Easter Eggs
Group Numbers
The group numbers originally identified the area code of the city where the next message would appear.
Then on June 2nd, Wil Wheaton made the following post on Slashdot:
“Anyway, my prediction: The next message will be posted on Craigslist for Boston. The first message announced Group 415, and the second message was posted on Craigslist for San Francisco.”
And we had to quickly change tactics. Thank you Ensign Crusher...
So in messages 3 thru 6 we used the following group numbers:
134, 205, 022,169
Which when rearranged become the octets of an IP address:
205.134.169.22
http://www.wilwheaton.net
Messages 7 thru 10 had the following group numbers:
116,018, 16, 24
Which again when rearranged become an IP address:
216.254.18.116
http://www.la2600.org
City Initials
If you take the first letter of each city in the order the numbers stations were released, a message emerges...
New York
San Francisco
Atlanta
Little Rock
Ottawa
Lubbock
Orlando
Milwaukee
Fort Lauderdale
Gulfport