In thinking about this...Am wondering if this is not an unexpected malfunction. If this works via mobile and not, say, via desktop web browser, doesn't that depict the whole point of the site/initiative: That not everyone can equally experience the internet, or has equal access to the internet? If I'm right, this is a clever albeit very, very subtle method to help folks feel what "lack of internet" is like. Welcome to the internet of the third world?
$ whois internet.org
Domain Name:INTERNET.ORG
Created On:19-Oct-1993 04:00:00 UTC
Last Updated On:13-Aug-2013 16:48:00 UTC
Expiration Date:18-Oct-2022 04:00:00 UTC
Facebook did not exist yet in 1993 (Facebook.com itself was registered in 1997)
I didn't get it when I first saw this post. Now that I'm checking it on a computer, I'm getting a blank page. Works like a charm on my iPhone. Same Wi-Fi, same DNS.
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The webarchive has the answers, http://web.archive.org/web/*/internet.org http://web.archive.org/web/20131101125100/http://www.interne...
Can't help but notice the favicon being a Facebook icon.
facebook is behind internet.org[1]
[1]http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/20/facebook-internet-org/
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
I guess that for many people, Facebook _is_ the internet.
oh my god, facebook is the new AOL.
I thought it was some stupidity done by my work's proxy.
What's with that again?
In thinking about this...Am wondering if this is not an unexpected malfunction. If this works via mobile and not, say, via desktop web browser, doesn't that depict the whole point of the site/initiative: That not everyone can equally experience the internet, or has equal access to the internet? If I'm right, this is a clever albeit very, very subtle method to help folks feel what "lack of internet" is like. Welcome to the internet of the third world?
I can't understand why we're bothered about Internet.org - a Facebook-backed effort launched in Aug 2013 - being down?
http://gigaom.com/2013/08/20/facebook-launches-internet-org-...
Unless some of us are thinking it's something else? Like the Internet Archive (that's www.archive.org)?
Strange.
Facebook did not exist yet in 1993 (Facebook.com itself was registered in 1997)Initial creation date survives transfers.
I know, but the question is then: who had it before?
Not only the favicon but http://www.whois.net/whois/internet.org says:
Does anyone know since when? Last change to whois was in August, is that it? I wonder how much they bought it for...
EDIT: found this link: https://www.facebook.com/facebook/posts/10152101244851729
The world domination... it started...
I didn't get it when I first saw this post. Now that I'm checking it on a computer, I'm getting a blank page. Works like a charm on my iPhone. Same Wi-Fi, same DNS.
Same here.
Uhm, who cares?