There are several notations on the Blast Door Map that appear to be dates. Some appear to indicate a "shutdown" occurred. What was shutdown and why it was shutdown are unknown. These dates use a month/day/year format. There is another date reference to a zoological research facility and a reference to something called an AH/MDG incident of 1985.
Date Notations on Hidden Map
Enhanced closeup of dates at 6:00 on the Blast Door Map
Enhanced closeup of date in the top right corner of the Blast Door Map
Enhanced closeup of the notation at 10:00 on the Blast Door Map
Enhanced closeup of the notation at 4:00 on the Blast Door Map
At 6:00 on the hidden map, located next to “I AM HERE” is the notation:
- stationwide
- failure of
- dharmatel intranet
- 4.08.00, 8.15.01,
- 01.06.03 - complete shutdown in effect
- The last date is NOT "01.06.05", as it might appear to some. If you compare how the last digit is written to the way 3s and 5s are throughout the map, it is written like the 3s.
- There are just over 14 months between each of the three dates (494 days & 509 days)
Immediately above this text is the notation:
- home of H.G. delegation
- inspection 12.07.81
In the top right corner of the map is the notation:
- suspected
- shut down date
- 10.28.84
At 10:00 on the map, located near the Staff, is the notation:
- caduceus
- station
- believed to have
- been abandoned
- due to AH/MDG
- incident of 1985
At 4:00 on the map is the notation:
- rev – 4.2.02
- possible location of
- zoological research
- facility
Theories and commentary
Implied timeline
It's not clear whether certain numbers are dates, or what notations, if any, are meant to be associated with those dates, but a reasonable extrapolation of notes on the map yields the following timeline.
- 7 December 1981: HG delegation inspection
- 28 October 1984: Suspected shutdown
- 1985: MDG/AH incident
- 8 May 2000: Complete DHARMAtel shutdown in effect
- 15 August 2001: Complete DHARMAtel shutdown in effect
- 3 April 2002: A cryptic note on left side of map refers to "possible location of Zoological research facility". The date the creator of the map found it? The date of a message from "REV" about the facility?
- 6 January 2003: Complete DHARMAtel shutdown in effect