Operation Restoration

On April 15th, 2011, Operation Restoration became quite possibly the only worthwhile thing shat out of the bowels of AnonOps, a (now defunct) script kiddie enabling IRC network. The idea was to restore Encyclopedia Dramatica after the domain encyclopediadramatica.com was redirected to the shitty and horrendously unfunny Know Your Meme rip off, Ohinternet. The project quickly began the night ED.com went down with sister sites encyclopediadramatica.ch and Lurkmoarpedia scraping articles from Google cache, Wayback Machine, etc. Ultimately, ED.ch proved to be more popular due to support from AnonOps, and Lurkmoarpedia was left in the dust.

Like all previous operations lead by Anon, #OpSaveED was a warzone between trolls, script kiddies, and people who were serious about restoring ED and all its glory. Many a script kiddie was determined to LOIC OhInternet out of existence, despite being told not to by everyone with half a brain cell. In order to stop said skiddie rampages, "ddos" and several other related words were blacklisted in #OpSaveED (soon to return to #ed).

	“	<@killhamster> yes <@killhamster> it is mature to try to destroy our website <@killhamster> very much so	„
	—Killhamster - master of irony, Oh you mean like you destroyed our website?

Anonymous Saves the Day

Thanks to some dedicated folks over at #OpSaveED, ED was successful in returning the lulz to those who came here to seek them. Articles were restored (as well as some that Girlvinyl removed out of fear that someone would say something mean about her on the Internet), most images were restored, and old users gradually started coming back. All's well that ends well.

Fortunately, an EDiot screencapped the threads on /b/ when Sherrod first tried to shut down ED in January 2011:

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See also

• Ryan
• Epic Battle
• Encyclopedia Dramatica:Restoration 2020. Same shit, different decade.

Operation Restorationis part of a series on The History of Encyclopedia Dramatica

[Seal ThemOpen the Records] Events: In Chronological Order In the Beginning ◆ Attempted coup of the wiki ◆ RFJason CL Experiment ◆ May 2007 ◆ Dancing sandwich war ◆ ED turns 5 ◆ Creation of the ED Mascot ◆ ED sued by Australian Human Rights Commissions ◆ Australian Media interview ◆ Sheneequa Turns Four ◆ Girlvinyl deletes "Niggers" ◆ DeHippo replaces ED with KYM clone ◆ Operation Restoration ◆ New ED founder v& ◆ We change domains over 9000 times for various, hilarious reasons ◆ EDF2 game on the news ◆ ED turns 10 ◆ The Great ED Civil War of 2018 and Zaiger being kicked out for stealing money ◆ New ED owner gets v& (again) ◆ The Great Ass Napkins Saga ◆ Chicago Footjob During the Great Reign of ED: Includes Timelines 2005 ◆ 2006 ◆ 2007 ◆ 2008 ◆ 2009 ◆ 2010 ◆ 2011 ◆ 2012 ◆ 2013 ◆ 2014 ◆ 2015 ◆ 2016 ◆ 2017 ◆ 2018 ◆ 2019 ◆ 2020 ◆ 2021 ◆ 2022 ◆ 2023 ◆ 2024 Other Notable Years: 1980s ◆ 1990s ◆ 2000s ◆ 2010s ◆ Y2K ◆ Future ◆ 2001 ◆ 2002 ◆ 2003 ◆ 2004 See Also: ED Government ◆ Encyclopedia Dramatica in the News ◆ Disgraced, Missing and Dead Dramaticans ◆ Taking down ED

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