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For some, it’s just another TV programme. For others, Lost is a completely new type of media that pervades the entire web and blurs the line between reality and fiction. Rarely has a show swamped the web with so many hoax sites, fan portals, forums and sites deliberately seeded by the programme’s creators.
There’s www.thehansofoundation.org and www.dharmaindustries.com, both part of an alternate reality game we looked at in the last issue. And Oceanic World Air, the airline that Lost passengers were flying with, has two sites: www.oceanic-airlines.com and www.oceanicworldair.com. Many pseudo sites have been set up by devoted fans, but often you can’t even tell whether it’s fake or another official site that could be part of ‘The Lost Experience’. Do you need to enter the infamous sequence of numbers at 10800.org, at www.enterthecode.com or at zach.dmarie.com? Does DriveSHAFT (www.driveshaftband.com) really exist and will they release an album soon? And did Hurley really win the jackpot (megalottojackpot.com)?
Lost addicts speculate about the tiniest details on a selection of forums, such as losttv-forum.com, www.thefuselage.com and www.4815162342.com). For example, said numbers have been interpreted to be the approximate latitude and longitude of an island (tinyurl.com/q8fra), which turns out to be Kosrae, the ‘jewel of micronesia’. While this might be an interesting fact, you can’t help but think that some people take the whole thing a bit too seriously. Just browse through www.lostlinks.net, which contains a dizzying amount of links.
Jackpot! You could be forgiven for thinking that some fat dude had really won the lotteryWiki power
Most theories can naturally be found on the show’s dedicated wikis: Lostpedia.org contains almost 1,000 articles, followed closely by the LOST Wiki at lost.wikia.com. There’s nothing that can’t be dissected – the show is crammed with mysteries, which probably don’t mean anything at all. However, it becomes most entertaining when you leave the well-trodden path of theories and hoax sites. Fan fiction is slightly disturbing anyway, but with Lost, it reaches a whole new level.
There’s some general stuff at lost-fanfic.com, and plenty of interesting fan art; a site entirely dedicated to Kate and Sawyer (www.kateandsawyer.co.uk) and Lost Fan Fiction (lostfanfiction.blogspot.com), where one guy has been writing about the people in the plane’s tail section since April last year. The best bits, however, are tongue-in-cheek tributes such as the ingenious Lost Rhapsody (www.weirdal.com/lostrhapsody/lostrhapsody.htm).