s still an active community, especially on UER.ca, if you ever wish to join but facebook really has decimated small websites like such and expanded reach.<p>I remember over a decade ago, there was a small chat on UER that you could hop on and chat with people and it was a really core, solid community, and 15 years ago it was much more, open and solid community. I personally can&#x27;t believe it&#x27;s been quite a while. You can still post photos&#x2F;meetups on UER.CA but it is very reputation based, while the facebook side anyone shows up - and a few that I&#x27;ve attended have just turned out quite differently then older Urbex meetups.<p>RIP ninjalicious :(<p>The internet back 15-20 years ago was much much more decentralized then it is today, and while no one is actively preventing you from creating your own forum&#x2F;site - the network effect is not the same as using your Facebook to join a group and going from there, unfortunately. And for fringe hobbies, the harder it is to <i>get into</i> or <i>find</i> the more active the community is, simply because the people involved are much &quot;content creators&quot; or passionate about it.<p>And trespassing and possible tangible legal issues, and risk - Urbex was about exploration, one could describe learning about network vulnerabilities, or walking open directories or even guessing FTP passwords, or, SSH passwords.<p>I remember reading similar posts in the same time frame about older Internet users about the heydays of IRC and BBS&#x27;s and thought &quot;heh, that&#x27;s cute&quot; but now seeing this come full circle. Just wow.