Wordplay in the domain to.it
The to.it zone, intended for websites of the city and province of Turin, has sometimes been used to form English expressions, exploiting the suffix ".to.it" as the words "to it".
The website blog.to.it presented itself with the slogan «Blog to it — The social blog».1
In 2005 access.to.it promoted itself with the slogan «Access amazing things through your mobile!», an English-language service with no connection to Turin.2
The name xerca.vene.to.it instead forms the word «Veneto» with the letters of the Turin zone, and was used for a search engine dedicated to that region.3
used.to.it, a play on words on «used to it», later migrated to the blog psychowood.wordpress.com.4
convert.to.it, from «convert to it», today functions as a link shortener pointing to p2r3.com/convert.5
Other wordplay recorded in the zone
In the to.it zone other domains have been identified that form English expressions: listen.to.it, add.to.it, blog.to.it, access.to.it, here.to.it, movement.to.it, wildflowers.to.it and motelconnection.to.it. The website blog.to.it had the literal title «Blog to it — The social blog».1
The most unusual case is xerca.vene.to.it: the word «Veneto» is formed from the Turin zone, and on this domain a search engine dedicated to that other Italian region was built.3
The domain used.to.it («used to it») has meanwhile moved to psychowood.wordpress.com, while convert.to.it («convert to it») today functions as a link shortener for p2r3.com/convert. Out of 399 names in the zone reviewed, six turn out to be genuine plays on words, with two more identified among those that moved elsewhere.4
Other examples: blog.to.it, access.to.it, here.to.it
The domain blog.to.it hosted from 2008 «Blog to it», an English-language social blog directory («The social blog directory») launched in alpha version on 1 November 2008, with no connection to Turin: the wordplay exploited the «blog to it» reading of the address.1
On the same principle, access.to.it hosted between 2005 and 2009 a British paid SMS service, «access.to.it - Access amazing things through your mobile!», which replied to messages sent to the number 60300 with translations, anagrams, trivia and other content.2
The domain here.to.it instead hosted in 2011-2012 «HERE», the page of a project titled «Love is Green» curated by magmaprogetti.3
Three more examples: blog.to.it, access.to.it, here.to.it
The domain blog.to.it — readable as «blog to it» — hosted from November 2008 «Blog to it», an English-language social blog directory organized by categories such as technology, business, science and entertainment, which let users vote on and comment on posts.1 The domain access.to.it — readable as «access to it» — offered from April 2005 an SMS query service reachable at the number 60300, with sections for music, word games, geolocation, translation and quizzes.2 The domain here.to.it — readable as «here to it» — hosted in 2011 the page of «Love is green», a project with a program, press release and contacts signed by the studio Magma Progetti.3
Blog to it, Access to it and Here to it: more wordplay in English
The domain blog.to.it hosted from 2008 "Blog to it", an English-language social blog directory launched in alpha version on 1 November of that year.1 The domain access.to.it instead belonged to "Access to it", a British service active from 2005 that replied via SMS to a short number with translations, anagrams, images and other trivia, with no connection to Turin.2 The domain here.to.it, in 2011, was home to the art project "Here — Love is Green" of the company magmaprogetti.3
blog.to.it, access.to.it and here.to.it: more examples of the wordplay
The domain blog.to.it hosted «Blog to it», an English-language blog directory, with no connection to Turin, active at least from November 2008 to September 2009, with articles organized by topics such as technology, economics, science and the environment.
The domain access.to.it was used for «access.to.it — Access amazing things through your mobile!», a mobile-phone service with sections for music, word games, geolocation, translation and quizzes, active at least from 2005 to 2009. The domain here.to.it, with only the name «HERE», was finally used in 2011-2012 for the project «Love is Green» by the collective magmaprogetti.
More wordplay: blog.to.it, access.to.it, here.to.it
The domain blog.to.it hosted, between 2008 and 2009, «Blog to it», an English-language social blog directory launched in alpha version on 1 November 2008.1 The domain access.to.it was used from 2005 to 2009 by a British paid SMS service, «access.to.it - Access amazing things through your mobile!», which offered via text messages translations, trivia, anagrams and other content.2 The domain here.to.it instead hosted, between 2011 and 2012, the single-page website of the project «HERE - Love is green», created by magmaprogetti.3
More wordplay: blog.to.it, access.to.it and here.to.it
The domain blog.to.it, in the first copy traced by the Web Archive from 6 November 2008, hosts «Blog to it», an English-language social blog directory with no connection to Turin;1 the last live copy traced, from 7 September 2009, still shows it active with the same service.2 The domain access.to.it, in the first copy from 3 April 2005, hosts a British paid SMS service («Access amazing things through your mobile!», number 60300);3 the last live copy traced, from 2 March 2009, shows it unchanged.4 The domain here.to.it, in the first copy from 16 July 2011, hosts the page of the event «HERE – Love is Green» by the collective magmaprogetti;5 the last live copy traced, from 18 April 2012, is identical.6
Three more domains in the to.it zone
blog.to.it hosted, from 6 November 2008 to 7 September 2009, the website of "Blog to it", a social blog directory that let users automatically import their own posts. access.to.it is documented from 3 April 2005 to 2 March 2009 with just the domain name as content. here.to.it, registered under the title "HERE", appears in the archive from 16 July 2011 to 18 April 2012.
The domain here.to.it: the «Love is Green» campaign (2011)
The domain here.to.it, a play on words on «here to it», is used in 2011 by Magmaprogetti for a campaign titled «Love is Green», with only the sections Programme, Press Release, Thanks to and Contacts; the snapshots traced, from 16 July 2011 to 18 April 2012, always show the same static page, with the copyright «by magmaprogetti - 2011».12
Three more plays on words: blog.to.it, access.to.it, here.to.it
The domain blog.to.it hosted "Blog to it", an English-language social blog directory launched in its alpha version on 1 November 2008, which let users share their own blog and discover new ones by categories such as technology, business, science, gaming and sport.1 The domain access.to.it instead belonged to the British service "access.to.it – Access amazing things through your mobile!", active at least between 2005 and 2009, which replied via SMS to the number 60300 with translations, anagrams, quizzes, one's own "hobbit name" or the nearest shop.2 The domain here.to.it, active between 2011 and 2012, hosted the minimal website of the project "HERE" by the Turin-based magmaprogetti, with the slogan "Love is green".3
The domains blog.to.it, access.to.it and here.to.it in the web archive (2005-2012)
The domain access.to.it is online from 2005 to 2009 with «access.to.it», a British paid SMS service at the number 60300 for translations, riddles, crosswords and trivia.
More wordplay: blog.to.it, access.to.it, here.to.it
The domain blog.to.it hosts between 2008 and 2009 «Blog to it», an English-language blog directory organized by topics such as technology, the environment and lifestyle. Access.to.it, active from 2005 to 2009, instead offers games and puzzles from a mobile phone with the title «access.to.it — Access amazing things through your mobile». Here.to.it, in 2011, promotes with the tagline «HERE» the campaign «Love is Green», likewise exploiting the wordplay with the .to.it domain.
The domain blog.to.it in the web archive
The domain blog.to.it, in the web archive from 6 November 2008, hosts «Blog to it», a Web 2.0-style social blog directory launched in Alpha version on 1 November 2008 and still active in September 2009.
The domain access.to.it in the web archive
The domain access.to.it, in the web archive from 3 April 2005, hosts a British value-added SMS service («Access amazing things through your mobile!»): sending a message with the word «access» to the number 60300 would generate automatic replies about music, translations, anagrams and geolocation; the service remains active at least until March 2009.
The domain here.to.it in the web archive
The domain here.to.it, in the web archive from 16 July 2011, hosts the page of the initiative «Here - Love is green», curated by magmaprogetti, which remained online at least until April 2012.
blog.to.it, access.to.it and here.to.it: more wordplay in the domain to.it (2005-2012)
The domain blog.to.it hosted from November 2008 «Blog to it», an English-language social blog directory that exploited the wordplay «blog to it»; the site was still active in September 2009. The domain access.to.it, online at least from 3 April 2005, offered «access.to.it - Access amazing things through your mobile!», a British paid SMS service for word games, translations and trivia, still active in March 2009.
More wordplay in the domain to.it: access.to.it and here.to.it
The domain access.to.it was used between 2005 and 2009 by a British paid SMS service («Access amazing things through your mobile!»), which exploited the wordplay «access [...] to it» to offer, via the number 60300, anagrams, song lyrics, translations and other curious content, with no connection to Turin. The domain here.to.it was instead registered in 2011 by the Milan-based studio Magmaprogetti for the page of the initiative «Love is Green», again as a play on words («here [...] to it») rather than as an address tied to the city.
Three names at play: blog.to.it, access.to.it and here.to.it (2005-2012)
Exploiting the suffix «.to.it» as though it were the English «to it», three websites with no connection to Turin used this wordplay in their address: blog.to.it, a blog directory active between 2008 and 2009; access.to.it, a portal of mobile-phone services with sections for music, word games, geolocation and translation, online from 2005 to 2009; here.to.it, the website of the art project «Love is Green» by the studio Magma Progetti, active in 2011-2012.
The domain blog.to.it: «Blog to it», an English-language blog directory (2008-2009)
The domain blog.to.it hosted «Blog to it», an English-language social blog directory, with sections dedicated to technology, business, science, video games and entertainment, where users could register to submit their own blogs. The site, which appeared online in November 2008, still appeared active in September 2009.
The domain access.to.it: a British paid SMS service (2005-2009)
The domain access.to.it hosted «access.to.it», a British paid text-messaging service active from 2005: sending a keyword to the number 60300 would generate in reply translations, anagrams, riddles, images and other trivia, at a price of 25 pence per message.
The domain here.to.it: the project «Love is Green» (2011-2012)
The domain here.to.it hosted, between 2011 and 2012, the website of the project «Love is Green» curated by the agency magmaprogetti, with sections on programme, press release and contacts; in this case too the to.it domain was chosen for the wordplay «here to it», with no connection to Turin.
More wordplay: blog.to.it, access.to.it and here.to.it
The domain access.to.it hosted access.to.it, a portal of mobile-phone services with sections Music, Word Games, Geolocation, Translation and Trivia, documented between 3 April 2005 and 2 March 2009. The domain here.to.it hosted «HERE», the website of the project «Love is Green» by the company Magmaprogetti, documented between 16 July 2011 and 18 April 2012.
Three addresses with an English reading: blog.to.it, access.to.it, here.to.it (2005-2012)
The copy from 6 November 2008 already records the launch of the Alpha version, announced within the page on 1 November of that year; the last copy with content, from 7 September 2009, still shows the list of posts and categories on the home page.
The domain access.to.it offered, at least from 3 April 2005, paid SMS services for the British market («Access amazing things through your mobile!»): anagrams, translations, images and other information via a short number (60300). The service still appears active, with the same content layout, in the copy from 2 March 2009.
The domain here.to.it, from 16 July 2011 to 18 April 2012, presented the project «HERE» curated by the studio magmaprogetti, with only the entries «Love is green», «Programma», «Comunicato stampa», «Grazie a» and «Contatti» and a copyright dated 2011.
Blog.to.it, access.to.it and here.to.it: more misreadings of the domain
The domain blog.to.it hosted between 2008 and 2009 «Blog to it», an English-language social blog directory dedicated to technology, business and entertainment, with no connection to Turin.
Access.to.it, by contrast, was, between 2005 and 2009, the website of a British paid SMS service («Access amazing things through your mobile»), which allowed users to receive by text translations, anagrams and other trivia through the number 60300.
Here.to.it finally belonged, between 2011 and 2012, to the Italian event «Here», organized by Magmaprogetti with the slogan «Love is green».
Other examples: access.to.it, blog.to.it and here.to.it
The domain access.to.it hosted from 2005 the British service «Access amazing things through your mobile», which let users send to the number 60300 requests such as «access singer of yellow» or «access pizza» to receive information via SMS: the wordplay «access to it» exploited the English reading of the address.
On the domain blog.to.it «Blog to it» debuted on 1 November 2008, a Web 2.0-style blog directory that invited users to register and share their own blogs. On the domain here.to.it, instead, the website of the event «Here» by the agency magmaprogetti appeared in 2011, titled «Love is green».
The domains blog.to.it, access.to.it and here.to.it, three plays on words with «to» (2005-2012)
The domain blog.to.it, in the web archive snapshots from 6 November 2008 and 7 September 2009, hosts «Blog to it», a social blog directory that lets users automatically import their own posts and lets readers vote on and comment on them by category. The domain access.to.it, in the snapshots from 3 April 2005 and 2 March 2009, offers an SMS information service, «Access amazing things through your mobile!», with music quizzes, anagrams, geolocation and trivia, activated by sending a message to the number 60300. The domain here.to.it, in the snapshots from 16 July 2011 and 18 April 2012, hosts the website of the project «Here - Love is Green», curated by Magmaprogetti.
access.to.it and here.to.it, two more plays on words in the domain to.it
The domain access.to.it is online, under the same name «access.to.it», in the web archive snapshot from 3 April 2005 and again in that from 2 March 2009. The domain here.to.it, titled simply «HERE», is online in the snapshot from 16 July 2011 and again in that from 18 April 2012. The domain blog.to.it hosts, in the snapshot from 6 November 2008, the blog directory «Blog to it - The social blog directory», still online, under the title «All - Today's top posts», in the snapshot from 7 September 2009.
blog.to.it, access.to.it and here.to.it in the archive's snapshots
The domain blog.to.it, in the snapshots from 6 November 2008 to 7 September 2009, hosts «Blog to it», described on its own site as «the social blog directory», a service that let users automatically import their own posts from other blogs. The domain access.to.it is active, under the identically named title, in the snapshots from 3 April 2005 to 2 March 2009. The domain here.to.it is active, under the title «HERE», in the snapshots from 16 July 2011 to 18 April 2012.
Three new plays on words: blog.to.it, access.to.it, here.to.it
access.to.it, active from 2005 to 2009, offers «Access amazing things through your mobile!»: word games, music, geolocation, translations and even a section dedicated to hobbit names, designed for the mobile phone.
here.to.it, in 2011, hosts the website of the event «Love is Green», created by the studio magmaprogetti.
Blog, access, here: three .to.it domains as wordplay
Some domains in the .to.it zone play on the double meaning between the abbreviation for the province of Turin and the English preposition «to»: blog.to.it, active between 2008 and 2009, hosted an English-language blog directory («Blog to it»); access.to.it, online between 2005 and 2009, a site of games and quizzes («Access amazing things through your mobile!»); here.to.it, active in 2011-2012, the website of the event «Love is green» by the collective magmaprogetti.
More uses of the wordplay: blog.to.it, access.to.it and here.to.it
The domain blog.to.it hosts, in the snapshot from 6 November 2008, «Blog to it», an international blog directory organized by thematic categories such as technology, business and entertainment, with no connection to the city of Turin. The domain access.to.it has been, since 2005, as the snapshot from 3 April of that year shows, home to a British mobile-content service, «Access amazing things through your mobile», with sections dedicated to music, word games and geolocation. The domain here.to.it instead hosts, in the snapshot from 16 July 2011, the website of the cultural project «HERE – Love is Green», curated by the association Magmaprogetti.
blog.to.it, access.to.it and here.to.it: more wordplay
The domain access.to.it, in the snapshots from 2005 to 2009, presents a mobile-phone games and information service with the motto «Access amazing things through your mobile!», with sections on music, word games, geolocation and translation. The domain here.to.it, in the 2011-2012 snapshots, instead publishes the page of the project «Love is Green» by Magmaprogetti.
access.to.it, here.to.it and blog.to.it
The domain access.to.it plays on the name «access to it»: active from 2005 to 2009, it offers mobile content with sections such as «Music», «Word Games» and «Geolocation», as the snapshot from 7 July 2006 shows. The domain here.to.it («here to it») instead hosts, in 2011, the website of the campaign «Love is Green» by Magmaprogetti, as seen in the snapshot from 16 July of that year. The domain blog.to.it («blog to it») is finally, between 2008 and 2009, a blog directory, «Blog to it - The social blog directory», as the snapshot from 6 November 2008 shows.
blog.to.it, access.to.it and here.to.it: more wordplay domains
The domain access.to.it, active from 2005 to 2009, is the basis of a British paid SMS service, «Access amazing things through your mobile!», which replies to a short number with music, translation, word game, geolocation and quiz services, with rates in British pence.
Access.to.it, Blog.to.it and Here.to.it: three plays on words on the suffix .to.it
The domain access.to.it hosted from 2005 a British SMS-based game service, «Access amazing things through your mobile», with sections dedicated to music, geolocation, translation, anagrams and crosswords, trivia and «hobbit names», active at least until 2009 and with no connection to Turin.
The domain here.to.it, online in 2011, was the single-page site of the initiative «Love is Green» by the agency magmaprogetti, with only links to programme, press release and contacts.
blog.to.it, a London blog directory in 2008-2009
Between November 2008 and September 2009 the domain blog.to.it hosts «Blog to it», an English-language social blog directory launched in alpha version on 1 November 2008, which lets users import their own posts and vote on others' content by category.
access.to.it, an English paid SMS service (2005-2009)
From 2005 to 2009 access.to.it hosts «access.to.it», a British interactive SMS service: sending a message with the word «access» to the number 60300 would generate in reply translations, anagrams, images or one's own «hobbit name», at a cost of about 25 pence per message.
here.to.it, the website of the 2011 event «HERE»
Between July 2011 and April 2012 here.to.it hosts the minimal, single-screen page of the event «HERE — Love is Green», created by magmaprogetti.
Three more plays on words in the domain to.it: blog.to.it, access.to.it, here.to.it
The domain blog.to.it hosted between 2008 and 2009 «Blog to it», an English-language blog directory organized by categories such as technology, business, science and sport, inviting users to register and add their own blog.
The domain access.to.it hosted from 2005 to 2009 «Access to it», a British service that replied via SMS, at the number 60300, to requests about music, translations, word games, trivia and geolocation.
Blog.to, Access.to, Here.to: three more plays on words
access.to.it presented itself as «Access amazing things through your mobile!», a mobile-phone service with anagrams, crosswords, geolocation, translations and quizzes, already online in April 2005. here.to.it was instead used in 2011 for the website of the event «Love is Green», created by the agency Magma Progetti.
access.to.it and here.to.it
The domain here.to.it, live between 2011 and 2012, was instead the page of a single event, «Here - Love is Green», curated by the studio magmaprogetti.
blog.to.it, access.to.it and here.to.it: the English wordplay
The domain blog.to.it hosts, from November 2008 to September 2009, «Blog to it», an English-language social blog directory born as a «Web 2.0» site, whose name plays on the English reading «blog to it». The domain access.to.it, captured from April 2005 to March 2009, hosts a British paid SMS service («access.to.it brings a whole new interactive experience to your mobile phone»), with the same wordplay («access to it»): sending a message to the number 60300 would generate translations, anagrams, images or one's own «hobbit version» of one's name, at a cost of 25 pence per reply.
blog.to.it and access.to.it, two foreign services with no connection to Turin
The domain blog.to.it hosted from 2008 an English-language service, «Blog to it», described as «the social blog directory»: the capture from 6 November 2008 documents its launch in alpha version, while the one from 7 September 2009, the last available, shows it active with a cloud of English-language categories, with no reference to Turin at all. The domain access.to.it was instead the basis of a British paid SMS service: the captures from 3 April 2005 and 7 July 2006 show its offering of automatic replies about music, translations, anagrams and geolocation, activated by sending a message to the British number 60300. In both cases the domain exploits only the suffix «.to.it» as wordplay in English («blog to it», «access to it»), with no relation to the city at all.
The domain blog.to.it
The domain blog.to.it is online from 6 November 2008 as «Blog to it», an English-language social blog directory, with no connection to Turin; the last snapshot kept by the archive is from 7 September 2009.
The domain access.to.it
The domain access.to.it is online from 3 April 2005 as a British mobile text-message service («Access amazing things through your mobile!»), based on the wordplay with the English «access to it»; the last snapshot with the service still active kept by the archive is from 2 March 2009.
The domain here.to.it
The domain here.to.it is online from 16 July 2011 as the website of the project «HERE» by Magmaprogetti; the last snapshot kept by the archive, from 18 April 2012, shows the same site unchanged.
blog.to.it, access.to.it, here.to.it
Among the domains that play on the suffix .to.it are blog.to.it, a blog directory online from 6 November 2008 to 7 September 2009; access.to.it, a mobile-content service («Access amazing things through your mobile!») active from 3 April 2005 to 2 March 2009; and here.to.it, the website of the event «Love is Green» by the agency Magmaprogetti, online from 16 July 2011 to 18 April 2012.
More wordplay in the domain to.it
The domain here.to.it, with the simple title «HERE», was used for the page of the initiative «Love is Green» by the agency Magmaprogetti, photographed between 16 July 2011 and 18 April 2012.789
Three plays on words in the domain to.it: blog, access, here
Blog.to.it («blog to it») announced, in a post dated 1 November 2008 and picked up by the scan from 6 November, its own «Alpha launch»: «Blog to it is the latest Web 2.0 site, it allows users to share their blog and find new blogs» [1].
Three examples: blog.to.it, access.to.it, here.to.it
The domain blog.to.it hosted in November 2008 «Blog to it», an English-language social blog directory launched in alpha version on 1 November 2008, with sections dedicated to technology, business, science, gaming, lifestyle, entertainment and sport; in 2009 the site invited readers to vote on and comment on the most popular posts, organized by category, rating, date and keyword.1,2
Three pseudo-domains «to.it» in the web archive
The domain access.to.it hosted, at least from 3 April 2005, the British paid SMS service «access.to.it», at the number 60300: by sending a text message one could obtain information about music, translations, word games, geolocation or a «hobbit name»; the cost of most replies was 25 pence, rising to 50 pence for geolocation requests.
The addition of ringtones on access.to.it
In the snapshot from 3 April 2005 access.to.it's menu did not yet include a ringtones section.1 In those from 7 July 2006 and 2 March 2009, by contrast, the site appears expanded with a new menu entry dedicated to ringtones («Ringtones»), and states at the bottom that it is built on the «txtx» platform («Powered by txtx»).23
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