alternate earth?

Back in the early nineties when the net consisted mainly of usenet news, ftp and email, I came across a plan in a news group.

Or rather a project. The group was writing, in secrecy, an alternate future, news clippings and press releases of events two years in their future. They intended to release these assorted tales onto the net in real time giving them a two year moving window to construct the alternate information, an alternate memesphere.

I wasn't a contributor despite the temptation that such a time waster was to a grad student. And so, I was not in on the secrets. I lost track of the group, and never knew if they'd kept the project going.

That was perhaps 15 or even 17 years ago, and I'm left now with a puzzle. Did they in fact carry out the plan? Have false and alternative story lines been released over that time?

Does anyone know the source? Or seen traces of this project?

I'm just curious if we are in fact living on an alternate earth without realising it.

C