Wikipedia may be down in protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act, but that hasn’t stopped people on Twitter from sharing their worldly knowledge.
(Or from finding a workaround: Just press the escape key right before the splash page loads.)
Over the last eight hours, tweeters have been using #FactsWithoutWikipedia to post some jokes inspired by the online encyclopedia. So far more than 35,000 people have weighed in using the worldwide trending hashtag.
In Wikipedia’s absence, Microsoft Encarta, a digital encyclopedia popular in the 1990s, has made a comeback—at least on Twitter. A parody account, @encarta95, has been poking fun at the Wikipedia blackout over that same time period.
“Have you been able to find all the information you’ve needed during the blackout??” @encarta95 tweeted. “Encarta will never black you out! :-)”
Here are some other tweets that caught the Daily Dot’s attention.
Illustration by Fernando Alfonso III