The new 555

You should have noticed that the area code 555 is used a lot in films. Hopefully you also know this area code does not exist. It’s there just to be plausible but not actually require a real phone number.

Well the film Silent Hill may have a funky alternative for the internet. When people browse the web in films you can often see file:// at the beginning of the address bar, a sign they’re loading files from a hard drive. The ones with a little more thought use a real domain that really exists that can also be used for marketing.

Well, Silent Hill went somewhere in between. In the film a character is seen browsing a website that ends with .web. It obviously doesn’t exist but it is plausible enough to not be annoying.