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Origins of In-game Web Sites

Some very clever people have done some digging and discovered all sorts of information about the behind-the-cyber-scenes of the puzzle.

iansgrl1posted:

  <<<Mr23bean posted this on the official board:>>>

  Eric Scott registered the following domain names -

  Creditdauphine.com
  Find-whatever.com
  www.dayfornight.com
  thefollowersoframbaldi.org
  followersoframbaldi.org
  followers-of-rambaldi.org
  the-followers-of-rambaldi.org
  thetruewheel.com
  rambaldi.org
nit-picker.com
jenningsaero.com
jenningsaerospace.com

Registrant:
Day For Night
801 Idaho Ave. #21
Santa Monica, CA 90403
US

Domain Name: CREDITDAUPHINE.COM

Administrative Contact:
 Scott, Eric dayfornight@dayfornight.com
 801 Idaho Ave. #21
Santa Monica, CA 90403
US
3103933840

Technical Contact:
 Hostmaster, NSSB support@web66.com
 3972 Waterman Ave. Suite 205
San Bernardino, CA 92404
US
 909 883 2083

Billing Contact:
 Scott, Eric dayfornight@dayfornight.com
801 Idaho Ave. #21
Santa Monica, CA 90403
US
3103933840

Record last updated on 22-Oct-2001.
Record expires on 22-Aug-2002.
Record Created on 22-Aug-2001.

Domain servers in listed order:
NS.ROUTE66.NET 216.202.16.2
NS2.ROUTE66.NET 216.202.16.3

Nothing directly links Credit Dauphine directly to ABC, but it obviously is a part of their site as they have direct links to it in the form of e-mail addresses.

Also, an email listed on the rambaldi posting board, LichtUndBlindheit@thetruewheel.com, translates to "light and blindness" on the altavista translation engine (some play off day and night).

jodievt_98 12/20/01 8:43 am

  I was watching Felicity last night (YES, I ADMIT IT), and Noel Crane got his first website design job from an "Eric Scott". For those of you who don't know J.J. Abrams is the creator for both Felicty and Alias. Also, Eric Scott (of day for night!) designed www.noelcrane.com.

nightspd

Info for SydneyBristow.com

Registrant:
  Contact e-mail address for info.
  Hot site
  Tallahassee, FL 32303
  US

  Domain Name: SYDNEYBRISTOW.COM

  Administrative Contact:
     Hot Site, Manager  hotsite@ureach.com
     Hot site
     Tallahassee, FL 32303
     US
     877-875-3635

  Technical Contact:
     Hot Site, Manager  hotsite@ureach.com
     Hot site
     Tallahassee, FL 32303
     US
     877-875-3635

  Billing Contact:
     Hot Site, Manager  hotsite@ureach.com
     Hot site
     Tallahassee, FL 32303
     US
     877-875-3635

  Record last updated on 22-Sep-2001.
  Record expires on 22-Sep-2002.
  Record Created on 22-Sep-2001.

  Domain servers in listed order:
     NS0.DIRECTNIC.COM   66.79.10.199
     NS1.DIRECTNIC.COM   64.38.245.203

zephyr_hex

  FYI:

  http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.creditdauphine.com

  The site www.creditdauphine.com is running Apache/1.3.14 (Unix)
  PHP/4.0.5-dev mod_ssl/2.7.1 OpenSSL/0.9.6 on FreeBSD.

switchflipper

  There seems to be a whole bunch of directories
  on that server that we can't access.

  http://209.61.191.196/temp4314401/ the one that was given
  http://209.61.191.196/temp4314400/
  http://209.61.191.196/temp4314402/
  http://209.61.191.196/temp4314403/
  http://209.61.191.196/temp4314404/
  http://209.61.191.196/temp4314405/
  http://209.61.191.196/temp4314406/

  They return a 403 (Forbidden) error. Probably shouldn't
  worry too much about those directories. Just FYI.
 

 Search Results Jennings Aerospace.com (by nightspd)

 Registrant:
  Day For Night
  801 Idaho Ave. #21
  Santa Monica, CA 90403
  US

  Domain Name: JENNINGSAEROSPACE.COM

  Sponsoring Reseller; for Technical Support
  with respect to this domain contact:
     NSSB, support@web66.com
     909 883 2083

  Administrative Contact:
     Scott, Eric  dayfornight@dayfornight.com
     801 Idaho Ave. #21
     Santa Monica, CA 90403
     US
     3103933840

  Technical Contact:
     Hostmaster, NSSB  support@web66.com
     3972 Waterman Ave.
     Suite 205
     San Bernardino, CA 92404
     US
     909 883 2083

  Billing Contact:
     Scott, Eric  dayfornight@dayfornight.com
     801 Idaho Ave. #21
     Santa Monica, CA 90403
     US
     3103933840

  Record last updated on 21-Nov-2001.
  Record expires on 04-Sep-2002.
  Record Created on 04-Sep-2001.

  Domain servers in listed order:
     NS.ROUTE66.NET   216.202.16.2
     NS2.ROUTE66.NET   216.202.16.3

zephyr_hex  Mon Feb 18, 2002  7:51 am
 TraceRoute to 212.24.32.203  [kdir-0.chat.ru]
 Hop (ms) (ms) (ms) IP Address
 Host name <snip>
15 1609 1438 1453 195.161.161.5
 bb-pos1-1-155m.moscow.rostelecom.ru

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phone: 17735095118
  menu:
  7 -review message
  3 -discard message and record over
  2 -append to message and continue recording
  9 -deliver message and exit the system <-- then
  press 7 to get to message center immediately before
  they hangup "goodbye"
  0 -hello, please enter your passcode.
  * -hello, please enter your passcode

  # -after entering passcode, press this

  passcode right now is 4 to 5 digits since the voicemailbox said
  it didn't recognize it before i pressed the 6th consecutive digit.

signalost

  As far as the 773 number goes, the voicemailbox's dial by name feature appears part of a business sounding somewhat like Shyco Inc Northwest. Someone might want to look up  similar companies to see if it's game related or if we are off  "the course" on this approach.

  Doing this dial by name pattern: 21 32 43 54 65 76 87 98 89
  78 67 56 45 34 23 12
  you sometimes get same the mailbox with a different number paired combo.

  Results from doing those numbers(more than one numbered pair set may get the same box):

  4 3 heather shyco inc
  5 4 jim
  6 5 will
  8 7 vince
  9 8 dana with shyco northwest
  4 5 susane for shyco

  However, so far the mailbox number for the morse code box itself hasn't been found.   Also inputting the numbers from the computer voice to the dial-by-name feature hasn't been done yet: 13 15 28 5 18 <--  the 5 isn't in a pair, so perhaps this isn't relevant. But again might have to see if it may have something to it.

zephyr_hex

  i did a reverse lookup on the number. it either is an unlisted number, or it's not in service.   http://www.numberfinder.com/

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 Mandaking2000

Entertainment Weekly
issue: December 07, 2001

Credit Check
EW Gets the Stories Behind Those Goofy TV Production-Company Logos

True TV Buffs realize that no episode was complete until those immortal words "Sit, Ubu, sit. Good dog" were uttered. Producers have always used creative production-company logos to spice up those boring end credits. And here are four of this season's finest final chapters. - Nicholas Fonseca (additional reporting by Jeff Jensen)

ALIAS (ABC)

COMPANY
Bad Robot

IMAGE
Against a stormy backdrop. a boy runs by, a rickety robot glides on screen, and two kids' voices cry "Baaad robot!"

MEANING
The title came to creator J.J. Abrams during a writers' meeting, and he recorded his children, Henry and Gracie (ages 2 and 3), saying the words into his Powerbook's microphone. "That day in the office while editing," says Abrams, "I put together sound effects on my computer, burned a QuickTime movie on a CD, gave it to postproduction, and three days later it was on national television."



Origins of In-game Web Sites
signalost

  Just to recap, and it is old news, but might be worth noting
  and classifying in a post/thread... It appears that almost(if not
  every) majorly important in-game webpage is a version from
  an original or group of original pages.

  http://Find-whatever.com is a mock http://Altavista.com,
  http://Creditdauphine.com is very much like Societe Generale
  with employee connections to a Dauphine University in Paris
  (numerous pages like: http://sg-defirecruit.com ),
  http://Geocities.com/Rulerfrog is a http://DrudgeReport.com,
  the http://FollowersofRambaldi.org content is an
  amalgamation of content from various secret society
  webpages...(as mentioned in the FAQ and in the posts)

  For instance, a friend of mine happened to find this page, as I
  would assume others did too:

  http://oneworldorder.org/About.htm
  The Illuminati Order was formed 300 years ago by a group
  of individuals... etc (read the page to see very similar-if not
  copied and pasted and altered- content).
  At the bottom it says:
  NOTE: If you have questions such as "Why should I join,
  what will I get out of it?" DO NOT JOIN us. Those types of
  persons are NOT welcome.

  versus

  http://followersoframbaldi.org/followers.html
  The Followers Of Rambaldi is a private Order formed 300
  years ago by a group of individuals...etc.
  The Puzzle FAQ also has a copy of the old Join Us content
  which stated:
  "NOTE: If you have questions such as "Why should I join,
  what will I get out of it?" DO NOT JOIN us. Those types of
  persons are NOTwelcome. "

  And not to mention, Project Haze was basically altered
  MKULTRA Project documents.

  comments:
  As you may see, the pages do not seem to be original in style
  or content but derivatives for the purpose of the game.
  Perhaps the game will continue to follow this sort of mirrored
  style? Perhaps there are even more similarities in the puzzle
  than we are currently aware of. Very eclectic, but not as
  original as one might immediately believe.

  With many elements in common, Alias as a whole appears to
  be a sort of false front, arguably and questionably bordering
  plagiarism in various areas (La Femme Nikita?). However it
  is still depthly intriguing and potentially more complex than
  most -if not all- new shows currently airing.



mottjr2001  2/6/02 8:11 am

Some additional seaching lead me to this address (www.thewatcherz.com) which is hosted by Yahoo. The domain is registered to jesse alexander who is a supervising producer for Alias. Interestingly, the registration address is in Studio City, which is the first one I've seen that doesn't link directly back to Eric Scott and dayfornight. The admin e-mail is listed as rulerfrog@thewatcherz.com I tried to ftp at this address and got nothing. Maybe someone else will have better luck.

Domain Name.......... thewatcherz.com
                Creation Date........ 2001-12-20
                Registration Date.... 2001-12-20
                Expiry Date.......... 2002-12-20
                Organisation Name.... Jesse Alexander
                Organisation Address. 4302 Wilkinson Avenue
                Organisation Address.
                Organisation Address. Studio City
                Organisation Address. 91604
                Organisation Address. CA
                Organisation Address. UNITED STATES

              Admin Name........... Jesse Alexander
                Admin Address........ 4302 Wilkinson Avenue
                Admin Address........
                Admin Address........ Studio City
                Admin Address........ 91604
                Admin Address........ CA
                Admin Address........ UNITED STATES
                Admin Email.......... rulerfrog@thewatcherz.com
                Admin Phone.......... 818-560-7071
                Admin Fax............

              Tech Name............ YahooDomains Techcontact
                Tech Address......... 701 First Ave.
                Tech Address.........
                Tech Address......... Sunnyvale
                Tech Address......... 94089
                Tech Address......... CA
                Tech Address......... UNITED STATES
                Tech Email........... domain.tech@YAHOO-INC.COM
                Tech Phone........... +161.98813096
                Tech Fax.............
                Name Server.......... ns8.san.yahoo.com
                Name Server.......... ns9.san.yahoo.com



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