Roblox.org

So a while back - 12 years ago, my brother used to play Roblox a lot. Now, I don't know anything about Roblox, other than my brother playing the game. Sometimes I would watch him play the game, and I've got to admit, it does look fun. I never actually got the chance to play Roblox, as I was very busy with school, so I mostly just ignored it.

So it was an afternoon in 2011, I was watching TV and the commercials came. I always ignored the commercials and just focused on other things, but then a Roblox ad came out of nowhere. The game did look very fun! - It showed a lot of games, characters, ect. But, something was clearly up. I've managed to find the same Roblox ad on YouTube, but it was different. The ad on the TV was very low quality, almost like it's recorded on a phone. The audio was also messed up, again, just like it's recorded on a phone. On the YouTube ad, the watermark clearly reads "Roblox.com", but on the TV, I couldn't make out what it said, due it being low quality. Anyway, The main difference is the end. On the YouTube ad, it shows the Roblox logo, and "ROBLOX.com" underneath it, however, on the TV ad, it instead reads "ROBLOX.org" underneath it. Now I didn't know the real Roblox site, so I thought that ROBLOX.org was the real one. Curious to see what's in the game, I turned on my computer, and opened Firefox to see what Roblox has to offer. I entered the URL, and the site looked - blank. It's just a white background with the Roblox logo slapped on top, and an empty text field with a "Confirm" button underneath. I thought this was the Logon page, but I didn't have an account. I figured that I only need a username to sign up, so I entered "roblox2011" as my username, cause I didn't think of anything else. I clicked on the button, and it redirected me to a new page. Same white background with Roblox logo slapped on top, but the Text field and button are gone, replaced with 3 games. The first one was called "ROBLOX BATTLE" - The second one was simply called "ROBLOX", and the third one was just "game03". They didn't have any thumbnails, just the name and a link.

So I clicked on the first game and I have no idea how, but the whole game was running on the browser, didn't have to download anything! Obviously, it would run poorly. The game was just a white ground with 4 other players. I remember they were called "player01 ; player02 ; player03 ; and player04" They were just standing, not doing anything. As for the characters, they looked nothing like the ad. They were tall white figures, that look a lot like the old Roblox characters. They didn't have any animations either. I could move around, but there wasn't really anything to do. The game ran for 2 minutes, before my browser crashed, possibly due to the game running on the browser. I reopened it again, and went on Roblox, and I didn't have to login, everything was saved.

I decided to check out the second game - "ROBLOX". It was the same white ground, but now the 4 players are gone. It was only me playing the game. This time, I couldn't move, I can only just watch. The game ran for 1 minute, before a second player joined the game. He was called "player00". I could see him for only 10 seconds before my browser crashed again.

I was curious to see what the third game was, so I reopened Roblox and went on the third game - "game03". When i joined, It was entirely empty - no white ground, no characters, no players. Yes, the player list showed nobody, so I technically wasn't in the game. After 20 seconds the game started to fade into black slowly. Then after it faded, the game started blasting colors at very fast speeds, epileptic colors. At the same time, very loud beeps came from the speakers, that were painful to hear. This lasted for about 5 seconds before my computer restarted. It tried booting up, but it always gave this message - "An operating system wasn't found. Try disconnecting any drives that don't contain an operating system." - Turns out, my whole hard drive had been wiped. I don't know how, but I didn't want anything else to happen to my computer, so I quickly grapped a Windows CD and tried reinstalling Windows. When it got to picking where to install Windows, it couldn't recognize the drive - at all. My hard drive hadn't only been wiped, but also killed. I had to buy a new hard drive and replace it. And the new drive worked fine! However, I lost everything on that drive, there were many pictures and videos that weren't anywhere else.

So a few years passed, now it's 2017, and I was curious to see if Roblox.org was up. I went to the site, and it redirected me to the official Roblox site - Roblox.com - Did Roblox always own that URL, or did Roblox just buy it after seeing what it can do? I looked up on Google, if anybody knows about Roblox.org - No results. There were results, but they were just Roblox stuff, not the Roblox.org site. Now, Roblox.org could be a site designed by hackers to get data from hard drives, which could explain the redirecting to Roblox.com, but it doesn't explain the ad that I saw on TV. How did they manage to air a fake Roblox ad on TV? If anybody knows anything about Roblox.org and who created it, or anything about that low quality ad, make sure to let me know. I'm currently trying to find the creators of the site.