Quick answer: Ong's Hat is one of the earliest Internet-based secret history conspiracy theories. It was created as a piece of collaborative fiction by four core individuals, dating back to the 1980s, although the membership propagating the tale changed over time. Ong's Hat is often cited as the first alternate reality game on many lists of ARGs. An FAQ can be found at https://josephmatheny.com/some-ongs-hat-audio-and-video-pieces/
A collection of text, audio, and video pieces about the Ong’s Hat ARG project
FULL LIST OF RELATED INTERVIEWS AND REVIEWS HERE
VIDEO
AUDIO
The Origin Story of Joseph Matheny and the Ong’s Hat ARG
Multipart audio series
Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know: The Strange Story of Ong’s Hat
The Red Pages Podcast: Episode 154: Chatting with Joseph Matheny
ARG Pioneer Joseph Matheny on the Counterculture’s Hijacking from Corporatization to QAnon
Slate-Decoder Ring: The Incunabula Papers
WEB/PRINT
Ong’s Hat: The Beginning Authorized Version (Book)
Center your Schizowave (An interview w Joseph Matheny)
Ong’s Hat on TVTropes
Der vielleicht älteste Internet-Mythos überhaupt: Das Mysterium von Ong’s Hat
Technikart 273 Digital Version
Gizmodo-Ong’s Hat: The Early Internet Conspiracy Game That Got Too Real
Alternate Reality Games | Ong’s Hat | Know Your Meme
The Rise Of The ARG: Games™ investigates alternate reality games and what the future has in store for the curious experiment
Ong’s Hat on Wikipedia
Jorge Flores
ONG’S HAT and the construction of a suspicious model reader
Jorge Flores
Ong’s Hat: The Beginning: CERN, Many Worlds, MMORPGs (QAnon), ARGs “The Beast”, HALO and Artificial Intelligence
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