Before b3ta I was drawn into a website back in 2000ishcalled twentythree - now that REALLY was a strange site perfect for conspiracy lovers to try and work out. Pretty much that site led me to B3ta initially.
The best thing about it all is that now the site www.twentythree.co.uk/ is just some default low fi fish and chip shop website - like in the movies when you try and take someone back to show them the conspiracy and it's all been tidied away like it was never there. So they won't believe you and think you are crazy!
But then as you walk away dejected the camera lingers on one remaining piece of evidence that you missed.
www.twentythree.co.uk/bosch.html
Edit: Synchronicity was a huge aspect of the 23 thing, which is what the reply I make below alludes to happened when they live event was cancelled.
Just before this thread I posted this reply to a links thread www.b3ta.com/links/288362
'3. Fractal time and the I Ching
* 10,000 years ago humans began domesticating plants and animals.
* 500 years ago we invented the printing press.
* 100 years ago we began driving automobiles.
* 50 years ago we invented the computer.
* 30 years ago we landed on the moon.
Okay, but by that reckoning 20 years ago we should have landed on Jupiter. 10 years ago we should have begun riding unicorns and by now we should have evolved into care bears.'
A few hours later this is posted on the links board - www.b3ta.com/links/MIT_Technology_Turns_Humans_into_Carebears
!!??!! Oh god why do these things happen to me so much? :)
(The best thing about it all is that now the site www.twentythree.co.uk/ is just some default low fi fish and chip shop website - like in the movies when you try and take someone back to show them the conspiracy and it's all been tidied away like it was never there. So they won't believe you and think you are crazy!
But then as you walk away dejected the camera lingers on one remaining piece of evidence that you missed.
www.twentythree.co.uk/bosch.html
Edit: Synchronicity was a huge aspect of the 23 thing, which is what the reply I make below alludes to happened when they live event was cancelled.
Just before this thread I posted this reply to a links thread www.b3ta.com/links/288362
'3. Fractal time and the I Ching
* 10,000 years ago humans began domesticating plants and animals.
* 500 years ago we invented the printing press.
* 100 years ago we began driving automobiles.
* 50 years ago we invented the computer.
* 30 years ago we landed on the moon.
Okay, but by that reckoning 20 years ago we should have landed on Jupiter. 10 years ago we should have begun riding unicorns and by now we should have evolved into care bears.'
A few hours later this is posted on the links board - www.b3ta.com/links/MIT_Technology_Turns_Humans_into_Carebears
!!??!! Oh god why do these things happen to me so much? :)
Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology,
Tue 10 Mar 2009, 13:18,
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That has just proper shat me up:(
EDIT: And clicked. I want this on the popular page :D
(EDIT: And clicked. I want this on the popular page :D
Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!,
Tue 10 Mar 2009, 13:20,
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That's either the scariest thing everor some very very very clever marketing for a fish and chip shop!
(
Ril3y is a brit abroad.. bring on the Stella / Asahi,
Tue 10 Mar 2009, 13:22,
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Oh it was sooooooo much morethe messageboard was on a site called theclothesstore so there was if any the viral marketing side, only it was more just the owner of that site was friends with the people behind it and let them use the hosting.
Now, looking back I see it as an incredible ARG that wasn't an ARG like you know now because the term wasn't coined and it had no marketing function. It was just straight up mysterious. The KLF got me interested in the 23 thing and the illuminatus trilogy, but i wasn't deep into it all. It was something interesting though.
There's so much to this site and story I could write a book on it.
(Now, looking back I see it as an incredible ARG that wasn't an ARG like you know now because the term wasn't coined and it had no marketing function. It was just straight up mysterious. The KLF got me interested in the 23 thing and the illuminatus trilogy, but i wasn't deep into it all. It was something interesting though.
There's so much to this site and story I could write a book on it.
Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology,
Tue 10 Mar 2009, 13:27,
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HehGoogle thinks that this page is similar:
www.amazon.com/Key-Everything-Classic-Lesbian-Poems/dp/0312118422
Fantastic :)
(www.amazon.com/Key-Everything-Classic-Lesbian-Poems/dp/0312118422
Fantastic :)
brainstuff can eat a whole shredded wheat,
Tue 10 Mar 2009, 13:34,
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Damn I was trying to keep my pen namea secret
( Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology,
Tue 10 Mar 2009, 14:22,
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Here is a post of an event that totally blew peoples mindswww.theclothesstore.com/ubbzs/Forum8/HTML/000885.html
(the link above is different to the text in this post, the rest of this is background to let you know just how bizzare the events in the post were)
The site had a live chat thing you could use and people would shoot the breeze in there, on the 23rd of each month events started to happen. It was imposible to tell who was part of the site and who was just a participant. There was one person though - Scribe - who was the voice of the site. There'd be occasional webcasts of audio and choppy webcams of odd things.
Finally, after over a year of slow uncovering, discovery and friendships forming a small community built up around the site, and working out what the hell it was about and what it was there for. Scribe announced a LIVE event and that the people behind it did these live events as a seperate but related thing. We may get to descover some more details, great. A few people from 'the filter' (the chat room) had met up seperately or drawn friends in, but now was the chance for a lot of us to meet up.
This was before b3ta so anyone who's been to their first b3ta bash will know the feeling - only multiply it by 23.
So then this event gets cancelled mysteriously a few days before it was due. Bah it was just a tease. Oh well, several of us decided to meet up anyway in London. At a bar called The Foundry. (with super strong KLF connections)
That's the background, read the post now.
((the link above is different to the text in this post, the rest of this is background to let you know just how bizzare the events in the post were)
The site had a live chat thing you could use and people would shoot the breeze in there, on the 23rd of each month events started to happen. It was imposible to tell who was part of the site and who was just a participant. There was one person though - Scribe - who was the voice of the site. There'd be occasional webcasts of audio and choppy webcams of odd things.
Finally, after over a year of slow uncovering, discovery and friendships forming a small community built up around the site, and working out what the hell it was about and what it was there for. Scribe announced a LIVE event and that the people behind it did these live events as a seperate but related thing. We may get to descover some more details, great. A few people from 'the filter' (the chat room) had met up seperately or drawn friends in, but now was the chance for a lot of us to meet up.
This was before b3ta so anyone who's been to their first b3ta bash will know the feeling - only multiply it by 23.
So then this event gets cancelled mysteriously a few days before it was due. Bah it was just a tease. Oh well, several of us decided to meet up anyway in London. At a bar called The Foundry. (with super strong KLF connections)
That's the background, read the post now.
Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology,
Tue 10 Mar 2009, 13:36,
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There were maybe only about 20-30 people that followed and explored the sitesome from America and some as far as Japan. Who knows how many lurkers too.
About 7 or 8 of us were going to try and meet that night.
(About 7 or 8 of us were going to try and meet that night.
Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology,
Tue 10 Mar 2009, 14:09,
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Several others from there also became b3tansIt was a natural progression I think.
( Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology,
Tue 10 Mar 2009, 14:23,
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The thot plickens.I wonder if they sell jam sandwiches?
( brainstuff can eat a whole shredded wheat,
Tue 10 Mar 2009, 13:28,
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Yay, dna was where it began.There were 3 'gates' to work through on the site. I guess nowadays pretty basic puzzle solving, and trial/error. It wasn't meant to be a puzzle people could solve though. that was the beauty. It just was a mysterious garden you could wander around. Finding new areas, new flowers blooming as time went on.
( Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology,
Tue 10 Mar 2009, 14:05,
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Scribe and Alpha and Hooray and iivix, the Karma Mechanic and Pita too, Fnord goes without saying and not neglecting Alostrael, Albert Ross, Pyramid and Flux, Bubba and Linus and who was that other one...Oh yes -- Penny!
All scattered across the world by the winds of time, like seeds from a dandelion clock with 23 heads. No doubt all germinating new and even more invisible puzzles in our own small way.
I like to think and am certain it's so, that from some strange perspective there's a pattern in where we go.
Remember F., that if you say 'Eris' 23 times, she's sure to hear you. I promise it works, I've tried it. ;)
En passant,
Penny.
(,
Wed 11 Mar 2009, 23:51,
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All scattered across the world by the winds of time, like seeds from a dandelion clock with 23 heads. No doubt all germinating new and even more invisible puzzles in our own small way.
I like to think and am certain it's so, that from some strange perspective there's a pattern in where we go.
Remember F., that if you say 'Eris' 23 times, she's sure to hear you. I promise it works, I've tried it. ;)
En passant,
Penny.
Terrific!The first day in months I spend an hour or so on the main board and I found a Penny I thought i'd lost long ago.
Time to crack open a can to celebrate
(Time to crack open a can to celebrate
Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology,
Thu 12 Mar 2009, 8:14,
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