http://mebious.co.uk/
21 09 2007In layer:06 of Serial Experiments Lain1, a gauge on Lain’s liquid cooling system is shown twice. Both times, “mebious.co.uk” is shown.
It’s linked to from the top left of http://www.guevin.com/ (the text is white on white so you’ll have to highlight it to see it).
mebious.co.uk itself used to show http://www.monkie.f2s.com/mebious/ in a frame and redirect repeatedly to http://www.ukresistance.co.uk/ (it’s now self contained, although the content is the same, so I think it’s still operated by UKResistance). Its favicon is an allusion to the pressure gauge in Lain that the URL was displayed on.
According to this Everything2 entry, it used to be fake so perhaps UKResistance are just capitalising on the fact that there was nothing there before to increase their own traffic. And Anime-Myth.com implies a connection with Baudrillard, a notion I obviously really want to entertain (watch out, the site’s very pink).
Having said that, why would a .co.uk thing be inserted into SEL? I don’t know if it’s just the UK version that has it - others say they’ve seen it, but I can’t be sure where their versions were ripped from. I suspect that it’s in all of them.
Earradhubh found Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mebious.co.uk.
Have a look at the Wayback Machine for its history (relatively boring).
For more discussion on Lain - or for now, text from the artbook omnipresence in wired - see http://disinformatics.com/lain.html.
Pax
1 In this case I was watching the English dub on my Region 2 box set
I am rewatching the series in subs (jap with english subs) and I just saw this(mebious.co.uk) in layer 06 too.
I cannot recall if it was present in the dub.
’twas I think.
I will rewatch as soon as I get my DVDs back from my friend…
Woah. Well, I found an old Wikipedia entry on it - or, at least, a discussion about its deletion. Apparently it used to just be a grey website with the URL printed on it.
I’ll see if I can find any more :p