no turning back...

Zeo · Post by **Zeo** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 6:17 pm

click at your own risk

http://hell.com/

paintedbird · Post by **paintedbird** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:10 pm

wow what were they smoking?

Zeo · Post by **Zeo** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:16 pm

there are no answers, only more questions.

iblis · Post by **iblis** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:44 pm

Very spiffy.

Mercurygriffin · Post by **Mercurygriffin** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:44 pm

if you type a word into search it gives you the IP #'s of all the people who typed in the same thing that are on.

junkie christ · Post by **junkie christ** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:01 pm

theyve been working on that site for years on and off assuming the same people kept control of the names.
i havent checked it in a while
very pleased.
very.

Zeo · Post by **Zeo** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:36 pm

http://www.hell.com/X/faqF.html

is this a joke?

is this real?

can I sell my soul here?

-once you are willing it no longer has any value.

hahaha, nice.
:twisted:

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:38 pm

Very William Gibson. I love websites like that. I still think my favorite is http://www.superbad.com.

Vachy · Post by **Vachy** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 11:18 pm

Hm. I'm confused. The last time I went there was a few years ago, and I seem to remember it being a search engine type thingy that used google's "I'm feeling lucky" thing? What is it now?

g0dz3lla · Post by **g0dz3lla** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 5:28 pm

Ah. It's nice to see I'm not the only one that has been stalking that site off and on for years. I think the first time I saw that site was in 98-99, it's been around for awhile.

Zeo · Post by **Zeo** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 4:00 pm

I just happened upon it out of boredom one day. I guess it is some sort of cyber-community (?)
Apparently you can get an email address @hell.com...
Anyone know anything else about the site?

g0dz3lla · Post by **g0dz3lla** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 5:19 pm

The domain itself is a VPN(Virtual Private Network). I always figured it was some private online community.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 6:49 pm

"Basically, it's a display ground for a very recluse group of digital artists, supported by selling email addresses with hell.com for the domain name.

To access their email subscription service go to

http://hell.com/@/

I have yet to actually sign up for an email address with them.

I have been tracking down members of this site for years, as their art leaves little hints here and there. I got it all down to the lead artists name, address, and email... and once the mystery was solved, there wasn't much left to do.

According to the domain registration info, Ken Aronson is the Point of Contact.

http://www.cybrport.com/KEN/

However, the site appears to be little more than a way to contact him via email. Going to just http://www.cybrport.com itself brings up a search function, which will use http://www.google.com if it's something not on the site, but if you begin to type Ken Aronson, it immediately jumps to that page.

However, I'm not entirely certain that Kenneth Aronson is a real person, and am more inclined to believe the real runner of the site to be a Mr. Philip Wood, in France, who goes by the moniker of Orpheus.

http://rhizome.org/member.rhiz?user_id=1004137
http://www.medialounge.net/ECB/lounge/o ... ie_id=1034
also found on the Guest Book of http://www.mystae.com (a sight about Illuminations, hmmm....)

Anyway... there's more to the story, but basically, it's an artist's site, and has nothing to do with Satan, the Devil, etc... they just liked the shock-value of the name."