[dav]

I'm pretty sure it was _why who set up the first darknet I was ever on. You had to set up your /etc/hosts and do some other tricks, to browse to hidden pages. Unless I'm confusing with another similar thing around the same time, there was some JS involved and you could find hidden features layered on regular websites.

[zem]

yep, "mousehole". it was used to effectively add a hidden comment section to random pages.

[hencq]

I remember that too, but I thought it was called hoodwinked or something close to that.

[lazyatom]

IIRC, mousehole was an alternative DNS system, and hoodwink'd was the hidden-content-layered-on-existing-websites.

[dav]

ah, yes! hoodwink.d rings a bell