Talk:Ted the Caver/@comment-24101463-20131027223707

I remember seeing this story on 7chan's /x/ years ago. It was actually taken from an anthology published in 1987, though interestingly that story was also set in 2000-2001, but apparently the author always set his stories in the near future. The original was also a bit different (different names, no mention of the internet etc), and also a ridiculous ending about some dead cowboy in the woods. I swear I once found a bookwarez of the anthology, complete with several other stories.

EXCEPT now I can only find a PDF of the story dated "1987-2004", and various blogs saying that actually it's 1987-ness was faked, and the website is the original version. Of course, the website also has photos which were not present in the original story, meaning some people did actually go down to a cave, find another passage, and worked their way into it.

I'll have to dig further and see if I can turn up the name of this supposed anthology, then ebay a copy for 1p and see what's really in it!