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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: chimera15 on Tue, 02 November 2010, 23:20:05
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http://www.cia.gov/
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Pretty interesting as far as web design goes. Must be html 5/javascript. Cause it only happens when you first visit it, then I guess it's saved in a cookie or something that you've visited the site, cause it doesn't happen again after.
Looking through the source, it's really well annotated. lol
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anyone remember the first lucent tv commercial?
bell labs, writing its resume XD
i loved that commercial.
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looks the same every time I visit. What am I missing?
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looks the same every time I visit. What am I missing?
The top letters are typed out on a clicky keyboard, or a typewriter. It's not working for me anymore. I wonder if they changed it or something.
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Nice effect.
Only works the first time tho, unless you clean browser cache/cookies.
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The spooks are watching you ;-)
<script type=text/javascript">
if(detectFlash(6) && (readCookie('ciaBannerflashPlayed')!= 1)){
AC_FL_RunContentHome2('id','myflash', 'width','379', 'height','25', 'movie','flash/CCB10670_BannerKeystroke.swf', 'quality','high', 'bgcolor','#000000', 'allowScriptAccess','sameDomain', 'align','middle', 'WMode','Transparent');
createCookie('ciaBannerflashPlayed',1,0);
}
</script>
Clicky keyboard, I'd say:
https://www.cia.gov/flash/CCB10670_BannerKeystroke.swf (http://"https://www.cia.gov/flash/CCB10670_BannerKeystroke.swf)
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Pretty interesting as far as web design goes. Must be html 5/javascript. Cause it only happens when you first visit it, then I guess it's saved in a cookie or something that you've visited the site, cause it doesn't happen again after.
Looking through the source, it's really well annotated. lol
No, I'd say it's a bit dated...and most likely those comments have other purposes.
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Pretty interesting as far as web design goes. Must be html 5/javascript. Cause it only happens when you first visit it, then I guess it's saved in a cookie or something that you've visited the site, cause it doesn't happen again after.
Looking through the source, it's really well annotated. lol
as pointed out its js/flash. no html5, look at the DTD.
I get that typing and the sound each and every time I reload/revisit the page. Pretty poor web design IMO.
Then you aren't accepting cookies, they HAVE actually designed it to play just the once.
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Agree with Julle, someone should post this on that Bad Website thread that MSW created a few weeks back.
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Ah it is flash, thanks a lot. Really interesting. Wonder why I didn't get the flash thing when I right clicked on it...strange.
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No, I'd say it's a bit dated...and most likely those comments have other purposes.
Yeah I guess it is a bit dated now that I know it's flash and has lots of tables and stuff still in it instead of pure css. I couldn't find the flash in the source, so was confused.
Thanks for breaking out the javascript and the flash file Soarer. Pretty interesting.
It's interesting that it would use a flash banner. Isn't that against some government regulation for web sites or something? Maybe not cause it doesn't affect accessibility or something.
Maybe they kept it simple on purpose since it's probably pretty frequently a target for hackers. lol
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I think the effect is to simulate the noise of a teleprinter rather than a keyboard. The concept is to evoke an image of a Model 19 teleprinter in which an important telegram from abroad containing a message of life-or-death import is appearing.
The noise is just not made quite that loud to avoid scaring off visitors to the web site.
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It sounds like a model m, or alps keys though, not a typewriter or teleprinter... lol
Here's a model number 20. I suppose it is closer, but it doesn't have that background hum, which might make it more clear.
Even so I don't get the point of using something like that. The point is that they're outdated, or that they have been around a long time? roflol
Damn that's some awesome technology though. It's like a robot.
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Very clever actually.
You guys must have not noticed the virus scanning your hard disk for CP and "Osama Is Da Man" references.
That's FBI, not CIA (unless you accessed the site from outside the US. Germans, be afraid, be VERY afraid!)
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Here's a model number 20.
I didn't even know they made a model like that which could print in lower-case. I knew there were TTY codes with lower-case, but I thought they ran teletypesetting equipment. Or Flexowriters - of which I have a couple of proportional-spacing ones that use a code like that described.
Still, I suppose it makes sense to have something with which to monitor those circuits that only uses paper instead of hot lead.