{eon8} <- Anyone heard of it?

[Bryon]

I came across a submitted site on Digg.com a little while ago, and I've found it kind of interesting.

Site: http://www.eon8.com
Digg.com Link: http://digg.com/programming/what_is_eon8_and_what_is_x13600
YTMND Link (Explaining it's "background"): http://eon8theinvestigation.ytmnd.com/
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=14673&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Anyone else heard of it? No one seems to have any idea what it's counting down to.. I find it kind of creepy.

 

[dharmil]

i think its all fake some one trying to trick us all

 

[The_Magistrate]

Ditto on the creepyness. I gotta remember to check the site tomorrow and see what happens.

Update: I've been trying to collect links from some of the sites around the net which reference eon8. I'll post a list in a little bit.

EDIT: I've made a list... some pretty weird stuff. If you're a pseudo-conspiracy theorist like me, your mind is buzzing!!

Of course, there is a wikipedia entry for it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eon8

Definition of the 8th celestial eon
http://www.khaldea.com/eon/eon8.shtml

Email from someone inside eon8?
http://eon8whatthehellisit.blogspot.com/

Dead site somehow related to eon8? Moo.html?
http://www.digitdreams.com/

Domain information about eon8
http://whois.domaintools.com/Eon8.com

A shoutcast server on eon8?
http://www.eon8.com:8000

After clicking on the "Stream URL" link, it brings up
http://www.notebookinhand.com

Site belonging to the owner of notebookinhand.com
http://www.chrisrossi.com/

Hm their site is slow at loading.. did they run out of bandwidth? Lol.

Nope, the site was hit by the digg effect. It is slow because so many people are accessing it. We'll see what happens tomorrow night though.

 

[swirly]

come on guys remember your science! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eon_(geology) tells u about eons, or otherwise known as aeons. but i dont know wat the 8 is for....cause it def aint 8th eon... must be a worldwide scheme/phenomenon....

 

[Spartan Erik]

Hm their site is slow at loading.. did they run out of bandwidth? Lol.

If anybody feels like reading more, here's a WHOIS:
Registrant:
Domains by Proxy, Inc.

DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: EON8.COM
Created on: 20-Dec-05
Expires on: 20-Dec-06
Last Updated on: 09-Jan-06

Administrative Contact:
Private, Registration EON8.COM@domainsbyproxy.com
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
(480) 624-2599

Technical Contact:
Private, Registration EON8.COM@domainsbyproxy.com
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
(480) 624-2599

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.BBHOSTS.NET
NS2.BBHOSTS.NET
NS3.BBHOSTS.NET
NS4.BBHOSTS.NET
NS5.BBHOSTS.NET


Registry Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
Registry Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Registry Status: clientRenewProhibited
Registry Status: clientTransferProhibited
Registry Status: clientUpdateProhibited

Maybe a count down to some kind of new domain thing?

 

[Bryon]

There's a big discussion going on irc://irc.usrv.de, channel #eon8, about this.

 

[jensen]

So what's so special about eon8? Seems like a cleverly coded website. Almost like hack-in-the-box program. With the number of hours counting down. It says 19 hours and counting.

 

[The_Magistrate]

I've setup a list of the information I've gathered from around the web and included a bunch of links to sites about it.

It seems that a lot of people are intreagued by this. While the common consensus is that it is a viral marketing campaign, I believe otherwise... why the poorly coded site? Why advertise for an advertisment?

Oh well, check it out on my blog.

 

[Chris Z]

wtf that's crazy, obviously i wonder if anyone is taking interest in this or actually believe it, i think it's quite creepy that the red dots could resemble missle silos or nuclear power plants, because i have seen the hit show "24" and i believe it's the 4th season that the whole big act of the muslim terrorists blowing up our nuclear power plants. Also, the virus would be creepy because there is also a virus in that season that obviously corrupts the databases of the nuclear power plants, so anyone else got anything to say abuot this, i think it's just a hoax to get people interested in their site but who knows..?

 

[Spartan Erik]

I've setup a list of the information I've gathered from around the web and included a bunch of links to sites about it.

It seems that a lot of people are intreagued by this. While the common consensus is that it is a viral marketing campaign, I believe otherwise... why the poorly coded site? Why advertise for an advertisment?

Oh well, check it out on my blog.

Lol I like your blog post about WarGames; that was the best old-school hacking movie I've ever seen.. such a classic.

Well 12 hours to go.. we'll find out what this eon8 thing is about soon..
I'm 99% sure that this is an advertising campaign, or something similar to Bungie's "I Love Bees" plot.

 

[Chris Z]

wow i'm listening to rush limbaugh's talkshow right now and he says there is some asteroid SUPPOSED to just barely miss us on monday..but i don't think that's quite what eon8 is about, since the time is off

edit-anyone got a comment about this, shuold i create a new thread abuot this?

 

[bigguy]

Seen this yet:

http://eon8theinvestigation.ytmnd.com/

 

[bigguy]

Here`s a bit of info:

http://whois.domaintools.com/Eon8.com

 

[The_Magistrate]

Yeah, the asteroid idea has been brought up a few times, but it is generally discarded, since the counter ends tonight and the asteroid isn't until monday.

Geoff, if you go to my blog, you can see all that information, plus a whole lot more.

 

[Sheepoholics]

http://eon8timer.ytmnd.com/


This made me laugh uncontrolably.

 

[Tyler]

it was just a social experiment... http://silvrlabs.com/deployed21b.php.html - a mirror to eon8.com before it went down.

 

[The_Magistrate]

Yeah, I updated my blog with the latest info.

http://alex.elementfx.com/archives/2006/07/01/and-so-the-eon8-ruse-ends/

If anyone has a link to the mp3 on a different server, please PM it to me, so I can post it.

 

[Alejandro]

So I guess it was just to test us the way they did. lol

 

[Chris Z]

nice lol i knew it was just a hoax to get people to their site

 

[Alejandro]

nice lol i knew it was just a hoax to get people to their site

I thought so but wans't sure what it could be.