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Earth Aid Unite Concert
| EarthAid Unite | |
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| Genre | |
| Dates | January 14–19, 2001 |
| Attendance | 2,377,173 (Combined, and doesn't count set attendances) |
| Organized by | Doug Morris |
| Website |
www |
EarthAid Unite (or Earth Aid Unite, EarthAid, and EAID) was a multi-venue benefit concert and music-based fundraising initiative held on January 14, 2001 to January 19, 2001 during peace talks between the Combine and United Nations representative, Wallace Breen. The event was organized by several high-level music executives, with Doug Morris being the self appointed lead member of the multi-venue event, and was to raise awareness and funds to support people in need after the Seven Hour War and Xenian Invasions that had taken either 24 hours prior, or a month prior. Earth Aid was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London, attended by 102,833 people, John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, attended by 193,773 people, Japan National Stadium in Shinjuku, attended by 174,731 people. Online concerts were also held by famous artists with the help of EarthAid, but were considered separate from it because they had used different types of material to promote their efforts to spread peace, before being labeled under the banner of EarthAid Unite by the organizers Jonny Greenwood, and Doug Morris on January 18, 2001.
On the same day, solo concerts inspired by EarthAid Unite in countries such as in South Korea, China, Australia, Austria, and Germany took place. It is the sole largest satellite link ups and television broadcasts of all time; an estimated audience of 4.4 billion, in 194 nations, watched the live broadcast, almost the entire remaining population post-Xen invasion, 92.3% of the world's population. It was the biggest live event to ever take place, with nearly 2.4 million people in attendance, combined, in all six concert venues. The country with the most people accessing the concert through television or the internet was Poland (97.23%), and the country with the least was New Zealand (12.3%).
The impact of EarthAid Unite on uniting the human race and providing assistance was undebated for years, and even still. One aid worker stated that people across the world have been assisting in the process of aiding the ill and refugees, saying, "EarthAid has been the next best thing since the United Nations, bringing all of us together and eventually causing millions to come and help us. They may not be educated as much as health workers, but it still helps when you have random people letting you do medical work in their homes." Wallace Breen, the leading head of the peace efforts of the Combine, spoke with the Combine about the concert, and stated that, "The Combine took consideration over the concert, but their mind is still made up—However, they will be taking extra precautions with the Human Race, letting us have more freedom of movement, but still vow to unite us all." He also said that, "It is amazing that we took an issue that was unable to be helped, and helped it through the lingua franca of the planet — which is not English nor rock 'n' roll, but music — we were all able to unite through the circumstances, pushing through the hard situation, and managed to convince the Combine that we aren't some monkey-brained race." In another interview, he stated that EarthAid "created hope amongst survivors" but also reassured them that the Combine didn't care.
The organizers of EarthAid ran aid efforts directly, channeling millions of Pounds, Yen, and Dollars to hospitals across the world in Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, Oceania, and South America. It has also been alleged that some of this went to several platforms that the Combine had set up in order to take advantage of the Human race, perpetuated by Breen, who spoke about this accusation in a Breencast in January 2003, saying, "I did not 'Take Advantage' of anything, nor anyone. The Combine attempted to salvage what was left of the economy, attempt to raise the spirits of Humanity, but did not. It failed, and that is why we don't use currency or any filthy money. It only undermines science." — to which millions opposed, and rioted about in the streets before being shot down by the Combine — It was also alleged that it was spent on luxuries by Breen and Morris, with Morris denying it, instead implying that Breen had taken the money out of his hands and spent it on luxuries that assisted in his deal with the Combine, to which, many opposed. Although, the United Nations World Service program EarthOnline, reported in March 2004 that the funds were purely spent by Breen, and Morris had actually been lied to, not receiving a single penny. Wallace Breen, Ambassador to the Combine in response shut down the initiative and said that it had been a lie.
The Terminal
The Terminal (The World Terminal, or TWT) was an American daily newspaper based in New York City. The World Terminal covered domestic, national, and international news, and published opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, it served as one of the country's newspapers of record.
 Logo of Black Mesa NETMAIL, circa 2001. | |
 Screenshot of Black Mesa NETMAIL's log-in screen, December 1, 2000. | |
Type of site | Webmail |
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| Available in | 133 languages |
| Founded | January 4, 1993 |
| Dissolved | December 8, 2000 |
| Country of origin | United States of America |
| Area served | Black Mesa Research Facility |
| Owner | Black Mesa IT Division |
| President | Wallace Breen |
| URL |
www |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Required |
| Users | 2,083 (December 2000) |
| Current status | Shutdown |
Content license | Proprietary |
| Written in | Java, C++ (back-end), JavaScript (UI) |
Black Mesa NETMAIL
Black Mesa NETMAIL is the email service provided by the Black Mesa Research Facility for clients of the facility. As of December 2000, it had 2,083 active users that were also employed at the Black Mesa Research Facility, making it the largest government-affiliated email service in the world. It also provides a webmail interface, that pops out a separate window when accessed by web browser, it was also accessible through the Nokia 6210's email service that was available for around eleven months until the Black Mesa Incident took place. Black Mesa NETMAIL also supported the use of third-party email clients through it's 'BMRF' protocols, an early version of POP and IMAP.
At its launch in 1993, Black Mesa NETMAIL provided a storage capacity of 4 gigabytes per user, an extreme increase from prior capacities of 500 megabytes, because future email provider, Gmail, would only provide 1 gigabytes of storage capacity per user. At the date of dissolution, it had 25 gigabytes of storage information for free for individuals, and was able to be increased if payment was given to the Black Mesa Computer Science division, being able to increase it to 50 gigabytes. Users could receive emails up to 1 gigabyte in size, but emails reaching above 800 megabytes would have issues with compression and not sending, as the biggest email ever sent through the Email service (3 gigabytes in size) caused entire systems to crash, and allegedly led to the Black Mesa Incident five days afterwards, due to systems not being able to handle the big size of the email. NETMAIL had a search-oriented interface and supports a "conversation view" similar to an Internet forum. The service was notable among website developers for its incredibly early-on adoption of Ajax when it was being developed in March 1999.
Black Mesa's mail servers automatically scan emails for multiple purposes to filter spam and Malware, which was notorious among Black Mesa personnel as many employees would spam Internet memes and hoaxes that would clog up the servers, leading Wallace Breen to speak about the issue, saying, "It has come to my attention that many of you are hogging important internet space for useless wisecrack quips. If you are participating in this activity, we will review your continued employment at this facility, please do not waste important space for useless material." The company was the subject in the Black Mesa Personnel Trial that saw the imprisonment of many former Black Mesa personnel, and was used to prove that the Black Mesa Incident was a prior concern by important figures like Eli Vance, and employees like Gordon Freeman, who were missing at the time of interrogation when the Trial was occurring, with the latter expressing concerns about the previous system crashes and email in leaked NETMAIL conversations between Eli Vance, Isaac Kleiner, and Gordon Freeman that took place over a couple of days. NETMAIL employees have stated that email users must "necessarily expect" their emails to be subject to automated processing and claims that the service refrains from displaying ads next to potentially sensitive messages, such as those mentioning race, religion, sexual orientation, health, or financial statements in January 1995, and in June 1999, announced the end of advertisements when writing and receiving emails.