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jongibbins
Can't help but notice the favicon being a Facebook icon.
kalleboo 

  11:39] ~$ host internet.org
  internet.org has address 173.252.110.27

  11:39] ~$ host 173.252.110.27
  27.110.252.173.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer edge-star-shv-13-frc1.facebook.com.
longwave 

  $ curl -I internet.org
  HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
  Cache-Control: private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
  Expires: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT
  Pragma: no-cache
  X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
  X-Frame-Options: DENY
  X-XSS-Protection: 0
  Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
  X-FB-Debug: Q53Om08biBAOirbDYg7CRjyKwOcOVNfUS84qNIvY7SU=
  Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 11:40:27 GMT
  Connection: keep-alive
  Content-Length: 0
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egil
I guess that for many people, Facebook _is_ the internet.
jrochkind1
oh my god, facebook is the new AOL.
talles
I thought it was some stupidity done by my work's proxy.

What's with that again?

batuhanicoz
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.
jvdh
Strange.

  $ 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)
seiji
Initial creation date survives transfers.
jvdh
I know, but the question is then: who had it before?
mxuribe
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?