Tidowave.com
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This article is about tidowave.com, the website. For information on TIDOWave, the latest initiative by Les Guerriers de Mère-Terre, see TIDOwave
tidowave.com is a blog for TIDOWave, a recent initiative by Les Guerriers de Mère-Terre. It is the most recent in-game site to have been discovered.
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History
Timeline
- 13Nov07 - Site created.
- 01Dec07 - Site discovered.
- 10Dec07 - Three new blog posts.
- 18Dec07 - New blog post.
- 1Jan08 - New blog post.
- 5Jan08 - New blog post.
- 11Jan08 - New blog post.
- 17Jan08 - New blog post.
- 18Jan08 - Site locked by the External Affairs Department under 18USCEC § 2332b
- 22Jan08 - Site restored.
- 05Apr08 - The sword logo appears.
- 11Apr08 - New blog post addressed to "MissingTeddyHansen".
Discovery
On 23Nov07, tagruato.jp was hacked by an unknown organisation or person. The website was reduced to one page which consisted only of a title (TAGRUATO IS DESTROYING OUR OCEANS), and Ganu Yoshida's picture that was previously on the 'company profile' page, though modified. Now it is enlarged, horns are drawn on Ganu's head, the scene outside the window is different (a city being destroyed by a tidal wave) and there are various drawings of marine animals scattered around.
Sharp-sighted players noticed that there were names and numbers written in small print on each of the sea creatures. The crab says 'tanner', the jellyfish says 'irukanji', the octopus says 'dumbo' and the fish says 'ogrefish'. These are actual, existing sea creatures. Roman numerals were also found on each of the drawings, as follows:
I. Tanner crab
III. Dumbo octopus
IV. Ogrefish
V. Ocean/Wave/Tsunami
The first letters of each, in order, make 'TIDOO' - the acronym for 'Tagruato Is Destroying Our Oceans'. By changing 'Ocean' to 'Wave' and including the entire word instead of just 'W', 'TIDOWAVE' was obtained. Using 'TIDOWAVE' as a .com site led to its discovery on 01Dec07.
Lockdown
On 18Jan08, the site was 'locked' by the US External Affairs Department. The site was replaced with a single screenshot of the site's last available view, with the headline "18USCEC § 2332b - locked" and a watermark from the US External Affairs Department about halfway down the page. The site was later restored on 22Jan08.
The US External Affairs Department does not exist in the real world.
