The Republic of NULL Island

[dang]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11600396

[Osiris]

It sounded really interesting until I found out that it doesn't really exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island

[labster]

I'm still trying to figure out the heraldry of their flag. Is orange being used as a metal and gray as a fur? Either way, I'm not liking the design. Because of the similar brightness in colors, if you tried to look at that flag from far away, it might not look like it even exists.

[dsr_]

"Africans are not seafaring people."

Citations very much needed, because it looks like this is just plain wrong.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/science/anthro/2001-01-0...

http://indian-ocean.africa.si.edu/

[_nalply]

The image is that of Mayor Island, an New Zealand island volcano.

http://www.gns.cri.nz/Home/Learning/Science-Topics/Volcanoes...

[danso]

Is this really the homepage of the real Null Island? Why isn't it on the .null TLD? http://wiki.opennicproject.org/dotNullTLD

[JoshTriplett]

Probably because people want to actually reach it, so they used a TLD that people already have access to without additional configuration.

Alternative DNS roots seem amusing, but not even slightly practical.

[jimhefferon]

Zero Zero Island: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Bleep

[jheriko]

do we realise that so many people will read this and not realise its not real?

misinformation can be amusing, but its also harmful :/

[labster]

Thankfully there are sites like php.net[1] that tell the truth: "null doesn't exist."

[1]: http://php.net/manual-lookup.php?pattern=null

[keithnz]

well, if people don't check for nulls they are just asking for trouble

[ludamad]

I mean, you can always Google it, but that's personally what I read these comments for.