Portal's Lost Website | Aperturescience.com | FULL Portal ARG & Lore
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2024
- After the release of Portal, fans discovered that the fictional company, Aperture Science, had a very real website in our world. Back then, Valve communicated with their fanbase and created ARG's to immerse them in their next big project.
Unfortunately, we cannot access this website any more but there are still ways to use the system. In this video, I explore aperturescience.com and look at the goldmine of information it gave the player.
Working Command Line
valvearchive.com/web_archive/...
Application Form Questions
half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Enr...
Website
www.aperturescience.com
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
00:50 Portal
02:03 aperturescience.com
07:32 The Aperture Science Application Form
11:11 CJohnson
13:57 Holiday 2010
16:26 The Lost Website
18:22 Closing Thoughts
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Standard Sources
Game Manuals
Half-Life Series Playthrough Research
Portal Series Playthrough Research
Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar
Half-Life: Alyx Playthrough
Portal/ Half-Life Fandom
Old Valve Forums
Marc Laidlaw's Twitter
Breengrub Twitter
Reddit AMA (w/ HL: Alyx Developers)
AUDIO USED
Portal 2 OST: There She Is
Half-Life 2 OST: Triage at Dawn
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What is your favourite Portal game?
Portal
2
I would say Portal. It's the first and has that creepy feeling. If I could replay it for the first time and slowly learn about what had happened to Aperture, I would.
portal 2
2. The story and characters offer a whole lot more. Wheatley is amazing and I love learning about the history of Aperture throughout the decades from everyone's favorite lemon-grenade-throwing madman.
The message you talk about at 16:11 is what appeared on the site right after the potato sack ARG had been "solved" but before it swapped to the GLaDOS@Home one, where all the collected potatoes contributed to "rebooting" GLaDOS. I definitely remember seeing that message after completing the potato sack ARG myself.
The "I know its arriving later than expected" is because everyone was speculating that solving the ARG would end with Valve releasing Portal 2 immediately/days early, but in the end it only sped up the release time by about 10-15 minutes or something.
Either way it was something really cool to be a part of, and very memorable (and as a bonus I now get all of Valve's games free for life on my steam account!)
Did they keep that promise with HL: Alex?
@@KiraSlith yup, HLA just appeared in my account for free when preloading was available. Also got Artifact (and the early beta) but that was uh… less impressive
did other people get valves games for free for life when they completed it? or were you the lucky person who did it first
you’re my favorite valve lore channel. thanks for the content
Thank you :D There's so much more to cover!
Portland 2 fans when they see a black hole:
bro I think it’s portal 💀
@@templarianthefirst9022 No it's Portugal
Portable 3 leaks be like:
@@elijahbaley5556 portugal. The first human society to invent portal travel.
pornal 2 💀💀💀
While I remember the ARG, I never played around with either of these sites. Really cool that they are archived for posterity since so many ARG sites are lost in time when the company just pulls them offline.
I mean recently the creators of Portal have talked about wanting to make a third game and even a movie, they just need to get a team together so there's still hope. Correct me if I'm wrong but most of Valve's games were made for mainly the purpose of trying out new technology. I mean Portal 2 was made for improved graphics, Half-Life: Alyx was made for VR and now we have the Steam Deck so possibly we could get a full-on Portal 3 for the console~
Though we already did get Aperture Desk Job for the Steam Deck, so I wouldn't be surprised if that's all we get (but I am going to hope and wish for something more).
I always thought a good idea for a sequel would involve GLaDoS needing chell to assist her... Like say she gets a virus, and needs chell to do her thing, and kill it.
How? By using a special headset to enter her code itself, testing in a NEW environment making use of a different KIND of portal. Thus no worry about nausea or anything.
Start in an dilapidated home, where chell does the initial movement/usage tutorial, etc.
Ends up attacked by some robots trying to bring her back, she fights them off, etc.
Gets a recorded message from her, uses the provided device to end up back.. Turrets are deployed accidentally but they are obviously glitchy, broken speech, erratic movement, etc.
Proving to chell that she really DID need her help, not to worry though after Wheatley's occurence she made modifications to make the reactors self sustaining to prevent ANY potential meltdown while chell is in the code.
Chell goes in, destroys some errored code, malicious code, etc.
Then finds the cause of her glitches... From a source unexpected...
INSIDE aperture itself.
A person who found themselves in a similar situation as caroline, but in an older body. Lost to time.
Cave Johnson who the scientist decided to give him what he wanted... But NOT the facility, leaving him abandoned forever alive in old aperture.
This drove him to try to HACK back into control, inadvertently causing the whole Glados murder event, etc.
Defeating him in the mainframe results in glados shutting down and rebooting to finalize the changes after chell exits the code in a sleep state. *The mental strain was strong due to it being an experimental gadget*
When chell wakes up, she is not greeted by a robot... But a human, a bunch of them.
They say hello, tell her SHE is waiting for you in her chamber.
You would then enter the room, and find a new robot walking around.. Who would then approach you with a familiar voice saying their thanks and saying how it seems that annoyance actually caused her to want to harm people and not just for science.
Her new goal is to actually bring Aperture BACK, humans and robots working in peace to bring about advancements.
I hope one day we get to try out their newest tech the Portable Quantum Tunneling Device too!
with Source 2 stop being a buggy mess
Portal 3 or anything will 3 really will probably get developed
I mean omg
17:20 there's also text on the website, but it's black on a black background. If you select it, you can read: Content on this page requires a newer version of Adobe Flash Player.
Also some details i saw on the application form, it sometimes has flashing letters, which would make the sentece: cake is a lie
It also flashed a ASCII picture of a cake once for me
I'll have to look into that!
@@Skyrionn Any luck?
3:31 Gnome Chompski is Officially part of the Portal Lore!!!!!!!!!!!
4:14 Gnome Chompski is acting like Gman. Always watching the player!! NEW THEORY!!! The "G" in "Gman" stands for "Gnome" man and gnome chompski is in the briefcase of the gman and in half life 3 gman will open the briefcase and reveal that gnome chompski was in it and gman disappears and chompski starts to talk and it will be the best scene in gaming history
The G in GMAN stands for Gordon
It truly Will be awesome chompski, it truly will
I used to dig quite a lot that website. I managed to backup one of the first flash files from the site for the community. Man it's been YEARS. Even the most complete videos on YT still miss quite a few stuff.
KEEP DIGGING. IT'S NOT OVER.
There's more? Hit me up on Twitter! @skyrionn
@@Skyrionn I'm currently searching for the older versions with the parking lot/aperture entrance building loading page
9:00
"if you dissapeared tommorow would anybody miss you"
the fact i saw skyrionn put "2" in but delete it quickly was purely mood 😭
Oh wow this brings me back, used to mess around on this site in highschool (literally half my life ago, god I'm old). Love the video, thanks for showing all this!
You are my favorite lore channel!
your content and lore breakdowns are amazing, and not jumbled up to confuse me at any point.
Your content Helped me overcome my Insomnia and getting through nights that I felt no hope.
Keep up the masterpieces!
this is the best lore channel ive ever watched, keep up the good work
Thanks Caleb.
I have discovered this channel last week and i literally fall in love with your contact
Keep doing more ❤
And also please make a video about the potato sack arg i REALLY want to hear it from you
You are my favourite Valve (especially half-life) lore channel. Even the tone of your voice matchs the mostly sad nature of Valve games.
loved the video👍 Even after a decade there are new things to discover about this game.
I'm happy to dig them up and let you know about them!
Happy holidays and thank you for the content. You are awesome.
Thanks for watching! I appreciate you being here!
Impecable work as usual my man
Bro these videos are so underrated
That's kind of you to say! Thank you
We need more Half-Life Narrative Universe (HLNU) games on Steam/Console *and* more well planned/executed ARGs in general. AWESOME stuff.
I 100%. I fear this form of interaction between developer and gamer has disappeared. We need to bring this back.
@@Skyrionn unfortunately gaming isn’t about developers having a unique dream and the desire to create an amazing new gaming experience, but about big corporates making the most money with the least investment: Online Multiplayer, loot boxes, microtransactions and DLCs.
It’s so sad that there was no groundbreaking, focus story based game in a long time..
The last really good thing in my opinion was bioshock infinite.
(Of course there are amazing indie games and mods still, but I’m talking about AAA here)
@@rolux4853 that isnt true half life alyx elden ring to some extent Doom
@@Ubreakable-lr2dk half life: Alyx is really amazing, I just love the whole half life/portal lore and alyx also was very good!
Unfortunately it was to push their VR sales which are going down rapidly, because somehow PCVR isn’t catching on, even if it’s amazing technology. It’s very sad in my opinion because VR truly is the future and people spend 1000$ on a computer monitor and even more on TVs but think it’s unreasonable for a VR headset to cost that?
The experience with VR is so much better and absolutely unique, so the price is definitely acceptable for a high end VR Headset.
I don’t know about elden ring, as a traditional rpg player I highly dislike it.
Super weird huge weapons.
Super weird huge bosses.
A world that never looks pretty and always weirdly dark and the story is very bad.
Every western rpg is much better than elden ring, maybe Japanese people like this stuff and because manga/anime is all the rage now for kiddies out there they think it’s cool if rpgs are like that.
I’m hoping for the elder scrolls 6 as the next big amazing rpg!
The Witcher was great, but it also was a bit to much action for my taste.
My favorite single player rpgs are still the elder scrolls series and the gothic series.
It would be amazing if gothic came back, it was one of the best fantasy rpg franchises!
It's such a shame it was lost! But still, thank you for doing your part to archive and spread awareness of what the website was about
It's another internet treasure. I love stuff like this. Thanks for watching!
If you manage to find a copy of the .swf file and a flash emulator you can actually run it locally on your PC.
its not lost, if the website is still up we can get an old web browser and access the page again, ill see what i can put together and see if the comunity likes it, maybe if we do more digging we can find out more about it.
I remember this. Cannot believe portal came out in 2007, so long ago. And I remember getting the orange box; ancient times of days long past
It's crazy to think it was sooo long ago. I used to love the Orange Box. I must say that my most played game was TF2
I still have the box here lol
I don't know how you manage to post long high quality videos THIS fast one after another but keep at it king :)
You mean weekly? It’s pretty simple, it’s like TH-camrs have been doing this for years…?😂
@Zack Hicks just leaving a compliment my man..
@@Ted4321 and I’m making a comment on what you said. Thanks for establishing obvious things that were said here😂
@@zackhicks5320 >"its pretty simple"
>refuse to elaborate
@@iamalsoaduckhead I didn’t refuse to elaborate. He never once said “please elaborate on what you mean”. Are you unable to read and comprehend what you’re reading?😂
This is going to be good, look forward to it! Merry Christmas by the way !
Thanks Cody for the support all year! Merry Christmas. I hope it's great!
Thanks for the year of great content. Look forward to another year! Have a great one!
I did not know about any of this. One of the many reasons why value knew how to communicate with their fans. Thanks for the video John. Merry Christmas 🎁🎄
Merry Christmas! I'm glad I could introduce something to you that you did not know! I'm hoping one day we will get something similar if Valve ever follow up on Half-Life: Alyx.
@@Skyrionn agreed! Someday I’ll get VR to play Alyx. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Enjoying your vids! Keep it up.
I absolutely loved seeing all the lore I ever could for both Portal and Half Life.
There's so much to cover still too. Still around!
It's good to see you're covering this site, since adobe flash is dead, I couldn't find anything about how it was
Man, I remember discovering this back then and working through it. The excitement I got when I saw the login on the second playthrough and went immediately back to the site.
I did all the questions and got to the end where it asked for the ID and went and redid it all, screencapping and hand writing down the User ID, not knowing it didn't actually work.
It was such a cool thing to discover.
Love your videos happy holidays !!
Happy Holidays! Thanks for the support!
It is incredible. I love this puzzles and I love your videos.
Glad you like them! Thanks for watching! I appreciate it!
That Holiday version of the Companion Cube is so cute
It really is.
bruh you becomed my favorite lore chanell in like 1 day
That's super kind of you to say!
Your vids are so good . Keep up the good work
Thanks, will do!
this has likely been said already but its likely that the clip from david copperfields tornado of fire was of his magic trick called Portal where he pulled a member of his audience and teleported them to a pre-selected location such as hoover dam, hawaii, or australia
That makes perfect sense. Thanks for filling that in for me :D
I remember that Christmas CCTV website but I never gave it much thought. Don't think I even noticed the command line.
We do technically have a new game with Aperture Desk Job, I have it in my library but I have been so focused playing other games on the deck but I should really see if there is any lore in the game but thought you might take a look first.
It doesn't really have anything lore related, you just meet Cave Johnson
Yeah, there's nothing really lore wise. It just gives a small amount of lore for an alternate universe.
@@Skyrionn thank you both for the info :)
Portal content that released 6 days ago? I'm so happy
8:44 The 58th cake is "Vanilla Crazy Cake" which may be a reference to a removed GLaDOS voiceline, which is basically an extended version of the intelligence core dialogue.
GLaDOS would repeat "Vanilla crazy cake" multiple times before moving on with a bizarre cake recipe.
amazing video
Glad you think so!
Im happily waiting for the next portal video
There will be more next year!
I stumbled upon your channel in the begining of the year and I'm Glad I did. You do a truly quality content, I wonder if you would do videos about the Team Fortress 2 universe too.
Anyways I wish you Happy and Relaxed Holdiays, see you next year.
Team Fortress 2 will be coming in the new year :D Thanks for the support! Happy Holidays to you too!
love your vids
Thanks for watching :D
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
Just a tip, custom browsers made for stuff such as old flash games do exist, and could probably be used to view the website in its last form if you ever revisit this!
Before I watched this, so I didn’t know it was down, I opened the page and gave me the gladOS message
Portal 2 is best but this link just reveal my appetite for more lore I can finally know more of the portal universe and what seems to be Aperture Science
Leaving a comment for the algorithm. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas! Thanks for the support.
Can you do a video covering the Black Mesa Pizza ARG? Its hard to find the whole story online and it seems like a pretty big part of games community so id love to see the full story.
I could actually look into that. I've seen the pizza's when exploring the maps but never looked into it.
Btw, there exists an extension called ruffle that emulates flash so you can probably view the website.
yeah it works
i just love these videos
Thanks for watching them!
wow this channel is a diamond in the haystack
That's super kind. Thank you!
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas!
The flashing letters on the application would be one of the ways to get the "thecakeisalie" prompt
good eye
I dont know if he mentioned it but on the archive website there was a question about light and a prisim I started noticing flashing letters along the test could this mean a new arg
it does it at multiple questions, makes a sentence if you put them all together, either 'cake is a lie' or 'the cake is a lie'
@@1alexwel oh alright
unexpecting interesting video
Been binging these Valve game history/timeline videos and it really hit me just how great Valve used to be and how quiet they've been since Portal 2. I followed every leak about Portal 3 and Left 4 Dead 3, saw the pictures and screenshots of their work on L4D3 with Source 2, etc. I lost all hope when Marc Laidlaw left Valve but then I was finally excited when HL Alyx came out thinking they were finally gonna start working on games again and then AGAIN we were greeted with nothing but radio silence. Growing up with the HL universe and adoring it for being one of the most original IP's to exist and how everything is seemingly tied together by little hints and clues scattered through each game has kept me hooked and then it just stopped, I'm worried we'll never see a continuation or ending as all the original story writers and devs at Valve get older and older and start to retire. It's been over a decade since we had any real development in the story and HL Alyx was just one big retconn so it doesn't really count. And I keep hearing these stories about how so and so higher up dev at Valve wants to make a new L4D or new Portal or new Half Life but they're not being given the man power to start the project so it just makes me wonder what the heck is going on over there that's keeping everyone so busy that they can't actually make games anymore.
Atleast half life alyx actually came to fruition, it shouldn't have restored your faith tho, not with their track record lol, abolish those expectations because as you said yourself all the ogs are gone it'll just never be quite the same
@@imonke5303 Yeah my thought process when Alyx was announced was; New engine, new HL game. Maybe they'll actually start dropping new games again but nope. And don't get me wrong, I'm glad HLA at least pushed the story further but all we really got was a change in Episode 2's ending and like 3 extra seconds of actual story continuation. HLA proved they can still make a game and continue the story with who they have currently but they need to actually continue the games/story.
@@CheekyChan fair, guess it's a matter of them not being lazy now and actually trying to get manpower behind these games, guess only time will tell once again.
I don’t know if you do like speculative theories but I remember when before JJ Abram’s movie Super 8 came out, there was an interactive feature in the game of portal 2 I guess in like the extras menu? It was years ago so my memory might be hazy but I remember it involved the train crash from the movie and the alien that broke free. I was wondering what your thoughts were on it?
So, something really interesting i found while bored one night, in the modern AS website, if you Google the url, and check images, there's these strange, almost Aztec looking squares, going to the page for that reveals, i believe, 20 of these squares aligned on a grid in a black page, the squares don't do anything, there's nothing else to see as far as I can tell, i made a reddit post almost a year ago but no one had any clue what it could be
Blue yo-yo yeah yo-yo yeah
I'm gonna have to look in to this.
@@Skyrionn yeah it's strange, i can link you to my post if youd like
I did find the video that was leading you to when you would say, "PLAY PORTAL"/
Btw,Have you tried to used the waybackmachine on the website?I remember a video shown another user and password :D
the reason you can't enter your uin at the end of the application is because the uin is case sensitive and the terminal only accepts upper case inputs
Nice vid
Thank you!
Wow I had no idea
Is it possible that you can play through the serious sam games and make a video on it (lore wise)
9:05 better evil Aperture than apocalypse causing Black Mesa
on page 24, the k in know fades in and out when the rest doesnt, same goes for the e in example on page 30, and more
at 15:55 who ever said that was galdos it might be a differnt bot considering that galdos is dead in between portal 1 and portal 2 and it wouldn't be wheatly or a core but an ai like galdos who is simulating the world of portal and half-life
Is this recorded in GMOD? I can see the glitchy portal in the relaxation vault scene.
The scene you're talking about was. The rest I think was in Portal.
8:30 the letter is H, in the text of the question the leter H is flashing.
You could try use the wayback machine to help lost stuff
I tried that and got an error message.
you can open the website with old version of portable browser
Imagine if they made something between portal and half life
You can probably see the videos on the website using a program that still has flash. Like flash browser
My very first computer game was half life its kinda bad to get Spoiler with such a masterpiece it was hard for me to meet the expectations in other games because it had such a high standart.
8:32 I think the answer is H. the H in "Dwayne has no preference" is fading in and out. Then again, a few of the letters were doing the same in other places, and I'm sure somebody's figured out every appearance and their meanings.
It spells out "The cake is a lie" and to secure that in. once the last letter is discovered, a cake is flashed on screen
I'm gonna have to look into it but it appears that people may have figured out it spells the cake is a lie
@@Skyrionn de slice of caek on the last flashing letter
the website is still up, if we use an old version of a web browser we can get the matching version of flash and then access the webpage again.
I tried a bunch of different ways but couldn't get it running! Let me know if you find a way.
New videooooo!!
Thanks for watching!
the creative ways companies avoid saying Christmas
The portal gun is cool, but I just want ANY game set in aperture. Like a prequel or something.
Favourite letter answer according to ChatGPT:
To solve this problem, let's analyze the given information step by step:
1. We know that Sally, Dwayne, Anthony, David, and Franklin are exactly 10 years apart in age.
2. Let's assume the age of the youngest person, David, as "D" years.
3. Sally is two years older than David, so her age would be "D + 2" years.
4. Dwayne, Anthony, and Franklin's ages can be expressed as multiples of 10 years added to David's age:
- Dwayne's age: "D + 10x" years
- Anthony's age: "D + 10y" years
- Franklin's age: "D + 10z" years
Now, let's consider the favorite letters:
1. David's favorite letter is 'g'.
2. Anthony's favorite letter is also 'g'.
3. Dwayne insists that he likes all the letters equally except for 's'.
4. Sally's favorite letter is not mentioned explicitly.
5. Franklin's favorite letter is the missing piece of information we need to find.
Since Dwayne likes all the letters except for 's', we can assume that his favorite letter is any letter other than 's'. Therefore, we can assign Dwayne the letter 'g' as well.
Now, we have the following information:
- David's favorite letter: 'g'
- Dwayne's favorite letter: 'g'
- Anthony's favorite letter: 'g'
Given that three of the five people have their favorite letter as 'g', it would be reasonable to assume that Franklin's favorite letter is 'g' as well.
Therefore, Franklin's favorite letter is 'g'.
ValveArchive my beloved
A great resource.
I wonder, could the WAYBACK machine site be used to see that site as it was?!
Sadly not!
I went through the website while watching this video, to notice an image that I barely caught popping up on page 16
I'll have to look that up
You could always use an older browser that still has flash to access the site
I gave that a go but it didn't work sadly.
or use ruffle (flash emulator for browsers)
Hey I don't think you ever make a video on half Life 2 them small creature in the water when you go out of bounds ?
5:54 if you actually hit enter it'll take you to this log section, though i dont think its that important but just wanted to point that out
8:30 the 'h' in 'has' (in the sentence 'has no preference') is blinking.
I hope the independent people making the 2 different versions of Half-Life 3 release this 2023. Both looked great but have been silent about updates for almost a year
*Begins research*
8:34 Did you notice that "S" is not part of the selectable options?
and to this day we till dont know what franklins favorite letter is
hey just fyi the full website, also without the videos, is on the wayback machine too
15:36 the music sounded kinda weird there
Loving the Portal content dude, just beat the games for the first time a few days ago and eating up all the lore I can get.
I'm so jealous but I am glad you have joined the community! I'm also glad I can help with your understanding of the lore. There's more to come!
Appreciate this moment, cause you're going to miss it.
I am always mourning the experience I had when I found out about Portal 1 and 2 for the first time 😭
You actually can access the Website, you need for that an Website Archive Site, there you can access to the old version of the Site.
Lemme know if you find one that works ☺
"Greg! A hacker got in the site again!"
Does anyone know the answer to the favourite letter page?
i remeber when i first played portal i heard that companion cubes can stab you and when i got to level with companion cube i was so scared
Luckily not haha! We love the companion cubes!
You should release a lore video on apeil fools day soley focused on the neurotoxin generator.
💪🏽