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http://0100101110101101.org/copies/

So hell.com was an art website, and the membership invitations were a part of its grand opening of its new art exhibition?

The audio starts here http://www.0100101110101101.org/home/co ... nvas2.html
Click the red ball and let it play, it will transfer to the next canvas with audio loop...

I haven't checked it out yet, but you mention that the site linked to other sites. Maybe it simply linked you to BoC's site and a loop of Sixtyten was playing there? Up until Tomorrow's Harvest, their site's always had loops of their stuff playing, changing every once in a wihle.

Does anyone remember if BoC's site had a Sixtyten loop at some point?

This is what the internet lacks nowadays, a definite sense of anonymity. Social media has taken that away, so to see anonymously posted things like this is really quite intriguing. I wouldn't be surprised if BoC dabbled a lot around the internet, they did once express desires to branch out from music, writing books and making films. Maybe this was just a different outlet for them that was accessible?
The space stuff seems like these were a bunch of "artists" of the time ripping off Animutation, but without any of the humour.

I tried http://www.sign69.com/medialounge/space99999.html and was re-directed to http://www.sign69.com/medialounge/crop.html. It's a xentrix-ish voice reciting text from this page: http://www.sara-freder.com/read/Readvg. ... 2/13131683

Also: http://www.sign69.com/medialounge/space12007.html - 'Gently Tender' by Incredible String Band.

This is much more fun than working on a Friday afternoon.

I've fallen down the rabbit hole

Don't discover everything before I get home!

Hmmm, revisting the above link (http://www.sign69.com/medialounge/space12007.html) now plays "There Coming To Take Me Away" by Napoleon XIV.

http://www.sign69.com/medialounge/space16649.html is the highest numbered page I can get to--- any higher and I'm redirected to http://www.sign69.com/medialounge/crop.html.

xtorris wrote:Hmmm, revisting the above link (http://www.sign69.com/medialounge/space12007.html) now plays "There Coming To Take Me Away" by Napoleon XIV.

I've had this link playing for something like 20 minutes continuously and it just keeps going with different things. No Coming to Take Me Away yet!

EDIT: Got some Gangster's Paradise sounding like its playing underwater now

Opothecary wrote:

xtorris wrote:Hmmm, revisting the above link (http://www.sign69.com/medialounge/space12007.html) now plays "There Coming To Take Me Away" by Napoleon XIV. [emoji14]

I've had this link playing for something like 20 minutes continuously and it just keeps going with different things. No Coming to Take Me Away yet!

Someone please write what it's saying, I want to know and hace no conputers around!

God this is such an interesting website, and not even related to BoC

NOT what I expected!

http://www.sign69.com/medialounge/space6010.html

<eats popcorn, watches the show>

Interesting stuff

http://www.digicult.it/digimag/issue-03 ... ogramming/

http://www.sign69.com/medialounge/space9242.html

this is a weird one, just heard new dawn fades by joy division, then see emily play by pink floyd, then another different song.
Looks like this link keeps changing song.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if the Sixtyten loop the OP seems to remember is buried in one of these links that keeps loading different music. It does seem like the sort of thing that BoC would've stumbled across on the internet in the mid 90s and wanted to contribute to on the sly. Its got that cool lo-fi A/V aspect to it that they seemed to be all about in the late 90s/early 00s before the internet became kind of homogenized. It is weird to be getting nostalgic about the early days of the internet!

Rodheh wrote:9999 is interesting. It yields an animated sprite pig dancing while a montage of various images from buildings to pornography flash in the background. The audio is the beginning of Creep with some synth pads layered over it.

Edit: it appears as though the audio is random for that one, or there are at least different tracks, because upon opening it again I heard some Eno.

This one is really bizarre, because I've heard everything from Joy Division to The xx sound clips on it... Meaning that this page/ these pages have been updated as late as 2009.

If the Sixtyten loop is really on one of these pages then we've got a lot of searching to do.

xtorris wrote:I tried http://www.sign69.com/medialounge/space99999.html and was re-directed to http://www.sign69.com/medialounge/crop.html. It's a xentrix-ish voice reciting text from this page: http://www.sara-freder.com/read/Readvg. ... 2/13131683

well, my heart just sank.

I just took about 30 minutes of my life trying to put on paper what this voice was saying, only to find it was here all along.

Let me tell you that you will have value and extraordinary chances in the coming days.
You will have to decode and catch particular trigger mechanisms
Fame revealing fines
Secret links
Several messages at the time
Big friends adore you to bring a great deal of wealth a joy from them
I want to tell you confidentially about that
You have to very quickly get out of this disaster circle of negativity which prevents you from finding the path to happiness
I want to guide you towards the new positive steps in store for your life for you to know how to reach
At the right time
The good things that your actual destiny holds you but that negative forces have kept so far away from you
Something would not hear to me about your wish
I was in some confusion
But after some short moments of serious attention about your case
The answer has come to me
Your problem requires much more attention than my first vision review
However there is no need to worry too much
All you have to do
As fast as possible
Before the big positive changes I asked for soon come into effect
Is to completely eliminate the negative environment in which you are in which is generating bad luck
The inner spirit in your life has to be purified to become totally positive
To achieve if you absolutely have to free yourself of all your inhibitions
And to put into action the ability which is inside you
It is your only chance to grasp all of the positive effects from the fabulous period of happiness which is coming your way and which will bring you all the best things in life
You absolutely must get out of this negative environment if you really want to take advantage of all the financial and better opportunities that you are going to need
Which is very important to your particular case
But you must particularly mistrust certain people who are used to harming you through their acts and words
If you want to regain inner harmony
I used most of my tall power to fight against the evil iron bewitchment
And I can tell you what kind of damage they caused
You do not know yet
But there is a hidden treasure deep inside of yourself
And I am able to help you find it in order to give you the possibility of being a winner
That is the great power I have in my medium that I want to transfer into you to free your psychological faculties
I am absolutely sure that I will succeed

Plus this is incorrect anyway.

Hello Twoism

So you've basically found out about net art/net.art! It's maybe a bit past its golden years, but it's never too late

Hell.com was some kind of net.art platform/community. The "if ( 1 + 1 == 1 ) { e8z = true; };" bit someone found on Wayback Machine is from a performance by Entropy8Zuper (Auriea Harvey & Michael Samyn, now known as Tale of Tales): http://www.entropy8zuper.org/skinonskin ... again.html

The 0100101110101101.org that hosts the hell archive is another well known duo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_and_Franco_Mattes

Sign69 is Philip Wood, you can read more about his project here: http://www.digicult.it/digimag/issue-03 ... ogramming/

If you want stuff in a similar vein, Jodi also did some fantastic things, such as http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org .If you want a modern take on net art, check out people like http://www.computersclub.org/ (you might have run into one of its member, Sabrina Ratté, who does videos that BoC fans can surely enjoy http://sabrinaratte.com/filter/Personal%20work)

AistoB wrote:The audio starts here http://www.0100101110101101.org/home/co ... nvas2.html
Click the red ball and let it play, it will transfer to the next canvas with audio loop...

So after a quick Wikipedia read, s u r f a c e was one of the art "events" that hell.com held in its initial run, and it only ran for less than in a month in January 1999. The Wikipedia page actually talks about the controversy behind 0100101110101101.org copying the entire exhibit, and how hell.com was pissed off about it.

So there's also the possibility of the Sixtyten loop being somewhere in this exhibit. However, two other exhibits of theirs ran between 1999 and 2000, which fit AQfumes time frame of when they would have seen the loop. Unfortunately, the other two events (which were called skinonskinonskin and chaos) most likely were not copied by anyone. And besides that, skininskinonskin was actually an event that you had to pay for.

After messing around on the copy of s u r f a c e that 0100101110101101.org provides, it seems like a completely dead-endless maze of pages. I think I did actually find an end to it though, but even then it was a loop between a blank page and a link that said "what the hell" that led to nothing when clicked. The only way to switch pages was by that weird laughing red ball thing on the bottom. But again, it just kept infinitely looping between the two pages.

Also, viewing some of the pages automatically downloaded a bunch of vaguely named .dcr files to my drive. Things like "daze.dcr" and "introf1.dcr". Super weird.

Nottoolate wrote:Unfortunately, the other two events (which were called skinonskinonskin and chaos) most likely were not copied by anyone. And besides that, skininskinonskin was actually an event that you had to pay for.

skininskinonskin is there http://entropy8zuper.org/skinonskinonskin/ - but I'm posting this for info, i don't think you'll find the loop there

Nottoolate wrote: Also, viewing some of the pages automatically downloaded a bunch of vaguely named .dcr files to my drive. Things like "daze.dcr" and "introf1.dcr". Super weird.

Those are Shockwave files, the weird cousin of Flash (made with Macromedia Director, also the major authoring tool for CD-roms in the 90s)