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Skynet Becomes Self Aware, Twitter Notices

April 19, 2011 By

Terminator

Briefly: In the fictional historical/future timeline of the Terminator franchise (specifically The Sarah Connor Chronicles), Skynet, the artificial intelligence system created by the US Military, becomes self aware today, April 19th, at 8:11pm. Skynet is the main antagonist of the franchise, waging war with humans and creating the Terminator cyborgs we’ve come to know and love. The Internet has taken notice, with “Skynet” trending worldwide on Twitter. At least now the robots don’t have the element of surprise on their side.

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This Week In Viral: Terminator Viral Ends?

May 25, 2009 By

Terminator Salvation opened this weekend, and thus another viral ends. Or does it? One of the challenges of covering viral campaigns is knowing when they really end. Usually it’s the weekend, if not the day, the movie opens in theaters. However, even if the main viral campaign ends, tidbits of it may linger for months (see: Cloverfield), usually in anticipation of the DVD release or even a sequel. Also, the websites created for these campaigns seem to last far beyond the movie’s opening, so anything’s possible.
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Judgement Day Is Here

May 21, 2009 By

Well, technically Judgement Day was in 2004, according to the Terminator universe, but today is the day Terminator Salvation is released in the United States, so most if not all of the ARG should be wrapping up. Proof of that is the current state of Skynet’s website, shows a big red “…Recalculating…” on each page. The guys over at Resistorbeterminated.com seem to think this means they’ve won with their hacking efforts, but as we all know, they are sadly wrong.
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Skynet Research Password Discovered

May 19, 2009 By

Products Regular

This Terminator Salvation viral update comes to us thanks to cwoolboy in our forums. Recently, if you’ve checked out the Skynet website’s product page, you may have noticed that if you position your cursor over the “P” in “Products”, a dialog box opens for you to enter a password. Well, now we know the password is “skynetresearchinitiatephasetwoprojectjudgementday”. Long, I know. The interesting results of entering the password after the jump.
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This Week In Viral: Yeah, We’re Still Here

May 18, 2009 By

Sorry for the long break. Let’s get down to business. So, two more virals have come to pass this year, with Star Trek and Angels & Demons now behind us. Listen to our review of the viral campaigns in our latest ViralCast. With the death of two virals, a new viral is born. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has finally started a viral campaign with a couple of sites that so far don’t mean much to me. Check out the links here, or check out our Transformers page. More viral news after the jump.
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An Uprising? Terminator Salvation Viral

March 27, 2009 By

The most active mainstream viral as of late is Terminator Salvation. After a lull, these past few weeks were quite interesting, including some sites that might catch your eye. Hopefully with the release date looming, we are going to get more updates and mysterious sites that i expect to happen in the future. Continue reading after the jump.
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