To counter this, construction of the first Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System ( GLaDOS) begins in Aperture Laboratories, with the aims to accelerate the 'Portal' project and to develop the first Artificial Intelligence. In 1986, Aperture Science heard of similar portal technology being developed by Black Mesa. Testing for the 'Portal' project calls for the construction of the Enrichment Center, a large area of the Aperture Laboratories Underground consisting of Test Chambers and offices, where Test Subjects test the ASHPD. He then laid out a three-tier plan for the future of his company: the Heimlich Counter-Maneuver, the Take-A-Wish Foundation, and most notably, the 'Portal' project, which gives birth to the development of the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device.
It is unknown if the same complex is used during the time Aperture was a shower curtain manufacturer.Īfter contracting moon rock poisoning in 1974, both of Aperture CEO Cave Johnson's kidneys failed in 1976. Built in Michigan, USA sometime after the founding of Aperture Science in 1947 when Aperture's products were branded 'Aperture Science Innovators'.
