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Antikinlo Robot Spider Worm 3000
Introduction
Interestingly... often people assume that if a quick google search for a word turns up 0 results, then the thing must not exist. This is an unusual shift to have conquered the perception of an entire culture in a very short span of actual time.
Imagine 50 years ago, if someone said that since they couldn't find a card catalog entry for something, then the thing probably didn't exist.
So it is only because of this culture, bred by the internet, that a thing such as the Antikinlo Robot Spider Worm 3000 could even exist. The concept is too preposterous for it to be reasonable to assume that it could really work, and yet it did.
The Worm
On May 5th, 2005, an unknown group of hackers released a malicious worm that spread undetected from web server to web server, achieving its dark mission and spreading to the next site, leaving little trace of its quickly passing presence.
The goal was simple. The spider elements of the code would crawl google, as well as several other leading search engines, searching for matches against a large dictionary of ELotH:TES specific terms (such as Wizbits, Furniliar, and Elemenstor) and then the worm component would attack the server through a wide variety of methods until it was able to gain access to modify the robots.txt file present on the machine. It would then mark for exclusion all pages and information housed on the server related to the Elemenstor saga.
By August of 2005, a google search for "Elemenstor" would actually come up with 0 hits, despite the wealth of information available about the franchise.
Practical Upshot
When this web site was started, it was actually believed by some people who were new to the series, that the Epic Legends of the Hierarchs did not really exist! Despite the fact that all they did to collaborate their "theory" was a web search!
Even Wired Magazine fell into this trap.
Hopefully by now those misled people realize that there is no way that the shear amount of content presented on this wiki alone could possibly be the combined effort to construct an elaborate fiction.
Discussion
| Tim |
Given the name of the script, my personal theory is that the bot was originally designed to just wipe out Kinloboy web sites, but probably had some sort of a bug. |
| Jute Mill |
As card-carrying member of the occult underground...'s list of disposable contacts and guinea pigs, I am almost certain this was a calculated attack. Rumor has it that the guy who did it gets off on eradicating knowledge. Apparently he was trying to "become one with The Censor" or some such nonsense by wiping out all evidence of a pop culture phenomena from the 'net. Honestly, it's stuff like this that leads to stuff like The Day of the Shattered Server. |
| Jute Mill |
Oh, and on that note. James Langomedes! My life for yoooooou! He is returning. I have seen it... |
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