Encyclopedia Dramatica

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About:

Encyclopedia Dramatica (or ED, for short) was an internet-culture based wiki created in late 2004 dedicated to documenting and categorizing internet memes and other cultural phenomenon. It was famous for having NSFW content that was largely uncensored. It has turned into a “safe for work” Semantic Mediawiki OhInternet.

Most of the articles were salvaged from the website and are available for download ^[6], and a new wiki EncyclopediaDramatica.ch^[7] has been set up containing most of the old articles.

Origin:

Girlvinyl created LJ Drama to document controversies and flame wars occurring in the Livejournal community. Eventually LJ Drama expanded into ED covering the internet as a whole.

Relating to Internet Censorship:

ED brought internet censorship to the forefront of internet discussion when the page for “Aborigines” was removed from the Google search engine, prompting heavy criticism from supporters of Net Neutrality.

Oh Internet

On April 10th, 2011, ED was taken down and given a front page with a cat saying “hang in there!” with a field to enter your email address for updates. It linked to the OhInternet blog ^[1] that had several interviews and posts on various Internet culture related topics.

The ED_Official Twitter account ^[2] tweeted the following on April 13th, 2011, “Update on downtime. Move and new installs done by Friday morning. Hang in there. Check the blog ^[1] & follow @O_Internet.”

On April 14th, 2011, ED began redirecting to the OhInternet main page ^[3], and described itself as a Semantic Mediawiki ^[4] that would cover everything about the Internet:

OhInternet covers anything related to internet culture from people to memes to websites and more. Our aim is to be a complete guide to the internet’s past, present and future and we want you to participate.