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Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures:
The areas within SCP-XXXX’s range of operation will always remain supplied with high-speed broadband internet services to deter the general public from subscribing to the affected dial-up services. However, to ensure SCP-XXXX’s continued existence, internet service providers must continue to offer dial-up services indefinitely in these areas regardless of low financial incentive to do so.
Every 7 days, a member of Mobile Task Force Gamma-16 (“Moderators”) is instructed to connect to SCP-XXXX-3 using a standard 56k modem and monitor popular social media sites for posts referencing events that occurred after SCP-XXXX’s cutoff date. They are to immediately remove such posts, and trace the poster’s IP in order to locate them and administer Class A amnestics, as well as cancel their dial-up internet plan and provide them with a free 12-month subscription to a random internet service provider.
Description:
SCP-XXXX is a set of three anomalous dial-up Internet access numbers, located in different areas across North America. SCP-XXXX-1, representing the access number (250) - ███ - ████ , is accessible from the towns of Ladysmith, Lantzville, and Nanaimo in the Canadian province of British Columbia. SCP-XXXX-2, representing the access number (505)- ███ - ████, is accessible from the city of Carlsbad and the nearby towns of Roswell and Lovington in New Mexico. SCP-XXXX-3, representing the access number [REDACTED], is accessible from ███████, Michigan and the nearby Site-██. These access numbers do not appear to be tied to a single service provider, and as such can be used by anyone with an active subscription to a dial-up Internet service.
All three access numbers display the same anomalous properties: upon connecting a modem to a phone line in an affected area and dialing the access number, after transmitting standard dial-up connection tones, SCP-XXXX broadcasts a series of tones with seemingly random pitch and frequency, with the pitch wavering up and down every 4 to 6 seconds. This continues for approximately ██ minutes before the modem finally finishes connecting to the Internet.
Once connected, the anomalous properties of SCP-XXXX become even more apparent. The connection speed is much higher than standard dial-up services, far surpassing the maximum theoretical data transfer speed of 56kbps. All web services launched after ██-██-200█ cannot be accessed properly, displaying numerous connection errors and often crashing within █ minutes of loading the page. Sites and services launched before this date are accessible, and appear to use the design/layout that the site originally used during that time period. In the case of sites that allow users to upload their own content, any content uploaded after that date is inaccessible (content uploaded by users of SCP-XXXX is accessible through a standard Internet connection, and always has a posting date equal to SCP-XXXX’s cutoff date). Older sites and services discontinued after that date are still accessible by users of SCP-XXXX; for example, defunct online chat services such as MSN Messenger and AOL Instant Messenger work as expected, allowing users to register accounts, add contacts, and have instant-messaging conversations exactly as they would have prior to the services’ discontinuation. Weather services do not broadcast the location's current weather, instead providing entirely different weather information, which has been proven to match up with weather information for that location on that date in the year 200█.
Other Internet users encountered while connected to SCP-XXXX believe that the current year is still 200█; the exact date during the year is matched, until SCP-XXXX's cutoff date is reached, in which case the date is repeated each day until January 1st of the next year, upon which the date resets to January 1st of 200█.
Discovery:
SCP-XXXX was discovered on May 4th, 2017, after a 5█-year-old woman living in one of the affected areas made numerous calls to Microsoft’s technical support hotline, complaining about how her computer was “sending her Facebook back in time” after switching to a dial-up internet plan due to the high cost of broadband internet in her area. Foundation contacts within Microsoft reported the anomaly to Foundation higher-ups, then amnesticized the woman and offered her free MSN Dial-Up access with a non-anomalous access number until she could find a suitable broadband plan.
Addendum 5/18/2020:
On June 16th, 2020, during a routine social media check, MTF Gamma-16 Agent Ericsson requested permission to create a Windows Live ID for the purpose of conducting an interview with another user via Windows Live Messenger, under the guise of a reporter conducting a survey for a news article. The request was approved, and a copy of the chat logs between Agent Ericsson and a Windows Live Messenger user with the e-mail address “K1LLERGR1LL6969@███████.com” can be found below:
Addendum 5/20/2020:
On June 19th, 2020, an interview was conducted with subject "xXdylan2kXx@██████████.com", again using Windows Live Messenger, this time under the guise of an e-zine columnist writing an article about dial-up Internet's continued use despite its obsolescense. A copy of their chat logs can be found below:
Addendum 7/1/2020
Following the interview with subject "xXdylan2kXx@██████████.com", the Foundation was able to successfully identify their father (henceforth referred to as Subject XXXX-A), a 3█-year-old man named Felix Arnold H█████, who is currently employed as a web developer at Telus Communications Incorporated. MTF Epsilon-6 ("Village Idiots") were able to track down his home in ███████, British Columbia, Canada, and take them into custody for interrogation purposes. See [Interview Log XXXX-01A] for a transcription of Subject XXXX-A's interrogation.
