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[META][TIMELINE] Player activity Noob Go Here
Reposted in Reference Thread Stickie

Unofficial 1-18-08 Timeline
(As discovered on UF)

PHOTO ADDITIONS FOR 1-18 AT A GLANCE:

JULY 3, 2007 - Already on site
JULY 6, 2007 - 2nd photo added (+3d)
JULY 12, 2007 - 3rd photo added (+6d)
JULY 20, 2007 - 4th photo added (+8d)



JULY 3, 2007

Mysterious trailer for an upcoming JJ Abrams movie airs in theaters immediately before Transformers movie begins, to be in theaters 1-18-08

_ZD begins new thread for 1-18-08 Possible New Arg/Puzzle
-www.1-18-08.com website discovered
-site consists of black background and one digital photograph of what appears to be half facial shots of two women gazing up at something and appearing to be in distress. Time/date stamp reads: 01/18/2008 12:36A
Full page is flash; photo can be moved around the screen, the purpose of which is unknown
-WHOIS reveals contact information: Admin contact: Henry Kelvin located in NY; Albert Pike located in Virginia

"Guest" shares speculation the trailer is a teaser for a movie being referred to as Cloverfield and filmed Blair Witch style.
-Initial attempts at analyzing the digital photo on 1-18 produce little to no return other than raising speculation about possibility the image is one face split in two, and possibility strange anomaly between faces is some creature.
{Both speculations have been collectively dismissed and no longer a focus of the purpose of the photo; some residual speculation remains as whether either is valid}


JULY 4, 2007

Tinag222 notes 1-18-08 site is using urchin-tracker, a google analytics stat tracker; provides a wiki link for Bad Robot Productions - owned by JJ Abrams - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Robot_Productions



JULY 5, 2007

samson120 notes that the admin and tech in the WHOIS for 1-18-08 site share the same phone number, despite being in two different states
-adds a link for information regarding Albert Pike, revealing the obvious false information contained in the WHOIS -notes that the NY address for Henry Kelvin is false and that E9th is about 3 miles from the Statue Of Liberty {aka SOL}

Cyph3r notes that the phone number provided for Kelvin and Pike resolves to the Santa Monica airport's automated aviation/weather service

Blue K notes that both Henry and Kelvin are characters from JJ Abrams hit series Lost
-also notes it is rumored to be a super-secret film being directed by J.J. Abrams. It's being made in NYC with mostly unknown actors and the entire film will be shown from the point of view of hand held video cameras...much like Blair Witch.

brooklahn confirms Henry Kelvin's address to be a fake as there is no such address in NY; buildings are numbered 1-100 on 9th st

samson120 notes that resolving domain 1-18-08 reveals the IP belongs to Paramount and linked to deploy.akamaitechnologies.com - Akamai which provides many IT and media services

AthensDawgs provides crosslink in researching Albert Pike connection and reports that Albert Pike is also registered contact for sectorseven.org (ARG for Transformers) and the same contact information is being used for S7 as is used in 1-18-08.com, proving the first confirmed crosslink and highly suggestive the same individuals behind S7 are also behind 1-18-08; supported by the convenient placement of the mystery trailer immediately before the Transformers movie
-http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=sectorseven.org
-notes that Clover Field was the original name of Santa Monica airport.
Source confirmed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Monica_Airport

MasterExploder provides confirmation link for the Barker Hangar - Santa Monica Air Center Atis. (310) 450-4620 www.barkerhangar.com/smac.htm

notethanhaas posts a link suggesting ethanhaaswasright.com is related to mystery movie dubbed Cloverfield, yet provides no source for this link, and basically all hell breaks loose and the original thread begins feeding on its own momentum as the frenzy of The Great EHWR Debate erupts

TehSpectre reports numerous rumors that Paramount is removing EHWR videos we well as the Cloverfield bootleg trailer making its rounds on YouTube, further fueling the assumption EHWR is somehow related to the Cloverfield mystery movie.


JULY 6, 2007

Tinag222 provides link referencing Ethan Haas to be a character on a CBS program called The Class, played by actor Jason Ritter and questions how that ties EHWR to Cloverfield. The debate rages on.

KLind reports that 1-18-08.com website has been updated: added is a second digital photograph, Time/Date stamped 01/18/2008 12:01A, noting the 35 minute time difference between photos, effectively quelling
suggestions the timestamp on the first photo was a veiled biblical reference to Revelations; photo depicts a still shot of 5 characters shown in the trailer, one of whom appears to be feeding Rob (main dude) a drink {NOTE for you under the age of 21 - the drink in question is almost certainly an alcoholic drink as there was much alcohol made available at the party - it was not a frozen slushie, knock it off}

Apogee provides links to both of the photos and reports that there is no 3rd photo available. The search for hidden puzzles, codes, stegs, et al begins
-http://www.1-18-08.com/images/pic_1.swf
-http://www.1-18-08.com/images/pic_2.swf
-No http://www.1-18-08.com/images/pic_3.swf yet.

wasp2020 notes that by right-clicking black space on the 1-18-08 site, the flash menu appears and by clicking "play" (or copy) another pair of the same photos appears below; like being able to move the photos around the page, the purpose for the copies is unknown

Tinag222 predicts the clue lies in the timestamp suggesting a timeline of events, and that more photos will appear on the 1-18 site {had to be done ;-p}
-also reports that when the page is refreshed, the same photos appear in a different arrangement, always with the 2nd photo of the party shot on top of the 1st photo of the 2 females

madeillegal reports a curious find with the photos on the 1-18 site: that after moving the photos around, one or both of them begin to tick/rotate; the purpose of this is unknown
-debate begins on whether these anomalies are deliberately installed in the coding, or if they are simply flash glitches
-unpurposed notes that the photos tick/rotate counter-clockwise as well

Tinag222 suggest the connection between the events of the trailer, and the photos on the 1-18 site that were not shown in the trailer, the time/date stamps appears to be a timeline of events


JULY 7, 2007

nightowl3090 posts informtation obtained by someone he knows who lives in LA, in which friend spotted a sign regarding a filmshoot dubbed "slusho" and crossreferenced with an IMDB report that another name for JJ Abrams secret movie is "Slusho"

Tinag222 reports having sent emails to both Henry Kelvin and "Albert Pike" named in the WHOIS for the 1-18 site, requesting general information about the website {NOTE: as of July 13, no reply from either, however I was not expecting one from Pike regardless and am relieved I did not get one.}

JULY 8, 2007

No leads, no breakthroughs....however the original thread experiences a 40+ page surge in 24 hours.

JULY 9, 2007

"Guest" appears and posts a link to what appears to be a high resolution "official" style release of the mystery trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/11808 and then disappears, provoking an eruption of renewed "frame by frame, still shot by still shot" analysis of the trailer. Whoever you were, Guest, we heartily thank you for that contribution.

Grist produces the first solid lead in the goose-chase by pointing out that the guy in the trailer who asked if they thought they could see something from the roof, is wearing a tshirt with a Slusho! logo; Grist checks out a
website for www.slusho.com which resolves again to www.slusho.jp

JHarmon notes that the movies is being filmed using the name Slusho and that Slusho is a (fictional) drink that was featured in another JJ Abrams series called 'Alias' ...also points out the site is in English and Japanese, which is very similar to the strong Asian elements shown throughout the trailer
-sends email to Slusho and receives an autoreply that says: "Slusho! loves your mails!! You Can't Drink Just Six!!!"

SnowDrop04 provides WHOIS information showing Satoshi Kagashima as the registrant, tech, and admin contact for the website
-website for the fictional drink featured in an Abrams show last year was shown to have been created May 4, 2007, all but confirming the in-game connection between the Slusho! and 1-18-08.com websites.

Analysis of the Slusho! website for in game clues or leads begins with a fury. The original thread grows another 50 pages overnight. Gamejack websites spring up for Cloverfield as they had for EHWR in attempt to get in on the action and are almost instantly exposed as frauds.

"Guest" appears and provides a link to Aint It Cool News http://www.aintitcool.com/node/33261 in which it was reported that JJ Abrams had sent an email to AICN's owner Harry Knowles, confirming that there is more than just 1-18 online, more fun stuff is to be had, that (at the time the email was written) all that had been found was 1-18, and officially confirming once and for all that Ethan Haas and related sites have nothing to do with this project.

Tinag222, in an attempt to confirm the validity of both the site and alleged email from Abrams did send an email to Harry Knowles of AICN and later received a reply stating Knowles has interviewed Abrams for 9 years and the email is legitimate.
{NOTE: while it can always be debated as to the legitimacy of the ACIN website or owner, this is up to your own discretion; the website in other respects appears credible and disputing it further would mean either Knowles lied or Abrams lied, neither of which would make any sense and would stand to tarnish the reputations and credibility of either. The general consensus on this matter is that it is accepted as a credible source and confirmed EHWR has never been related as most people figured out already anyway. While you are free to disregard this and continue suggesting otherwise, your choir at this stage is pretty small.}

Various reports posted on UF and other blogs of curious pulsating/flickering/shaking (tremors!) of the two photos on the 1-18 site happening in an apparently random fashion, the purpose of which is unknown.
-also reported a behind the scenes adjustment to 1-18 that removed the ability to make copies or bring up menu; purpose of which is unknown


JULY 10,2007

No updates, leads, breakthroughs on either site; thread grows another 50 pages overnight with mostly aimless speculation as frustration for a lead grows.


JULY 11, 2007
First reports come in that subtle additions have been made to the Slusho! website - the addition of a group of birds in V formation moving across the downloads page

JULY 12, 2007
1-18-08 website is updated with the addition of a 3rd photograph set atop the first two with the Date/Time stamp reading 01/18/2008 12:48A and depicts in the foreground 2 girls with their hands covering their mouths, and 2 vague male figures in the background who appear to be running; all appear to be in thick smoke, haze, fog - or it could be lighteffects
-http://www.1-18-08.com/images/pic_3.swf


UF Mod/s finally move the original and recently created reference threads to "Args with potential."



JULY 20, 2007

4th photo is added to the 1-18-08.com site. Showing 3 individuals in the foreground and a faint 4th individual in the background. Woman on the right appears to be running toward camera perspective, but to the right. What looks like a second female on the left, wearing dark clothing and a hat of some sort, facing camera perspective. In the center is an armed soldier standing sideling to the camera perspective, and turned to look away from the camera. Background is part of a blue vehicle.

The date/time stamp reads: 01/18/2008 1:24A. Quality is slightly burred









TRIVIA: Original thread has reached, and will no doubt exceed 157 pages

Redux x100: in the time it took to edit a few typos and return to the index page, thread in question reaches 160 pages.....

Analysis continues

Tinag222 is found slumped over her keyboard, her eyes having oozed from their sockets after actually sifting throught 157 ages of mostly crap in order to bring you all a timeline covering 9 friggin days.... Razz

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(moderator wanted to clarify that this isn't a timeline of ingame events or story progression, but of our forum's activity and player experiences; subject line could use some refinement, and another timeline thread will be needed for when more of the movie shots appear -- catherwood)

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Bump

It's just as easy to click this one as it is to click the one with 400 pages so you don't have to go 'uh this is 400 pages and I'm not reading all that so what all's happened?'

Here ya go.

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i'm pretty sure that when i checked the 1-18-08.com page on july 4th while there was only one picture, the picture was centred in the page and not moveable. When you right clicked, you could check the properties like with any image. It was not until a second picture was added that they became moveable, and the right click menu was changed to reflect that of a flash player rather than an image.

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When they updated the Flash (which, as has been stated, needs to be done every time a new picture is added), they added a line to disable the context menu.

Don't see why they did that other than to annoy us. Then again, only the tech savvy know a way around that to get the true imagesd, and "tech savviness" doesn't seem to be that much of a prerequisite in these things.

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Maybe they removed the context menu in order to remove confusion? People were thinking that making extra copies of the pics had something to do with it, this would be a good way of saying it doesn't.

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Thanks tinag222. It's almost depressing to see the 160+ page thread i read through reduced to a few paragraphs, but I'm glad you did it. Very Happy

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Yes, thank you for making this. As I have beeen lost sence the begining Shocked . I've been lurking for quite a while and I've only just built up the courage to join. And some one thankfully directed me to this thread n.n . Now I can post stuff that may (or not O.o) help.

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Nobody else seemed to be doing it so I figured why not. Plus, I knew if I waited and nobody else did and something happened, and if the original thread is any hint of things to come, then trying to do one later would be massively difficult. If not time consuming.

For the record, as new stuff is confirmed, even if I have to dig back for originals, I'll add them in the top portion instead of making new posts, so just check for updates up top.

Hope it helps. Anybody wanna go for a FAQ? Better hurry before the thread of doom reaches 300! Razz Shocked

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Why isn't this updated? Nothing new in four days?!? COME ON PEOPLE!

I'm going back to pull some theories out of my ass regarding EHWR and Cloverfield. At least then people will talk to me. Angrily, sure, but at leat they talk!

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Well if you do, please do it on the thread of doom. Smile

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Nighthawk wrote:
Why isn't this updated? Nothing new in four days?!? COME ON PEOPLE!

I'm going back to pull some theories out of my ass regarding EHWR and Cloverfield. At least then people will talk to me. Angrily, sure, but at leat they talk!


Mainly because there hasn't been anything new? Just lots of theories being pulled from various anatomies instead of something concrete.

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Tinag222, could you make a list of confirmed gamejack sites? It could save people time and the same questions being asked over and over. Smile

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That would be in the Reference thread. I got one started and it'll be there to add to on those that stir it up some and need to be put to rest one way or the other.

For the record, as of this date, there are still only two sites related to each other in the 1-18 trail.

Also for the record, in the Ref thread first post are a list of links to resources dealing with 1-18....so if you have a site up somewhere to add, add it in Reference if you would. Smile

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Bump

Added the July 20 pic update to the timeline; also added up top the addition dates "at a glance".

Bumping for reminder there IS a timeline on this page for you who were asking.

Note to Mods: is there a way to sticky the timeline thread up top so people can find it or know it's there at all? Maybe the reference thread too. Thanks!

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Bump for great justice.

Since stuff seems to be going on now.

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