Of Son Of The Mask — Index

If you grew up in the early 2000s, you remember two things: dial-up internet and movie tie-in websites. But there is one search query that sends a very specific chill (or chuckle) down the spine of veteran web surfers: “Index of / Son of the Mask.”

Index of /wp-content/uploads/son_of_the_mask [PARENTDIR] Parent Directory [IMG] baby_cgi_v1.jpg 14-May-2005 22:13 88KB [IMG] loki_makeup.jpg 14-May-2005 22:13 112KB [AVI] trailer_480p.avi 15-May-2005 03:22 22MB [MOV] clip_dog_chase.mov 16-May-2005 11:04 45MB [TXT] press_kit_notes.txt 16-May-2005 12:01 4KB [ZIP] masks_designs.zip 17-May-2005 09:22 6MB index of son of the mask

To the uninitiated, it looks like a typo. To the initiated, it is a digital time capsule of failure, compression artifacts, and early internet lawlessness. If you grew up in the early 2000s,