Eon8 - What is this?

madc0w · Post by **madc0w** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 9:24 pm

29 for me. the point is that it will update at 12 and it will refresh then. ending early will do anything. also, one guy said it was his thesis

HomicidalBarber · Post by **HomicidalBarber** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 9:25 pm

mine still has 9 hours what the heck, Im on west coast US, but thats a huge time difference

madc0w · Post by **madc0w** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 9:27 pm

is your bios clock set right? Thats what it goes off.

Motoman · Post by **Motoman** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 9:29 pm

Mine is 22 minutes and 26 seconds. This is really wierd.....

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 9:39 pm

I have 12 minutes, so i better emulate before i die, or better yet call my girl-friend over.

madc0w · Post by **madc0w** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 9:52 pm

mine cant connect now! DAMNIT!
EDIT:

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

DAYUM

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 10:06 pm

Something happened!

My Wiiner fell off

Big-O · Post by **Big-O** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 10:09 pm

No, I have a friend who told me it was a social experiment, that was supposed to freak out everyone on the internet and make you think something bad was going to happen. I have the moral here.

DON'T BELIVE WHAT THEY TELL YOU ON THE INTERNET.

teraflop122 · Post by **teraflop122** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 10:28 am

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".

Unfortunately for this guy's thesis, "We don't want you here" is an inherently negative comment, and therefor threatening. A truly neutral comment would be more like "who are you?" or "the sky is blue." A positive comment might look something like, "we welcome you."

demonofaj · Post by **demonofaj** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 10:40 am

So in the end, this was all based on our curiosity.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 10:46 am

Nothing happened. At least the webmaster liked NEDM.

Krepticor · Post by **Krepticor** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 12:18 pm

Gosh this was stupid...

Always have a sie with reputable sources and links to higher authorities in the scientific community