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"The Matrix" Website Updated 163

Posted by chrisd from the early-saturday-diversions dept.
feelafel writes: "Corona's Upcoming Films movie news site reports that the official Matrix website, www.whatisthematrix.com, has been "reloaded" today. Click on the keyboard twice, and enter the password "reload" to get to the new material. There's QuickTime VRs, on the set shots and most likely a slew of new hidden stuff. Happy searching."
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  • will the agents still need to "bug* Neo to find hm ?
    Even though they may teleport anywhere ?
    Many illogical features, IMHO.

  • Why... (Score:1, Insightful)

    by Penrod Pooch ( 466103 )
    is an updated website frontpage material?
  • So are they filming matrix 2 and 3 at the same time or just 2??

  • What is the Matrix (Score:2, Informative)

    by Mode Frozen ( 559419 )
    I chose the red pill. Which led to a game that sucks ass. DONT CHOOSE THE RED PILL. :P
    • Actually the higher you get in the game, the more codes they give you. The codes I know so far:
      chrysalis,
      page78,
      page98,
      page168,
      page 272, and
      sixtypages.
      This is on top of the reload code. You enter these by selecting the upper right screen after you get through the reload screen.

  • Navigation? (Score:3, Insightful)

    by UM_Maverick ( 16890 ) on Saturday February 23, 2002 @10:55AM (#3057205) Homepage
    Wow...I'm the first to admit that it's a pretty site, and there's probably a lot of fun stuff to do, but there's also something to be said for usable navigation. I wish I had time to click every single little screen to try to find some of the good stuff...

    Has anybody else noticed the lack of easily-navigated sites out there today? People seem to have forgotten the old "just because we can doesn't mean we should" motto..

    • Re:Navigation? (Score:5, Interesting)

      by tomstdenis ( 446163 ) <tomstdenis@gma[ ]com ['il.' in gap]> on Saturday February 23, 2002 @10:59AM (#3057219) Homepage
      Try sitting in a "web design" college class. Where the motto is "if it loads in under a day its incomplete".

      For example, in one lab we had to use CSS stuff. Which is all good [of course I've completely forgotten how todo them now since I never use em]... anyways. I did a rather plain webpage that did use CSS styles and anyways the teacher said I didn't work "hard enough" on it.

      Most people in my class think that "flash animations" are stndard HTML elements and no site is complete without them.

      Oh more on point, WTF, what's up with the stupid movie? When is it comming out?

      Tom

      • Re:Navigation? (Score:5, Informative)

        by zsmooth ( 12005 ) on Saturday February 23, 2002 @12:41PM (#3057481)
        Coming Summer 2003... They had to reshoot all the shots that had Aaliyah with Jada Pinckett-Smith, and plus the Oracle died (dunno what they're doing about that...)

      • Re: Navigation? (Score:2, Informative)

        by thebabelfish ( 213456 )
        Oh more on point, WTF, what's up with the stupid movie? When is it comming out?

        According to the IMDB [imdb.com], both The Matrix Reloaded [imdb.com] (the second one) and The Matrix Revolutions [imdb.com] (the third one) are coming out in 2003.

        I originally thought they were coming out this year, but I suppose not.


      • I would have flipped out and killed everyone in the room, starting with the instructor. I work plenty hard on "plain" pages that have good cross-platform code.

        When I read the Matrix site news here my first thought was, "you couldn't PAY me to visit that site, it'll be pure aggravation."

        Heck, I haven't even visited fox.com/24 and I love the show. They drill the URL into my brain every chance they get but I know it'll be a load of Flash crap.
      • Not in my department. The classes I've taken have focused on usable design and platform compatibility. I now have a deep hatred for Netscape 4.x, so much DHTML doesn't work right in it. Unfortunately we ran out of time to get into accessibility so all the class heard was early comments to make sure to have ALT tags on your images.
      • So sadly true. The worst part is half the time they want you to use some P.O.S. WYSIWYG editor like front page or dreamweaver. Sad.. very, very, very sad.

        I dropped the class I was in after they refused to not make me use either dreamweaver/frontpage and I insited on not only coding it by hand but *shock* validating my HTML with the W3C's validator. The teacher was none too happy when I pointed out that most of hte crap he was teaching wasn' valid HTML standards and shouldn't be used. Oh well. Hooray for college education.
      • First mistake: believing college professors know anything about the Web (some do, most don't). If you want to learn Web development, go intern at some company that's actually doing it.

        Second mistake: believing large companies like AOL-Time Warner know anything about the Web (I've done outsourced work for them and other giants... they don't have a clue)

        Anyway, if you don't feel like playing their stupid "find the right page and type our secret password" game, just go here [warnerbros.com].

    • I agree that most sites suck when it comes to navigation, but i think the mantra of the matrix site is one of obfuscation...

    • System of a down (Score:1, Offtopic)

      by Commienst ( 102745 )
      System of Down's website [systemofadown.com] is the most annoying to navigate site on the web I have come across. While it must have took the webmaster a long time to make that remote control, it makes the site utterly annoying to navigate.
    • Creativity shouldn't take a back seat to your lack of patience. How interesting would comercials be if they where 30 seconds of just the facts in black and white. Seriously its a site built around entertainment, let them entertain you. Ambiguity is kind of fitting for a movie like "The Matrix".

    • I wish I had time to click every single little screen to try to find some of the good stuff...

      It's a game, not a website, and I've given up on finding every little screen in games since Zelda.

  • Matrix III (Score:5, Funny)

    by SkewlD00d ( 314017 ) on Saturday February 23, 2002 @10:56AM (#3057206)
    I bet the /. effect overloads the matrix and frees humanity. Oops, did i spoil the ending?

  • It sure is pretty but... (Score:3, Funny)

    by beowulf_26 ( 512332 ) <beowulf_26@hotm a i l . c om> on Saturday February 23, 2002 @10:57AM (#3057211) Homepage
    "If I could choose the real world or the Matrix, I'd choose" the real world cause it doesn't make me gag on it's plugins.

    Be forewarned, this page is plugin hell. In two minutes of browsing I've run into Flash, Quicktime VR, RealPlayer. The Matrix is a highly complicated thing I guess...

    Doesn't matter, I'll still pay through the nose to go to any sneak peak and I'll probably see it in theaters at least 3 times as well.
  • a 'can-miss' experience. Not much of a draw, even for a casual Matrix fan.

  • How to Hack the Matrix (Score:5, Informative)

    by SkewlD00d ( 314017 ) on Saturday February 23, 2002 @11:09AM (#3057245)
    Valid commands:
    • geof
    • skroce
    • darrow
    • wrong number
    • guns
    • morpheus
    • trinity
    • deja vu
    • steak
    • agent bullet time
    • crash
    • keanu
    • carrie
    • laurence
    • tokyo
    • lobby
    • mirror mirror
    • sentinal
    • nebuchadnezzar
    • site credits
    • owen
    • page168
    • page212
    • page98
    • page78
    • b ill
    • redpill
    • classic
    • reload

    I didn't try them all, so play w/ em! It's sorta cool, I guess.
    • you forgot "red", three still of the lady in red in nothing but her lacy underthings.

    • List incomplete (Score:4, Informative)

      by Alsee ( 515537 ) on Saturday February 23, 2002 @01:53PM (#3057712) Homepage
      To "Hack the Matrix" for all "passwords" to try, all you have to do is look at the sourcecode:

      if (a.indexOf('@') != -1 && a.indexOf('.') != -1) (Test for E-mail address!)

      if (a == 'geof'...
      if (a == 'skroce'...
      if (a == 'darrow'...
      if (a == 'wrong number' || a == 'Wrong Number' || a == 'WRONG HUMBER'       (TYPO!) || a == 'Wrongnumber' || a == 'WRONGHUMBER' (TYPO!) || a == 'wrongnumber' || a == 'WRONG #' || a == 'wrong #' || a == 'wrong#' || a == 'WRONG #')...
      if (a == 'guns'...
      if (a == 'morpheus'...
      if (a == 'trinity'...
      if (a == 'deja vu'...
      if (a == 'Steak'...
      if (a == 'agentbullettime'...
      if (a == 'crash'...
      if (a == 'keanu'...
      if (a == 'carrie'...
      if (a == 'laurence'...
      if (a == 'tokyo'...
      if (a == 'lobby'...
      if (a == 'jaw'...
      if (a == 'mirror mirror'...
      if (a == 'neo bullet time'...
      if (a == 'SENTINAL'...
      if (a == 'NEBUCHADNEZZAR'...
      if (a == 'SENTINELLARGE800x600'...
      if (a == 'site credits'...
      if (a == 'owen' || a == 'owen' || a == 'owen')...       (Repetitive *AND* redundant!)
      if (a == 'chrysalis'...
      if (a == 'page168'...
      if (a == 'page212'...
      if (a == 'page98'...
      if (a == 'page78'...
      if (a == 'bill'...
      if (a == 'RED'...
      if (a == 'REDPILL'...
      if (a == 'classic'...
      if (a == 'reload'...

      -
      • You'd think that the warped mind creating such a complex website, just might have the skills to make the password discovery at least somewhat tricky.

        Imagine that - server side matrix... you can only access some interfaces at certain times of the day. They need a better geek on their webdesign team.

    • More Hacking (Score:4, Informative)

      by harvardian ( 140312 ) on Saturday February 23, 2002 @02:35PM (#3057833)
      Once you get to the flash panel after typing reload into the keyboard, click on the panel pull-out that's on the far right. Click on the small button to the right of "HTML version" twice. You get a panel asking for binary input. Here are the codes:

      • 11011011: a Quicktime VR of something in some ship
      • 10110110: an interview with the stunt coordinator
      • 00011000: an interview with a concept illustrator

      And yes, I did try all 256 codes :-P The interviews are pretty short and the VR totally unrevealing, so this secret was kind of lame.

  • Codes for "Input Codes" (Score:2, Informative)

    by Tensor ( 102132 )
    These are all the codes it accepts : 'geof', 'skroce', 'darrow', 'wrong number' || 'wrong #', 'guns', 'morpheus', 'trinity', 'deja vu', 'Steak', 'agentbullettime', 'crash', 'keanu', 'carrie', 'laurence', 'tokyo', 'lobby' 'jaw', 'mirror mirror', 'neo bullet time', 'SENTINAL', 'NEBUCHADNEZZAR', 'SENTINELLARGE800x600', 'site credits', 'owen', 'chrysalis', 'page168', 'page212', 'page98', 'page78', 'bill', 'RED', 'REDPILL', 'classic', 'reload'

  • Matrix book preview (Score:3, Informative)

    by prototype ( 242023 ) <bsimser@shaw.ca> on Saturday February 23, 2002 @11:19AM (#3057268) Homepage

    If you picked up the Matrix redux DVD, it contains a TON of material on the movie and previews of the upcoming ones.

    On the site play the shockwave game and once you get through the various stages you're given a password to access the Matrix book preview (which they discuss on the DVD). The book contains tons of pics and stuff from the movies, the anime shorts, storyboards and other great stuff.

    You can access the book preview URL directly here:
    http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/cmp/bookprev iew.html [warnerbros.com]

    Enjoy!

    liB

  • It's ingenious... (Score:3, Funny)

    by Mahtar ( 324436 ) <aborell@gmail.com> on Saturday February 23, 2002 @11:20AM (#3057269)
    With the current catch-22 bandwidth dilemma most sites are having, this navigation scheme is absolutely ingenious.

    Someone visits the site, realizes how pretty/cool/etc. it is, can't find their way around, ands leaves. So they get all the praise, without all the bandwidth!

  • what a dreadful site (Score:1, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward
    how confusing. why obfuscate the content so much. oh well.

  • How to rate a lame web site. (Score:3, Interesting)

    by the eric conspiracy ( 20178 ) on Saturday February 23, 2002 @11:22AM (#3057277)
    Criminy, that was one of the worst web sites I've seen.

    Marketting seems to have devolved to pretty pictures, and has nothing to do with useful information.

    Well, get a clue - the reason I buy something is because I have some information that makes me believe that my life will be improved in some fashion as a result of the purchase. This site does nothing to give me the information I need to make a purchase decision. And NO, I am NOT going to download 5 plug-ins either!

    • When was marketing NOT all about pretty pictures?

      Style over substance, that's the American way ;)
    • um, if you actually bothered to look around, the matrix website has alot more content than most movie sites. I've spent hours reading short stories, comics, production info and interviews. Perhaps it seemed like there wasn't much because you only looked at the reloaded section?
    • Marketting seems to have devolved to pretty pictures.... the reason I buy something is because I have some information that makes me believe that my life will be improved in some fashion as a result of the purchase.

      How will buying a ticket to a movie improve your life? Maybe because you'll get some enjoyment from the pretty pictures on the screen.

      I think movies are going to have to start making two websites. Requiem for a Dream [requiemforadream.com]'s web site got me thinking about this. It's a beautiful site that adapts the movie to the web medium well, but it's got no information. You'd think the makers of an independent film who have to struggle to pay the bills would want people to know where to see or buy the damn thing. Even the distributor, Artisan Entertainment, only linked to the above site.

      I'm all for Flash as a medium for creative expression, but sometimes I just want some info on a white background.
    • pretty pictures are fore ENTERTAINMENT
      this site is for ENTERTAINMENT
      the movies was full of ENTERTAINMENT
      the movie may also have been a statement on how "society" is stuck in a rut on "how things should be"

      if you are going to slam it, give some reasonable information to back up your opinsions. The site doesn't need to fit your luddite view of how things should be.

      Free your mind - Morpheus

    • It's art. (Score:3, Insightful)

      by autopr0n ( 534291 )
      The movie is art. The website is art.

      When you go to the website you see "cool" art (or so they hope) and it makes you think that the art they are selling as their main product (the film) is of the same quality.

      And the navigation on the site is not anywhere near as bad as some people make it out to be. It only requires a little creativity and intelegence to figure out.
  • One picture from The Matrix: Reloaded area:
    A guy with a t-shirt that says "Pyrotechnician: If you see me running, try to keep up".
    LMAO

    -Cyc

  • Not Fast Enough (Score:5, Funny)

    by MattW ( 97290 ) <matt@ender.com> on Saturday February 23, 2002 @11:29AM (#3057293) Homepage
    Webmaster: "What are you saying? That I can dodge a slashdotting?"

    Morpheus: "No, webmaster, what I'm saying is that when you're ready...well, who are we kidding? You're doomed."

    Slashdot:1, Matrix:0

  • Another Code (Score:4, Informative)

    by Twiki ( 471742 ) on Saturday February 23, 2002 @11:33AM (#3057301)
    On the binary code entry screen, 11000 gets you another hidden interview. Any other binary codes?

    I have no link since it's all Flash, but here's how to get to it:

    - Once you type in 'Reload' to get to the Reloaded area, you must choose Enhanced Version
    - On the top right, there's a little vertical bar with a yellow light. This is the Option bar, click it once to expand.
    - Once expanded, click once on the grey square just to the right of the 'HTML Version' button.
    - Click the green square you just opened up, and the binary entry terminal drops down.

    Enjoy!
  • Code for access panel 3 in the Options menu next to HTML/Flash switch is 10110110.
  • Click on the keyboard twice~

    Umm, on the Web, you activate a link by clicking the primary mouse button once ("single-click"). Clicking twice in rapid succession ("double-click") may result in errors, double billing or crashes.

    Now it is your turn! Learn how to use the net [learnthenet.com] and learn how to use a mouse [lawrencegoetz.com]! It's easy!! You'll see!!!

    • Well I never saw any keyboard (I blame it on the confusing maze of tiny iconic screens, all alike), but maybe it was a keyboard drawn in Flash, which is programmed to do something magic only when you double-click it.
      • ~programmed to do something magic only when you double-click it.

        When you single-click, you get a pop-up with a prompt to enter the "password."

        Yes, the instructions were confusing. Here is how to get to the keyboard:

        1. Surf to What is the matrix [whatisthematrix.com]
        2. Click on "enhanced version" (on the top of the page)
        3. Click on the keyboard (on the lower-right side of the page).
        4. Type reload in the popup window's edit box.
        5. Click on the enter button
        6. have fun!
  • Does anybody have a REALLY good feeling about this movie? I do. I think that this is one sequel that is going to rock its fans just as much as the original. These guys know what they have to live up to, and I think they're going to do it!

    Unlike Star Wars, which could go either way... I'm quite confident in this one, and have been from the start.

    • You do? Really?

      I (and some of my friends) have a really bad feeling about this movie. The basic idea works like this: "A prequel would be cool/decent/ok/whatever the opion of the first movie was, but a sequel will suck rancid goat nuts."

      Why? Well, let's put it this way, take away the special effects from the first movie, and you're left with a plot with huge holes in it and a bunch of heavy handed Biblical metaphors.

      Now, put the special effects back in, and you have an above-average action movie (Ok, it was WAY above average at the time, but not any more.) Which brings us to the next problem: The special effects aren't so 'special' anymore. Everyone's done it, everybody's seen it. There's no 'woah, that was cool' when we get a slow-bullet time effect or the sudden freeze, rotate camera, & continue effect. We've seen it beaten to death, propped up to seem like it's still alive, and beaten some more.

      To sum up: Matrix sequel doesn't look too good IMHO.
      (Especially since I've heard that Keanu will fly in this movie. If there's any part of the movie that made me want to groan, it was that flying sequence at the end. Both unneccesary & horrible!)
  • Did anybody see the shirt on This Page [warnerbros.com]??? WOW I want one BAD!

    PYROTECHNICIAN
    [explosives sign with bulletholes in it]
    IF YOU SEE ME RUN TRY TO KEEP UP

  • DMCA violation? (Score:5, Funny)

    by anthony_dipierro ( 543308 ) on Saturday February 23, 2002 @12:32PM (#3057458) Journal

    Click on the keyboard twice, and enter the password "reload" to get to the new material.

    You just offered to the public a technology that is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a copyrighted work.

    • Matrix as a DMCA Metaphor (Score:1, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward
      The way I see it, the Matrix is a metaphor for the DMCA. The Robots (IP owners) came and took control(via legislation) forcing us all into a pay-per-use model of an information economy that will be the death of modern humanity (the Matrix). Which means Slashdot (Zion) is the only hope, and damned if we're not championed by a guy who has nothing interesting to say (John Katz... er, Keanu Reeves).

      Now I'm just waiting for Jack Valenti to show up and say, "Anonymous Coward, you will be assimilated." Oh, wait, wrong mythology. Instead, he'll say, "choose the red pill, or not. See if I care. Either way, you'll pay licensing fees until the end of time, or the airing Matrix XXV: The War Over Yet Another Copyright Extension, whichever comes first. Muahahahahah!"

  • Animatrix (Score:3)

    by ink ( 4325 ) on Saturday February 23, 2002 @01:45PM (#3057690) Homepage

    Oh wow!

    http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/rl_img/matri x_anime_preview.gif [warnerbros.com] Matrix anime!

  • Re: (Score:2, Informative)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 )
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  • An Average Slashdot User In The Matrix... (Score:5, Funny)

    by sker ( 467551 ) on Saturday February 23, 2002 @04:04PM (#3058136) Homepage Journal
    Slashdot User: Oh shit, an agent. I'm trapped.

    Tank: OK, I'm loading you up with our latest hand-to-hand combat module

    Slashdot User: Fuck no I'm not going to download a plug-in! This is stupid! Why can't it just be in HTML 3.2??
  • If anyone does get to the RELOAD part, which I have found. It has this cool flash interface, if you click on a certain button, you can enter in a code to have access to "ZION83N6". But you have to figure out the password. If anyone does crack it, post it to /. !

    Happy Cracking :)

    ~Shane
  • A while ago I went and worked out all the codes. There might be more now, but heres all the ones from a few months ago.

    Heres a list:
    GEOF
    SKROCE
    DARROW
    WRONG NUMBER
    GUNS
    MORPHEUS
    TRINITY
    DEJA VU
    STEAK
    AGENTBULLETTIME
    CRASH
    KEANU
    CARRIE
    LAURENCE
    TOKYO
    LOBBY
    MIRROR MIRROR
    SENTINAL
    NEBUCHADNEZZAR
    SENTINELLARGE800 x600
    SITE CREDITS
    OWEN
    CHRYSALIS
    PAGE168
    PAGE212
    PAGE98
    PAGE78
    BILL
    RED
    REDPILL

  • For all of you looking for -just- the new content on the sequel, and don't want to fool around with any of this 'code' crap, go here...

    http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/index_main_s equel.html [warnerbros.com]
  • Just view the source of the webpage. They are all embedded right in the code. Thank you and please drive through.

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