A Piece of Internet History Lost: IO.com Sold, Services To Shut Down 123
An anonymous reader writes "The former Illuminati Online domain, IO.com, has been sold, and all existing customers will lose all services associated with the domain. A 1990 Secret Service raid on Steve Jackson Games, then owner of the Illuminati Online BBS and later the IO.com domain led to the creation of the EFF and was an important milestone in the fight for online rights. While the domain has been sold in the past, the services offered to customers always remained unchanged. However, this most recent sale, to an unnamed party, will result in all services being dropped on July 1, and people will lose email addresses, web pages, and shell accounts that many have had for 15+ years." Bad news for me — io.com was my first real ISP, and I was hoping to see if I could revive the account.
Re:What? (Score:5, Funny)
Early shutdown (Score:5, Funny)
YOU CAN'T MAKE TIN FOIL HATS OUT OF ALUMINIUM FOIL (Score:5, Funny)
Secret Service raid...Illuminati...led to the creation of the EFF
I knew it! The FOSS movement was a Freemason conspiracy to establish a New World Order through software infiltration. First they took over the server OS market, now they are aiming for the desktop market shares, after that, the entire world!
Re:YOU CAN'T MAKE TIN FOIL HATS OUT OF ALUMINIUM F (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ah well. (Score:4, Funny)
I'm posting Anon so my brothers will not know it was me that let the secret out. You see Steve Jackson stole the domain from us Masons years ago. We were setting it up for secret online meetings and to hold the secret Mason Wiki for Master Mason access to find out what other Worshipful Masters were up to and to see live camera feeds of the holy grail as it toured the world as well as the other lesser artifacts like water from the fountain of youth, and the secret film of Kennedy being kidnapped by our secret mason strike squad and replaced with a life like dummy. etc...
WE now have it back once again! Our power is now complete! Unite my brothers!
I am glad to let the secret out, They would kill me if I posted this under my real account and traced it back to me!