Timeline
From SarahConnor
Timeline of Events
Autumn, 2007
- Source Unfiction:
- During various tv shows and premieres, there was a viral ad that started out with a pair of red robotic eyes lights lighting up, followed by several flashes of action, followed by the url "Takebackthefuture.com". On the website there's a counter counting down days, in the style of an old analog counter.
- The counter is also interrupted with flashes of video (SWF), and audio recordings (anyone know of any stored versions to link to?).
- Some audio clips were transcribed as
"Listen to me. Skynet - it's happening again" "This is real. They will take over. We're all in danger - my mom's not crazy." |
June 07
June 15, 2007
- New EniTech blog entry: June 15, 2007 - Great paper from Spectel a few years ago...
- A paper from Mark Davidson of Spectel Research Corp. courtesty of Cornell University on the topic of tachyons is discussed and linked.
August 07
August 28, 2007
- New EniTech blog entry: Aug 28, 2007 - I started a group.
- "admin" (like Frank) informs us he's created a facebook group for former Cyberdyne employees
September 07
September 12, 2007
- New EniTech blog entry: Sept 12, 2007 - What's in a project name?
- The name of the new project (for the tachyon camera) is discussed - "Gardner" referring to "Martin Gardner". The inspiration for the project coming from Gardner's "tachyon telephone" paradox, from the book Aha! Gotcha + Aha! Insight
- Thus the project's name: The Gardner Project
October 07
October 11, 2007
- New EniTech blog entry: Oct 11, 2007 - A limerick
- A simple entry quoting the limerick about the 'young lady named Bright', linking to another blog entry about tachyons (with the limeric)
November 07
November 20, 2007
- New EniTech blog entry: Nov 20, 2007 - MIT Open Source Research Community
- The term "open source" is explained, and how it applies to their intended research method for this new project.
December 07
December 23, 2007
- New EniTech blog entry: Dec 23, 2007 - Image 113 A/B from this evening.
- Enitech reveals the first image taken from their tachyon camera, and its comparison photo to today, making note of a few environmental differences, such as a renovated building.
December 24, 2007
- New EniTech blog entry: Dec 24, 2007 - Image 284 A/B - 12/24/07
- The second tachyon camera photo is revealed. Today's photo is of an empty area in San Francisco, where the tachyon photo reveals a building has been built.
January 08
January 3, 2008
- New EniTech blog entry: Jan 3, 2008 - Where do the 2008 presidential candidates stands on science issues?
- Each presidential candidate of 2008 is listed with a short outline of their views on hot science issues, quoted from the journal Science
- New EniTech blog entry: Jan 3, 2008 - Images 57 A/B.
- The next tachyon camera photo is revealed. Today's photo is of a street in San Francisco, where the tachyon photo reveals a few minor differences.
January 6, 2008
- New EniTech blog entry: Jan 6, 2008 - First Public Video from the Gardner Project
- Enitech's first video of the tachyon camera is uploaded to youtube, asking for peoples' input and suggestions for what pictures they should take in testing the tachyon camera. The "observer effect" is also explained.
January 9, 2008
- New EniTech blog entry: Jan 9, 2008 - Update coming shortly...
- A reminder to send in ideas for photos to take
- New EniTech blog entry: Jan 9, 2008 - The suggestions on what we should create an image of with the Gardner Project device.
- A lengthy post qouting and responding to a number of submitted photo ideas from the community.
January 10, 2008
- New EniTech blog entry: Jan 10, 2008 - Speaking of tachyon research...
- A humorous post showing an...interesting Craigslist entry.
- New EniTech blog entry: Jan 10, 2008 - The Cyberdyne Tragedy, 16 years later.
- New EniTech blog entry: Jan 10, 2008 - s34A/B gives us a very unexpected result.
- Enitech has revised their estimate of hours ahead in time the camera takes pictures, to 28,632 (about 1193 days, from the initial 1191 estimate). Their next photo is of an Enitech employee, Jacob Gustar, who they asked to return on their estimated future date (April 17, 2011) to the same spot, and see if the tachyon camera shows him in its picture. It did not.
January 11, 2008
- New EniTech blog entry: Jan 11, 2008 - r 390 A/B: Downtown San Francisco - a disturbing discovery
- Enitech took the camera to downtown San Francisco and took comparison before and after shots, revealing what appears to be have been a major catastrophe that laid waste to the city at some point in the future.
January 12, 2008
- New EniTech blog entry: Jan 12, 2008 - 2nd Gardner Project Video - Test Results
- Enitech's second video of the tachyon camera is uploaded to youtube, and another pair of photos is displayed - this time of a newspaper stand. The future paper indicates an unknown disease is rampant. The video also shows they tested the camera on a mirror, which revealed simply tachyon static.
- Enitech's second video of the tachyon camera is uploaded to youtube, and another pair of photos is displayed - this time of a newspaper stand. The future paper indicates an unknown disease is rampant. The video also shows they tested the camera on a mirror, which revealed simply tachyon static.
- Takebackthefuture.com now shows a red eye, which when clicked fades and produce a map of the earth. The video shows the human population count in relation to the cyborg population, and its dratic change over time due to 'Judgement Day', and the resulting war - humans are all but wiped out, and the cyborg population spreads to 3 billion, while humans remain with 47 million.
- Three blue points of interest appear near the end - in southern Mexico, northern Colombia, and Israel. The countdown then returns at the very end.
January 13, 2008
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Episode 1 premieres on Fox
January 14, 2008
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Episode 2 premieres on Fox
- Frank Bentley sent messages and posted a new comment in the Facebook group
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- New website discovered: Dysontrust.org
- New EniTech blog entry: Jan 14, 2008 - Anna is worried about the future
- A plain entry displaying a photo of Anna Kies at her workstation. A mysterious piece of paper against the window appears to be a puzzle to solve - potentially Anna's personal reminder of her login for the secure page of Dysontrust.org.
January 16, 2008
- New Enitech blog entry: Jan 16, 2008 - Research partnership
- EniTech announces their partnership with Dyson Trust
- New Enitech blog entry: Jan 16, 2008 - g61a/b
- A photo of a nearby neighborhood with a regular camera shows a natural environment - the tachyon camera shows a frighteningly different scene.
January 17, 2008
- New Enitech blog post: Jan 17, 2008 - Anna Reponds.
- Anna posts a video blog complaining about the obsessing going on over the photo of her posted by Mike, she references the Somethingawful forums and the Unfiction forums by nme, and emphasizes one should 'always be worried about the future'. There are also a number of equations and words scribbled on the whiteboard behind the worried Anna.
January 18, 2008
- Anna Kies' login to Dyson Trust hacked
- The Anna's worried puzzle was solved, revealing the login to Dyson Trust's secure section, where we learn in a letter from Lawrence Kelly, about the Centurion Project - proposed to Dyson Trust by an unknown organization for support funding and support, which they rejected, but recommended forwarding to the Department of Defense (though offering their services in an advisory role).
- A second letter discussed the status of the Enitech project - the initial proposal from Dr. Bentley, based on a device that was discovered (a camera, as described later in an Enitech video). Dr. Baxter, a Dyson board member, examined the device and approved Bentley's request, making it Enitech's next R&D project (now the tachyon camera).
- The final 4 images are of what appear to be punchcards, begging to be decoded
- New Enitech blog post: Sometimes we see what we don’t want to see
- Enitech reveals more devastating images from the future of neighborhoods around San Francisco.
- New Enitech blog post: Anna at the device recovery location
- Anna posts a video at the site where they found a modified camera that their team reversed engineered and which became the basis for the Gardner Project. Along with the camera were four punchcards which they believe hold the locations of four other cameras. The video is interrupted by an approaching figure in the distance, prompting the team to flee the location. On arrival at their vehicle, before they're able to get away, a threatening person appears at the driver's window, but not soon enough, and the team escapes.
January 21, 2008
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Episode 3 premieres on Fox
- New Enitech blog post: High resolution image of the attacker from Friday
- A high resolution image of the dark figure from a distance is posted for review.
- New Enitech blog post: Strange email from someone claiming to be "a member of the Resistance"
- Enitech receives a message with encrypted text, believed to be related to the still unsolved punchcards puzzle.
- The encrypted clues led to the solving of the punchcards puzzle - partially. Awaiting two more clues.
- Two camera locations have been deciphered. One in NY, and one in CA.
January 22, 2008
- vpisteve managed to find a hidden package at the California location.
- The package is a thermos containing a number of items, including a camera with the back plate removed (likely what 'resistance device' is referring to), a battery charger, a USB cable, an empty 32MB CF memory card, and a survival multi-tool. No clues or messages were found with it or in it
- The second package has reportedly been picked up from "Lily" by a person named Bill, but no report of the package has yet made its way online, and Bill's location is unknown.
- "Zoltan Gerts" posted in the Cyberdyne facebook group explaining that a man named Bill approached him and gave him the package, along with a lot of additional information
- He describes "Bill" as "a tall hooded man wearing a skiing mask and some kinda goggles that completely cover his face", who said he was "an associate of [his] father (whom [he has] not heard from in over a decade)". Bill gave him the package and told him to protect it at all costs. Bill mentions a rogue resistance cell and "preventing someone from 'compromising the integrity of the code'". The package contents are the same as vpisteves in California, but with the addition of a note which simply says: "Face North. Take a photograph. Contact Enitech Research."
- Who is Bill? Who is Zoltan?
January 23, 2008
- New Enitech blog post: 2 devices recovered in LA and NY. 2 still hidden. New photos coming in
- Photos of the two packages that were picked up are posted, along with the accounts of the deaddrops. Zoltan's meeting with the mysterious Bill included, but still no information is known. They are concerned for the safety of those who find the cameras. They also received an email from someone named "Alex" containing a number of photos in similar fashion to their tachyon camera's results - someone else may possess a similar device.
- Later, vpisteve received a communication from a flickr account named "The Resistance":
:: the device
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- vpisteve replied, to which he received another response:
Someone wants to send you a message.
Go to Security Trust of Los Angeles, point the device at box A117 inside the bank vault. It has steel walls that can withstand a severe nuclear blast with an estimated yield of around 50 megatons. Take a photo with the device.
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- The bank Security Trust of Los Angeles is the bank that Sarah, John, and Cameron visited in the pilot episode, when locating box A117 registered to "E. Boykins", or "The Engineer" - a resistance fighter from the future who developed a powerful weapon and components for a time displacement field which would take them to 2007 - in the middle of the 105 freeway (indicating the bank was destroyed).
- Frank Bentley's status on his facebook profile now reads: "busy collecting"
January 24, 2008
- Frank Bentley's status on his facebook profile now reads: "checking into a rumor"
- vpisteve travels to the bank to carry out his task.
- He takes two pictures of the bank and sends them to Enitech for processing.
- Enitech replies to Steve saying
Thank you. We've been contacted by someone claiming to be in "the resistance" who has asked us to process these images using our system. We're curious to find out what will turn up. We'll be in touch soon. |
- The Resistance responds through flickr:
Excellent work. |
- A new image on the Restistance's flickr account is posted showing newspaper clippings, and saved in a new set "other".
- The central clip is Dutch, but contains a paragraph of numbers - code? This begins a new puzzle to solve.
- The central clip is Dutch, but contains a paragraph of numbers - code? This begins a new puzzle to solve.
January 25, 2008
- New Enitech blog post: Enitech update video on the latest news from the Gardner Project 1/25/08
- A video outlining their findings from the past couple of days is posted, with the realization that there will be a devastating event occuring within about 3 years. With this in mind, they are storing their findings in a very ssafe vault for the future, for the survivors, in case it helps them.
- Also hidden within the video are numerous frames - likely placed there by The Resistance. One seems to prompt us with an email to contact them (takebackthefuture@gmail.com); one tells us that "The Turk is not dead", and one is a clip of a dead enitech member - Jacob Gustar! (the one asked to pose in front of a wall in 3 years, who the tachyon photo showed didn't make it)
- Prompted by the final hidden frame of the crime scene, KookieB emailed EniTech asking if Jacob Gustar was dead, to which they replied:
You must be confused. Jacob is still very much alive. He's sitting across from me as I write this. |
- On emailing the Resistance email address from the video, a response is sent containing a second numeric code to solve.
- thebruce emailed the Resistance asking if they had any additional information about Jacob Gustar's apparent murder. A reply was received quickly containing the original image that was inserted into the video of Jacob's crime scene (right). Note the date: the photo was taken April 11, 2008 - almost 3 months in the future.
- New Enitech blog post: First actual field image from the found Granada Hills device developed.
- Steve's photo of the vault was received and processed. The Security Trust of Los Angeles appears reduced to rubble, however there is a plaque labelled "RESIST" along with a symbol, or logo. Enitech is also currently processing a photo sent in by Zoltan recently. They also claim to be able to pull tachyon imagery from regular digital photographs, so has requested people to send in photo of major landmarks in their areas for the lab to process. Get snapping!
January 27, 2008
- catherwood managed to reverse-engineer the latest two numeric puzzles, revealing the locations of the final two cameras - Lago Vista, by Austin, TX, and by a baseball field in Orland, FL.
January 28, 2008
- New Enitech blog post: 2nd recovered device image. From the New York City device.
- Zoltan sent in his photo from NY, with a little info passed on from his contact "Bill". He was given coordinates to photograph from, and to face north. He sent two photos - one with a compass in the frame and one without. Enitech processed and displayed the latter. In the frame, for the second time, is a "RESIST" plaque with another symbol (this one differs from the first, revealed in Steve's bank vault photo earlier). Thus we may be looking at another puzzle.
January 29, 2008
- RoseKitty retrieves the Austin, TX resistance package, takes a north-facing photo with the camera, and submits it to Enitech. Photos of the drop are on her flickr.
- New Enitech blog post: 3rd Recovered Device Image. From Texas
- rosekitty, aka Ellie, had her photo from the Texas camera processed (the image she submitted was already loaded on the camera, oddly)
- rosekitty, aka Ellie, had her photo from the Texas camera processed (the image she submitted was already loaded on the camera, oddly)
- New Enitech blog post: The very first user-submitted photo from an ordinary digital camera
- Enitech posts their first user-submitted photograph from bryanflurry, processed for tachyon imagery. The first mention of Skynet is made (prompted by an earlier comment in the blog by a reader).
- Enitech posts their first user-submitted photograph from bryanflurry, processed for tachyon imagery. The first mention of Skynet is made (prompted by an earlier comment in the blog by a reader).
January 30, 2008
- A series of emails were sent from the Resistance after 3am Eastern, each growing more urgent, containing increasing amounts of the message below:
there is one more device remaining.
skynet is coming now. warn enitech. no more time left. (previously: only hours left) |
- Attached were photos of the exact deaddrop location for the last resistance package in Orland FL, seeming to verify the GPS coordinates that were given.
- Takebackthefuture.com is updated with video clips and a series of specific countdown numbers interspersed throughout the clips: 2739, 1987, 1920, 1975, 7542, 0232, 1206.