Information Society - White Roses
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. HISTORY . In 1997, Kurt Harland of Information Society released InSoc's last complete album to date, "Don't Be Afraid." One song, "White Roses 1.0," never made it onto the album. In its place, there was track 10. Labelled "White Roses 1.0 300 8-N-1," it consisted of 55 seconds of modem noise. The tones could be decoded by anyone who picked up on the hints in the track title - 300 baud, 8 bits, No parity, 1 stop bit. When played into the modem of a PC running terminal software set to the above parameters, the tones translated into the following text:
And so began the search.
Unfortunately, due to the nature of the Internet, some of the sites hiding the parts of the track eventually moved or vanished, making the puzzle impossible to solve. Since nobody was willing to throw around the huge WAV in those days, the MP3 version (encoded at a now-anemic 112 kps, and coming in at just over 6 megs) was all that was left. Posted to various websites, and later swapped around the various filesharing services, the track was and is freely made available to all who searched for it.
Since the readily available, but low-quality, MP3 really isn't up to modern standards, I spent a while looking for the original WAV. Most people who had it at one time had deleted it long ago, and were stuck with the MP3 themselves. Fortunately, Kurt Harland happened upon a posting by me in Livejournal's InSoc community, and generously offered to share the WAV from his own archives. Many thanks to Kurt! True to the instructions, I'm still doing my best to spread it around. |
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. LYRICS . Do you feel small Can you stand sunlight
Can you see home Do you walk the world
It's the white roses
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