Fictitious Internet resources are website

Website

A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...

s, Internet Protocol

Internet Protocol

The Internet Protocol is the principal communications protocol used for relaying datagrams across an internetwork using the Internet Protocol Suite...

 (IP) addresses, or other facilities that are purported to be associated with the Internet

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

 and are used in works of fiction or popular culture, such as movies and television shows.

IP addresses

When IP address

IP address

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es are called for in a script, some TV shows, like 24, will use addresses containing components in the quad-dotted notation that are larger than 255, which is not possible since the components are only 8 bits large. The movie Swordfish

Swordfish (film)

Swordfish is a 2001 crime-thriller film, directed by Dominic Sena and starring John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle and Vinnie Jones. The film is an action thriller that was also notable for Halle Berry's first topless scene...

uses an IP address in 293.0.0.0 in a scene, and the comic strip Narbonic

Narbonic

Narbonic is a webcomic written and drawn by Shaenon K. Garrity. The storylines center on the misadventures of the staff of Narbonic Labs, which is the domain of mad scientist Helen Narbon. The strip started on July 31, 2000 and finished on December 31, 2006. On January 1, 2007, Garrity launched the...

referenced the fictitious IP address 132.513.151.319. However, in Antitrust

Antitrust (film)

Antitrust is a 2001 thriller film written by Howard Franklin and directed by Peter Howitt....

, several addresses in the 10.0.0.0/8 range are shown; these are valid RFC 1918 private network

Private network

In the Internet addressing architecture, a private network is a network that uses private IP address space, following the standards set by RFC 1918 and RFC 4193. These addresses are commonly used for home, office, and enterprise local area networks , when globally routable addresses are not...

 addresses, but their use is not possible on the public Internet. The CSI

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...

series uses addresses in the 5.0.0.0/8 block, which until November 2010 was reserved by IANA

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority is the entity that oversees global IP address allocation, autonomous system number allocation, root zone management in the Domain Name System , media types, and other Internet Protocol-related symbols and numbers...

, and since December 2010 has been assigned to RIPE

RIPE

Réseaux IP Européens is a forum open to all parties with an interest in the technical development of the Internet. The RIPE community’s objective is to ensure that the administrative and technical coordination necessary to maintain and develop the Internet continues...

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Two RFCs (Request For Comments) describe the use of Address Blocks Reserved for Documentation for IPv4 and
IPv6.

Three IPv4 blocks are provided for use in documentation:

• 192.0.2.0/24 (TEST-NET-1)
• 198.51.100.0/24 (TEST-NET-2)
• 203.0.113.0/24 (TEST-NET-3)

The IPv6 address prefix 2001:DB8::/32 as a reserved prefix for use in documentation.