Incunabula & Ong's Hat

The threads of the story can be traced back as far as the 1980s on bulletin board systems, old xerox mail art networks and early zines. The aim was to create a fictional story line, and embed it in various media cultures to establish backstory. It may have started as an in-joke, or the first alternate reality game (ARG), a work of transmedia storytelling or as a memetic experiment, to see how far the meme could spread or a combination of all of the above.
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Plot:
The urban legend (or alternate history) states that a facility manned by renegade Princeton professors conducted quantum physics and chaos theory experiments, and according to conspiracy theories, discovered a new theory for dimensional travel using a device called The EGG. This device was to later inspire a children's TV series called Galidor to use an interdimensional travel device of the same name. Ong's Hat is often cited as the first ARGs on many lists of alternate reality games.

They were largely based in the ghost town of Ong's Hat, New Jersey, hence the name of the project.

Joseph Matheny eventually concluded the project.
Ong’s Hat was more of an experiment in transmedia storytelling than what we would now consider to be an ARG but its DNA – the concept of telling a story across various platforms and new media – is evident in every alternate reality game that came after.
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[jeremygodoy]

im studying about this with neurobrain population pointers of magnetic flux flow in certain nano wavelength limits passed the speed of light. so might help figure out some things.

[shady_s]

I come here because of the "how do you spell that" video lol

[moonwatch]

What happened to the small egg devices that were weirdly activated by those folks for Matheny? There used to be a webpage about it that showed some photos.
I doubt this was faked entirely - the Moors link to the Holy Tabernacle Ministries and I had a magazine of theirs about 9-11, years before it was published.

[syadzafi]

so sad that incunabula video turn of their comment section