Unless you live under a rock… and that rock happens to not have internet access; then you’ve probably heard a thing or two about the SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) Blackout Protest today.  The articles, blog posts, tweets and Facebook chatter is coming fast and furious.  Not to mention that over 7,000 websites, big and small, have united through various forms to protest this legislation that would allow the government an unprecedented ability to censor content across the web without due process. Some big wigs that have joined the fight include Google, Wikipedia, Reddit, Craigslist, and WordPress, but the list goes on.

Since there is more than enough coverage on this hot topic already, I’m going to use this post to take a snapshot in time of January 18, 2012; “The day the internet died….” (well at least for a day anyways).  Someday in the future we’ll look back and say, or sing maybe:

“A long long time ago… I can still remember how”

“The Internet used to make me smile”

“And I knew if Mozilla had a chance”

“That Craigslist and WordPress would take a stance.”

“And maybe Namecheap would be happy for awhile.”

“But SOPA and PIPA made me shiver, until TheOatmeal made me giggle.”

“With every tweet HuffingtonPost delivered.”

“Bad news on the doorstep, Destructoid took one more step.”

“I can’t remember if I cried, when I read about how Imgur tried.”

“But “End Piracy, Not Liberty” touched me deep inside.”

“The day, the Internet died.”

“So…. bye, bye Wiki-pe-dia”

“Drove my mouse to Reddit, but Reddit was dry.”

“Them Google boys, were fighting the fight.”

“Singin’ this’ll be the day that Wired dies.”

“This’ll be the day that SOPA and PIPA die.”

Ok, totally cheesy, but I figured that this day could only be captured through song.  By the way, I’m pretty sure this post would be in violation of SOPA (censorship TBD).