The 2012 Wikipedia blackout - subverted

 

On 2012-01-18, Wikipedia looked like this on a modern Firefox browser.  Learn more.

With an obsolete browser like Internet Explorer 6, the page looked like this:

 

Via Twitter, thank you

 

Mark Jensen @marks 20m

Okay, no more Wikipedia-jokes today. Disable JavaScript, go to any article you want, wait for it to go black, OHNOITDI'N'T. You're welcome.

Tim @tim_harrap 1h

@CoCreatr if you put an 'm' after en. You can access Wikipedia! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese #sopa

Poynter @Poynter 52m

Google, Wikipedia, WordPress, Craigslist & others black out their sites today in protest: journ.us/yBgnJr "Internet goes on strike"

TechRadar @techradar 2h

Here's what our @garymarshall thinks of the Wikipedia blackout - nice idea, but it won't work techradar.com/news/internet/…

 

Jake Adelstein @jakeadelstein 4h

The black-out of Wikipedia illustrates the Big Yellow Taxi Principle: "You don't know what you got till it's gone" Sing Joni, sing!

 

Pete Cashmore @mashable 4h

Wikipedia Goes Black in Protest of SOPA - on.mash.to/wKYHEU

zerohedge @zerohedge 8h

Wikipedia has gone black bit.ly/cW8MCg

 

Hildy Gottlieb @HildyGottlieb 9h

@tomwatson Truth appears to be more like "When Wikipedia goes black, it doesn't really..." is.gd/34jSLy

 

Michael Josefowicz @toughLoveforx 17 Jan

Wikipedia will black out English language version Wednesday to protest to protest anti-piracy legislation ilnk.me/d03a rdr @dcarli