Xccr Website

[Manric Hock]

Ialso know about this website, i don't think it has anything to do with videogames, although if you click in the right places it would take you to a disclaimer contract that you can accept or decline. Spooky stuff.

The ARG began on June 23, 2004 when a Halflife2.net (now known as ValveTime) user, Merc, traveled to Valve's offices to playtest an early build of Half-Life 2. He returned to the community with photos from the tour including an image of a whiteboard with peculiar writing on it seemingly related to the game.[1] Another forum user, Lanthanide, found an encrypted message encoded in ROT13 in the whiteboard's writing. The decrypted message was the URL half-life2.com/secret/pwn3d.

When entered, the website asked for a username and password. It was later discovered that the whiteboard photo was incomplete due to part of it being cut off in the original picture, leaving the test unsolvable. When the company was contacted, Valve's Erik Johnson revealed the access details for the page: "Username: valve" and "Password: 437N452". This opened a page with a picture of the G-Man and a congratulatory message stating "Hello halflife2.net. Your cleverness is noted; you've passed the first test." The source code for the page included the keywords "congratulations, cleverness, illicit, snapshots" along with ASCII art images of Gordon Freeman and a bird identified as a robin originating from an ASCII art collection created by ASCII artist Joan Stark. This bird had previously been posted by Valve designer Greg Coomer on the Halflife2.net forums.[2]

On August 28, 2004, another Halflife2.net user, Calhoun, discovered a short text message hidden inside a picture of the G-Man (materials/models/gman/gman.jpg) located in the game file package base source shared materials.gcf, available at the time as part of the initial Half-Life 2 preload and the public Counter-Strike: Source beta. The message was "password is nova/prospekt this is the second test".[3] These access details did not work on the page for the first test.

On August 31, 2004, the community discovered a hidden link in the media section of Half-Life 2's official website.[4] Instead of a zoom icon on the thumbnail, the sixth screenshot changed to a picture of the G-Man named "GMANSECONDTEST.gif" when highlighted.[5] When clicked, it opened the URL half-life2.com/secret/secondtest/entry.php. This page asked for a username and a password, the earlier discovered "nova" and "prospekt" phrases working here. This took users to a black page with a text input box in the middle. The source code for the page had an ASCII art image of Alyx Vance, the same bird that had been included before, and the incomplete URL /secret/secondtest/whatsmyname.jpg, a hint to solve the puzzle. When viewed, the "whatsmyname.jpg" image was found to depict a Barnacle in Half-Life. Entering the word "Barnacle" in the page's input box revealed Half-Life 2 artwork of the creature attacking Gordon in the canals.

On September 23, 2004, the page half-life2.com/hl2.php was discovered by the community.[9] This page was home to a short text adventure game based on Half-Life 2 called "Half-Life 2: PHP". This was confirmed by Valve's Chris Bokitch to not be related to the previous tests.[10]

I was inspired to be a dive professional after the adventures with the Scuba Club at Virginia tech while a student at the university. It was primarily the trips to the Florida Springs for training and Florida Keys for spring/fall break that showed a guy who grew up in the mountains a whole other world. Then with the assistance of some great mentors my career path was destined for paychecks in paradise!

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It didn't long after the game's release for fans to figure out that the billboard was steering fans towards xccr.com, which while now offline, courtesy of the Wayback Machine we can see was a website modelled after a computer terminal.

Ever since Half-Life 2's release over 15 years ago, fans have speculated on the link between the billboard and the website - were they part of an abandoned ARG, or did a fan set the site up independently after seeing the billboard in the game?

The owner of the website isn't public information, though it is known that the site sprang up just a few days after Half-Life 2's release, which would certainly give a motivated prankster enough time to throw something together.

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Analytical Industries (AI) states their PSR-11-39-SMB, with a special gold plated coaxial swivel connector, is a plug-compatible simple replacement oxygen sensor for use in the APD Inspiration, APD Evolution, and iQsub XCCR rebreathers. Note this is a 3rd party sensor that is NOT approved by APD for use in their rebreathers.

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