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Back in the day (90:ies) a colleague at the ISP I was working at (small time dial up business) told me that the one site on the Internet you could count on always being up was playboy.com. Therefore, it was our standard "check if Internet is working" site. In the event that it was a DNS issue, it was also best to memorize its IP.

For some reason, knowing the IP number of playboy.com by heart was not a skill I bragged about a lot :P

These days it's 1.1. Easier both to remember and type than anything else.