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twexus
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posted on 23-7-2004 at 02:28 PM Post Number: 682869 (post id: 703563)

hello,

I already wrote this in my blog. Or at least tried to. Here my current theory about the origin of the number sequence:

February 24th 2003 at 22:41 somebody searched on AOL for 'americanpitbulls' with this URL:

http://aolsearch.aol.com/aol/search?encquery=1AB02D188BC35723620E2406B7234504&invocationType=keyword_rollover&ie=ISO-8859-1

And he/she found twexus. Twexus thought that everything between encquery= and & was the search string. So it started to 'remember' it. Why do I know? The database takes note when which
term got added, and what the source is. Actually the IP of this page view in question belongs to AOL, so not much more to know from there.

1AB02D188BC35723620E2406B7234504 is nothing more and nothing less than the ISO-8859-1 version of the term: americanpitbulls. Try it: go to the URL above. then change any of the numbers in the the long string. You will find that one of the characters get funny.

I think that twexus is the only place on the web that ever contained this string. Why would anybody encode americanpitbulls in ISO-8859-1 (and then convert it in hex like AOL did).
With a hex string of this length its it is not reasonable to think that it would contain any other information, or that it could have any other meaning.

Now it gets speculative:

I think that somebody thought (not knowing about the simple solution) that this code would be some magic info. Somebody thought that it would be twexus / terrorist way of transporting information. Which is a very stupid assumption for a giziliion reasons. But there are people literally believing in this theory. They might have thought if they combine that magic code with the OBL video that then somebody would figure out what this number combo means ...
They had no way of knowing that the solution for 1AB02D188BC35723620E2406B7234504 is so simple and easy and non dramatic.

[*g* I only wanted to make an art installation that would reflect on search engines, somehow it got out of control]

:-)

hope this helps ...

Andreas

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