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Yay, we saved the world by overloading it!

Peoples curiosity and fucktardness saved the day!

This should be made into an e-holiday to celabrate errr... uhh... a comlete craze over nothing....?

crap! the nuclear killer crabs with computer viruses in them are coming!

How did I know that it would be lame. It was a fun waste of time though.

I'm not getting anything from eon8.com on port 80, but their SSH connection is strongly alive. Also, pinging eon8.com returns a healthy ping.

They took the site down on purpose.

EON 8 DEPLOYED

At 6/30/06 11:58 PM, bigbadron wrote: keep it here. all other threads will be destroyed.

Aww man.
See you in </insert ban> days

{eon8} Complete
As of July 1st, 2006, the E8 Project has completed.
The purpose of this project was to determine the reactions of the internet public to lack of information.
History
The domain eon8.com was chosen, as it is short, easily remembered, and eon9 was already registered.
It was originally posted on www.msfn.org, but was promptly removed as 'spam'. It was enough time for it to be copied to other forums throughout December 2005.
Results
We were amazed to discover that the site was instantly linked with terrorism, simply for the fact that it seems mysterious. Evil was the number one first impression people had of the site, in spite of the fact that there are no threats on the site. The only thing Eon 8 says is "We don't want you here". Nothing else.
Other less disappointing opinions were social experimentation (which was correct), James Bond movie viral marketing, and promotions for video games.
For many people, being faced with a countdown timer was an instant reason to try to shut down or hack the site. This is a worrying reaction, that if someone doesn't understand something they must destroy it. As a result, the servers have been hit quite hard these last few days, but luckily 99% of the 'hackers' could easily be described as 'l4me n00bs'.
Another worrying example of paranoia was how quickly people would jump to conclusions, such as telephoning the registered owner of a dog seen in a photograph on a server that hosts a page that links to eon8.
Surprises
The folks at Unfiction.com were the most resourceful and inventive, they successfully managed to decrypt several of the 'codes' on the site, forcing them to be re-encrypted using more secure methods.
FAQ
What about eon5.com?
Nothing to do with us. Pure coincidence, but worked in our favor.

What about the 8th eon being the end of the world?
We picked Eon 8 because Eon 9 was already taken. We didn't know about the significance of this. Eon is a cool sounding word!

Why July 1st?
We didn't know how long it would take to get the word out using our subtle promotion methods. We allowed over 6 months.

What do the codes on the site mean?
They're mostly randomly generated integers encrypted with md5, but with certain letters removed and replaced. The Logs page is simply based on the current timestamp, encrypted and modified. You can't decrypt them, they really are random numbers.

What is the Deployment Map?
They're dots placed over major cities and several random locations, it was done mostly from memory. The random gif filename is an added touch to force a slight delay on loading, which looks more impressive in Internet Explorer, but not as much in Firefox.

What's the password?
There isn't one. If you did somehow manage to get in, you'd see an empty folder with a single text file that says "This is a decoy folder. Please connect to the internal secure network".

Can I see your website statistics?
Yes, click here.

Are you anything to do with Scientology?
Did you see anything talking about a Free Personality Test or Xenu? Use your brain.

Who are you, really?
The most I can tell you is I am a 23 year old web designer from Florida named Mike. I can't narrow it down anymore than that. When I say 'we', I really mean 'me'.
Conclusions
People take things too seriously and panic over the most trivial things. But at the same time there are many people out there who think things through without jumping to conclusions. You can't let pointless speculation rule your lives and force you to live in fear.
In Closing
Thanks to everyone who kept things interesting, especially to the folks at unfiction. Sorry there is no ARG for you to play, but at least you had fun while it lasted.

Click here for one Final Message from Eon 8

BE HAPPY
THE END
Sincerely, x21b

This may or may not be the fastest growing topic in NG history.

At 7/1/06 12:05 AM, RyanKajito wrote:

At 7/1/06 12:02 AM, -VividCG- wrote: OMG! we were all owned

Is that real?

im sorry, we did totally waste 5 hours of our lives for a hoax XD

And I wanted a pet platypus, all I got was a connection time out. :(

OH SHIT the real problem isn't eon8, it's...

ZOMFG NOT AGAIN

yay now wtf happened?

At 7/1/06 12:04 AM, The_answer_AI wrote: Oh my god.....................I hear the missiles

Lol just now, a big truck went by and i thought it was one.

Swell, the fucking hoax fad is over with.

Proves you all, idiots. Nothing bad happened.

Its okay people, we'll all die once the server is back up and running. eon8 thanks for your patience and cooperation.

So... what's the "truth?"

At 7/1/06 12:06 AM, DancingTomato wrote: EON 8 DEPLOYED

OMGOMGOMG I WANNA CLICK TEH LINK >:(>:(>:(

http://www.eon8.com/deployed21b.php

^^

We're still here. I got the CDs. ^_^ *has party CDs*

I actually crapped my pants because the tv went static at the moment. Turned out to be a coincidence, though.

At 7/1/06 12:05 AM, EagleRock wrote: They took the site down on purpose.

I was about to say that...

I saw this comming since the begining...

At 7/1/06 12:03 AM, chocolate_penguin wrote: Ha, the attention whores didn't get to comnplete their evil scheme for being to..err--attention-grabbing successful.

Luckily for me, though, I get to die 3 hours after all of you because it is 9:04 right here.

You're a fucking moron. It counts down and ends at different times everywhere, but all at the same time.

Which means it would've ended the world at 9 p.m. where you are. 11 p.m. here, and midnight in Texas. But it would've executed at the same time in the entire scheme of things.

Reveal the truth !!!

Just wait for the FRUIT FLIES! THE FRUIT FLIIIIIEEES!

At 7/1/06 12:06 AM, General_Ivan wrote: ZOMFG NOT AGAIN

Here we go again.

Trojans are overrated, all the cool kids use The PokeCon!http://www.jlist.com/PRODUCT/TY840

That sucked cock.

At 7/1/06 12:07 AM, gamegrrl wrote: We're still here. I got the CDs. ^_^ *has party CDs*

Maybe we should live like there's no tommorrow.

I'm up for an orgy.

i fucking love you mike

mike>humankind