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Thanks to Hacker, Vogue UK's New Fashion Rage: Dinosaurs in Hats

By Rain Noe - July 12, 2013

in Fashion Design

I'm aware there's no real rivalry between the fields of industrial design and fashion design, and with friends in the latter profession it would be rude of me to publicly admit I think ill of that industry; but I can freely say we ID'ers are probably envious of their budgets. So yes, it's with a certain amount of glee that I report the hacking of Vogue UK's website.

Some code whiz with a strange sense of humor has rendered extra, dinosaur-based functionality onto their homepage. As of press time, when you visit Vogue's site and use your keyboard to type in this sequence...

Up, up, down down, left right, left, right, B, A

...and then you keep hitting "A," you get an awesome parade of dinosaurs—velociraptors, I think—wearing an assortment of fee-yancy little hats.

If the hacker responsible is reading this and targets us next, please don't give us anything so tacky; we'd like velociraptors lounging in Eames chairs.

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AW

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Agreed. The file name of the raptor images show that they live within Vogue's media folders which would imply they were put there buy Vogue web staff.
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Lucky

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here's a list of sites with the Konmai Code: http://konamicodesites.com/
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Tim

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I don't think it's a hack. I think it's an easter egg. You get a debugging console if you instead do up, up, down down, left right, left, right, A, B.
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Dalibor

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The code used on the site is known as the "Konami Code", used in video games in the 80s and 90s by Japan's Konami Corp to grant extra lives, invincibility, etc.

It's found on *a lot* of websites, as designers tend to place it in as an Easter egg to do different things.
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