This article comes fromDen of Geek UK.
For a brief moment in May 1997, Universal Pictures was promoting a major blockbuster about ducks.
However, just afterThe Lost World: Jurassic Parkwas released, something went badly wrong.
Theyre quacked, reads aCNNarticledated May 28th 1997 and brilliantly titledHackers fowl Up Lost World Site.
Questions can therefore be raised about the hacks veracity.
Best of all its still live!
Yup, head over towww.lost-world.comand you too can enjoy the best in 1990s web design and development.
Well, most of it anyways.
ATVin the same room is similarly frustrating, offering only an ACCESS DENIED message when you choose it.
Wonderfully though, there are plenty of elements that are available.
Having trouble sleeping and fancy replacing those relaxing ocean noises with something a little more adventurous?
Download two (lamentably short) audio tracks of ambient dinosaur noiseshere.
Wanna catch up on a few messages between Hammond and Ian Malcolm?
Heres aletter from Hammond, and it’s possible for you to view a lovely signed picture from Malcolmhere.
Keen on finding employment in a bioengineering company hell-bent on resurrecting dinosaurs at any cost?
Check out theInGen Employee Handbook!
The Lost Worldsite is a playbook for what movie marketing has become in the internet age.
Youre not just being sold a movie, but a story that extends beyond the cinema screen.
Meanwhile, InGen security chief Jim Boutcher seems to have walked straight out of the pages of Orwells1984.
Fear of death, he writes.
Without fear and anxiety, people wouldnt exist.
Theyd have no motivation, no call to action.
Cuddly ol Dickie Attenborough this guy aint.
This kind of immersion stretched into other parts ofThe Lost Worlds marketing and merchandise, most notably thevideo game.
Its crowning achievement, however, comes at the very end.
Maybe even find themselves some romance.
Hackers, get your keyboards (and better puns) at the ready.
