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Chinese Website Maintenance Day – for the 20th Anniversary of 8964

Submitted by jason.zhanjia on Thursday, 4 June 2009Comments

As China Web2.0 Review, Danwei, and CNreviews posted, today is defined by netizens as “The Chinese Website Maintenance Day (中国网站维护日)“.

Due to the 2oth anniversary of 1989 Tiananmen Massacre, the administrators of total 358 Chinese domestic websites have put the inaccessibility on their sites for a period of 2-3 days via using the excuse “technical maintenance” since June 3rd, according to a collaborated-made “Chinese Site Maintenance Google Spreadsheet“.

Snapshot of the sheet:

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  • mfarney
    I had no idea about this tradition. Is that list supposed to represent all the sites that were down for the celebration?
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    Mathew Farney - web hosting
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