Ask HN: Anyone know where Mark Pilgrim went?

#1

Post by rileywatkins » Wed, Oct 05, 2011, 1:56 AM UTC

I went back to diveintohtml5.org to find something today, and it's gone. Then I checked diveintomark.org, diveintopython3.org, twitter.com/diveintomark...

Is Mark Pilgrim pulling a disappearing act?

Re: Ask HN: Anyone know where Mark Pilgrim went?

#2

Post by dangoor » Wed, Oct 05, 2011, 2:12 AM UTC

Good question

http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2011/10/04/searching-for-m...

Re: Ask HN: Anyone know where Mark Pilgrim went?

#3

Post by kyleslattery » Wed, Oct 05, 2011, 2:21 AM UTC

http://diveintohtml5.com/ seems to still be working

Re: Ask HN: Anyone know where Mark Pilgrim went?

#4

Post by rdhyee » Wed, Oct 05, 2011, 2:21 AM UTC

I'd definitely like to know what happened to Mark Pilgrim and hope he is well. It's still reassuring to know that his websites are still archived by the Internet Archive. (e.g., http://web.archive.org/web/20110726001953/http://diveintohtm...)

Re: Ask HN: Anyone know where Mark Pilgrim went?

#5

Post by macrael » Wed, Oct 05, 2011, 2:24 AM UTC

kyleslattery wrote: post #3

http://diveintohtml5.com/ seems to still be working

I'm not sure the .com is canonical. I don't speak Chineese so I don't really know what is going on with that site. the .org variant and his other pages are all returning 410 Gone.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone know where Mark Pilgrim went?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 05, 2011, 2:25 AM UTC

kyleslattery wrote: post #3

http://diveintohtml5.com/ seems to still be working

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Re: Ask HN: Anyone know where Mark Pilgrim went?

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Post by loire280 » Wed, Oct 05, 2011, 2:26 AM UTC

kyleslattery wrote: post #3

http://diveintohtml5.com/ seems to still be working

The domain for that site is owned by a Chinese university, and the IP address of the server it's hosted on looks like a shared server (there's over 200 sites hosted on that IP). I doubt Mark has anything to do with hosting that site.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone know where Mark Pilgrim went?

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Post by martey » Wed, Oct 05, 2011, 2:26 AM UTC

kyleslattery wrote: post #3

http://diveintohtml5.com/ seems to still be working

Mark Pilgrim's website is diveintohtml5.org. If you compare WHOIS information, it is clear that diveintohtml5.com is owned by Xiaokang Liu, not Mark Pilgrim.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone know where Mark Pilgrim went?

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Post by rileywatkins » Wed, Oct 05, 2011, 2:26 AM UTC

kyleslattery wrote: post #3

http://diveintohtml5.com/ seems to still be working

I noticed this earlier, but it seems he doesn't actually run the http://diveintohtml5.com, according to a whois search. As macrael pointed out, the rest of the .org variants are gone.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone know where Mark Pilgrim went?

#10

Post by chr15 » Wed, Oct 05, 2011, 2:28 AM UTC

Looks like one of his last tweets:

Hey everybody! Adobe has acquired another batch of awesome products that they will slowly ruin through incompetence and mismanagement!

From http://topsy.com/twitter.com/diveintomark/status/12091889959...