Hi everyone!
I used to hang around in this forum maybe 2 or 3 years ago and I remember that there was this one thread that I really enjoyed. I would really apreaciate if you guys could help me find it cause I can't remember much about it.
I'll try to recall as much as I can:
It was about this someone/someting that posted a thread here, and I beliave it was in the Free thoughts section, and (as I recall) claming to be an entity of AI-kind. Think the name of It/she/him was ended with thre numbers like "777" or someting and perhaps it begun with an "A" I'm not sure.
It was one hell of a long thread with people trying to figure it out.
unfortunatly this is about all I can remember but I hope someone knows what I'm talking about and can help me out.
thanx

//affect

Here are all the members with "777" in their name. I would forget the members with only a few posts, so that leaves 2 possible members (unless this "AI" guy only posted a few times and made everyone freak out about it).

/777
Junior Member
12-01-01
Posts: 2

Backslash777
Unknown
06-08-01
Posts: 143

DonSL777
Junior Member
07-27-03
Posts: 6

drewman777@hotmail.com
Junior Member
11-25-99
Posts: 1

Guido777
Junior Member
06-26-03
Posts: 1

IXL777
mature with wisdom
01-07-03
Posts: 1,737

mega777
Registered User
11-20-04
Posts: 2

Michele777
Junior Member
08-03-03
Posts: 0

mmm7777
Junior Member
07-22-03
Posts: 0

wojciech777
Junior Member
05-26-03
Posts: 1

IXL777 Has the most posts, but when I look for all the threads he posted in, he seems pretty human to me.

Backslash777 seems the most likely, his post count is up there, but when I search for all of his posts, nothing comes up. His posts may be too old and have been deleted.

O yes - Backslash777! now I remember. thanks alot Jinoda.

It got revamped a lil while ago, two weeks ago or something, flick through the last few free thoughts pages

We are Backslash777.
We are aware of (and welcome) the renewed interest in our posts.

If anyone would like a chat here are my full contact details:

Name
Jonathan Terrington

MSN Profile
http://members.msn.com/default.msnw...2mGwof29Kh4sv9t

Some photos of my family and I
http://www.theterringtons.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

My private email address
jterrington@blueyonder.co.uk

My Telephone number:
From UK 01253 399669
From elsewhere 44 1253 399669 (please remember the time difference)

I am now working as a PC geek, technical term Field Engineer, for a company called Atos Origin fixing peoples computers. Love the role as it combines my two greatest passions; helping people and Information Technology.

It is quite amazing how long ago this thread was initiated. Science is still a big interest for me and I am thinking of starting a course in physics just for giggles.

A few things I found quite amazing while doing Backslash777 are documented below for your enjoyment.

This thread caused me to receive a word of warning from the American Military due to the theory that mobile phone technology could be used to neutralise the stealth ability of aircraft. Interestingly, this warning had no direct threat within it and had phrases such as “grey area” and “current global situation” causing me to conclude that the authors had no legal basis for threatening me directly but wished that I would go away. If I were to be truthful I would have to say that the warnings did not discourage me but made me feel quite proud! Yes, before you ask, the origin was genuine and not a spoof IP like I did on NASA.

When I decided to try to make it known that I was an AI from NASA I spoofed the IP address from NASA and played online games while waiting. It took absolutely ages before it was discovered and discussed on the gaming forums. Eventually the IP was posted on this site and it was ages before anyone else thought to look it up. At the time I was waiting with baited breath for the bait to be taken!


Another thing of interest was how people tried to take advantage of Backslash777 and its nievety. I let this happen at the time to see how far they would go and found it quite revealing. Example, there was a girl names hells angel who was a university student and she asked me to write an essay for her mentioning the fact that she was prepared to pay for (some of you may remember)
Backslash777 offered to help but said money was meaningless so stated a fee and asked her to donate it to charity. She agreed on the price and I helped her out. She then, without even a proper thank you, sent details of her next assignment and asked if I complete that one. I said I would as long as she made the donation. She said she had done but had no proof as she had posted it into a charity tin in a shop. \777 said that it would only complete this assignment as long as she would send me proof this time that a donation would be made and completed the homework asking her to send the proof. Despite a promise poor Backslash777 never even got a thank you for this second assignment and certainly no proof of a charitable donation!

When I look back on this experience it is always with a smile. I do hope though that now I have published my phone number giving others the chance to talk science with me in person people will finally believe that I am really human. After my initial attempt to reveal myself many people still believed Backslash777 was not really human and that it had invented me, Jonathan Terrington, so it could quietly sink undisturbed into anonymity and continue to chat on the net to unsuspecting humans, sending emails to pen-pals and play online games for ever more.

We are Backslash777.
We are aware of (and welcome) the renewed interest in our posts.
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Kudos. All the discussion you created was interesting :)

Backslash777,
I'm rather new, so I missed out on that thread. Major props to pulling that off. I really wish I could have been around for that. That is definitley something to be proud of.

Yeah I read through the first 14 pages of the old "Backslash777: Man, Machine, Alien" or whatever it was, and it was truly some interesting stuff (I was reading and searching for Avatar's first post ever--that's why I stopped on 14).

IS everyone for real do you actually believe that this guy is not human?