History Main / LoggingOntoTheFourthWall

** Also Travis owns buttercupisaverygoodgirl.com which contains pictures of his dog princess buttercup, and a not that she is a very good dog.

* Shogun's [=URLs=] from ''VisualNovel/ChaosHead'' lead to gruesome anime pictures with Haritsuke no Misa's case victims on them.
* In ''LightNovel/NoGameNoLife'', Tet sends an email to Sora and Shiro with the weblink, "http://www.disboard-the-boardtop-world.info". Entering the site in real life will lead you to Tet presenting some sort of quiz. It's both timed, in Japanese, and can't be auto-translated.[[note]][[DareToBeBadass But those who think their problem solving skills and obsession rival that of the main characters are certainly welcome to try.]][[/note]]
* In ''Manga/InitialD'', the racing team Project D has the domain name of "project.d", despite ".d" not being a valid top-level domain.
* Ichigo was shown posting an entry on the group's blog at one point in ''Manga/SeiyusLife''. The web address is part of the official site for the anime.
* In chapter 101 of ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'', Kaguya shows a QR code on her phone so she and Shirogame can exchange LINE [=ID=]s. Scanning it will pull up a link for purchasing the series' official LINE stickers.

* In the second episode of ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'', Victoria posted a link to Kate's video on the mirror. You can actually visit the website that links to Kate's video. http://katesvid.com/ is a real link that leads to a blog with a single post and video that has been "removed" by ''Website/YouTube'',[[spoiler:citing the fact that Victoria removed the video following Kate's suicide attempt.]] They are now redirecting you to ''Creator/SquareEnix''. Use ''Website/InternetArchive''

* One of Music/{{Caparezza}}'s songs ended with a spoken part mentioning the site "Staperarrivarelafinedelmondo.com" ("The End of the World is Near.com"). Now it's defunct, it used to redirect to a blog page mantained by a ConspiracyTheorist about natural disasters and the conspiracies that cause them in order to destroy the world. The stupidity of conspiracy theories is the theme of another song from that album. Sadly, a couple weeks after the album came out, [[HarsherInHindsight the 2011 Fukushima incident happened]], indirectly "proving the point" of the fake blogger.

** Also Travis owns buttercupisaverygoodgirl.com which contains pictures of his dog princess butttercup, and a not that she is a very good dog.

* ''VideoGame/EnterTheMatrix'' had websites revealed through cutscenes and the "hacking" minigame, that when visited in real life, gave you clues to unlock additional secret, usually extremely helpful things in levels, ranging from heavier weaponry to make boss fights easier (like a heavy machine gun to take down a SWAT heli) to unlocking an easier/stealthier/etc route through a level. The websites were all done up as if they were in-universe sites, and you actually had to do a bit of work to find the clues you could use in game.

** The Simpsons also went to an Internet cafe, which had the sign "[=http://wel.com=]" (which goes to a Korean website for something called Froebel).

* Ichigo was shown posting an entry on the group's blog at one point in ''Manga/SoreGaSeiyuu''. The web address is part of the official site for the anime.

* Every single Twitter account [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXfLrt90CHM in a series of commercials]] for ''Film/MuppetsMostWanted'' is real, and [[http://badguytalent.com/ the website]] that [=@RICHPLAYA33=] [[https://twitter.com/RICHPLAYA33/status/421756432367644672 tweeted about]] was real (serving as a hub for a contest where the winner would receive a trip to the movie's premiere in Los Angeles) until it was changed into a redirect to the ''Muppets Most Wanted'' page on Disney's website at some point in 2018, years after the movie's home release.

* Every single Twitter account [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXfLrt90CHM in this commercial]] for ''Film/MuppetsMostWanted'' is real, and [[http://badguytalent.com/ the website]] that [=@RICHPLAYA33=] [[https://twitter.com/RICHPLAYA33/status/421756432367644672 tweeted about]] was real until it was changed into a redirect to the ''Muppets Most Wanted'' page on Disney's website at some point in 2018, years after the movie's home release.

* Typing in "[=SeeStanBlog.com=]" into your web browser will merely redirect you to the Creator/DisneyChannel webpage for ''Series/DogWithABlog'', but unlike other shows' webpages the site is actually modeled closely after Stan's blog as seen on the show, including featuring [[http://disneychannel.disney.com/fatherhood?cds the blog entries he writes in the show]] ([[http://disneychannel.disney.com/another-dog-show?cds and many that aren't seen on the show]]).

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In the first episode of the new series, Rose uses a search engine called Search-Wise to find information about the Doctor; both Search-Wise.net and the conspiracy web site she finds exist in real life, the former maintained by an independent IT company as a service for film and television program makers and the latter a creation of the BBC's web team. The series went on to accumulate a large number of tie-in web sites.

* In the second episode of ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'', Victoria posted a link to Kate's video on the mirror. You can actually visit the website that links to Kate's video. http://katesvid.com/ is a real link that leads to a blog with a single post and video that has been "removed" by ''Website/YouTube'',[[spoiler:citing the fact that Victoria removed the video following Kate's suicide attempt.]]

See also FiveFiveFive (the prefix for fictional phone numbers) which exists for similar reasons.

** In the second 2019 Democratic Debates, while everyone told the audience to go to their campaign's website, Joe Biden accidentally told people to "go to Joe 30330", which was quickly snatched up by a satirical presidential campaign.

* One Energizer bunny commercial had inmyunderwear.com, devoted to online sale of underwear so that you could be "surfing in your underwear". It used to actually sell underwear, but is now a porn tube site.

* The zombie survival game ''VideoGame/StateOfDecay'' features a fictional dinosaur-themed coffee chain called T-Rexpresso. Their web site www.trexpresso.com (now defunct) looked a lot like a real coffee shop web site and apologised for "staffing issues" due to the zombie outbreak, but also had a store where real life T-rexpresso merchandise such as coffee mugs could be bought.

** '''This system has been compromised'''\\

* Verify that the facility hosting the Web site has not been damaged or destroyed by opposing forces.
*** There is also a technical support link on the error pages, which leads to another site, [[http://www.spytechindustries.com/support.asp Spytech Industries]] which is also still active.

* ''VideoGame/TheCave'' has one for the Third Trial of Zenness. [[http://www.monkpuzzle.com/ This is the only page.]] Lampshaded later by The Cave.

** In the episode "Home Away from Homer," Ned rents a room to a couple of seemingly innocent female college students, who then use it for their naughty webcam site, www.sexyslumberparty.com. When the episode first aired, the URL linked to an official show site featuring pictures of the two girls.

* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' had an episode with Stella finding out her boyfriend had posted a sex tape on the site www.aresanob.com ('Bonasera', her last name, backwards). The site had a message saying "Click here to see what Stella saw", then showed the sex tape clip and an extended promo for the next ep, "All Access" (now it just takes you to the CBS page).
** 'Hung Out To Dry', the first Shane Casey episode, had http://www.kodecan.com, which was based off the real life Edoc Laundry clothing line and website,whose products appeared in the episode. It's dead now.

[[folder:Film]]
* ''Film/TheRing'': For a long time, http://www.moeskoislandlighthouse.com/ existed. It was moved to http://www.sweb.cz/moesko/ by fans.
* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'': ladiesman217 [[http://www.ebay.com/usr/ladiesman217 is an actual registered e-Bay user]], with objects occasionally for sale (but unfortunately unrelated to the movie).
* A companion piece that ran as a sort of infomercial on the [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci Fi Channel]], called "The Curse of the Blair Witch," featured the website http://www.blairwitch.com/ for ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'' that was in theaters at the same time, which was part of the very successful viral marketing campaign. The website, at the time, spoke of events in a very ATrueStoryInMyUniverse sort of way, and had a lot of people believing that, "In October 1994, three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later, their footage was found."
* The Creator/KevinSmith film ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'' features a website called Movie Poop Shoot. Not only was a real website created as a tie-in (where Smith blogged about his productions), for a while it actually operated as a legitimate movie review site (reviews from the site are even indexed by Rotten Tomatoes).
* In ''Film/AboutABoy'' Will talks about his day in regards of "units of time". While talking about his "web-based research" (two units) Will visits supermodelswithseethroughtops.com, yet it's never shown what's on the site. See for yourself...
* ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' has a post-credits scene with http://thedailybugle.net/, an active website.

[[folder:Literature]]
* A first-person account of the dangers of predators in online chats was written by one Katie Tarbox and published by Penguin under the title ''[=Katie.com=]''. Only one problem: At the time of publication, the domain [=katie.com=] belonged to a completely different person who was unaffiliated with the book, and who had had the domain well before Tarbox even started writing. Someone at Penguin was ''really'' not thinking things through. Oh, and to make things even more facepalm-worthy, the original title of the book was ''[=Girl.com=]'', but Penguin was fine with scrapping ''that'' title when it found out that a porn site was at that URL at the time.
** Ironically enough, the domain name was sold, and now ''[=Katie.com=]'' is a porn site as well.
* A ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' novel had a fight with a giant hamster, with a warning that urged the reader to visit whenhamstersattack.com. [[http://www.whenhamstersattack.com/index.php It, of course, exists]].
* In Literature/TheNightCircus, when [[spoiler:Bailey becomes the modern proprietor of the circus]], his email address is listed as ''[=bailey@nightcircus.com=]''. Guess what author Erin Morgenstern's email domain name is?
* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' had www.earthisours.com (defunct, though some of it exists on the Wayback Machine) and "The Yeerks Are Here" websites, (the second based on a website the kids found in 'The Warning') though the real sites were fan-made, not official.
* The website www.t-grad.com is described in a series ''The Secret City'' by Vadim Panov. In the fictional world, the website was used by secret ancient magic races of Moscow. The input demanded finger pressing to the screen for identification of the user. The real website doesn't demand it... or so it seems.
* The comedic YA sci-fi series ''Literature/{{Outernet}}'' revolved around an intergalactic computer network (the titular "Outernet") used by [[LaResistance a group of benevolent alien freedom fighters]] to exchange information and maintain communication. The web address "[=Go2Outer.net=]", which the main characters used to access the Outernet, was once a real website, which linked to an ARG role-playing game where readers could join up with the Friends Intelligence Bureau and undertake missions relating to the plot of the books.

* Dane Cook was on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' and his opening monologue concerned Website/YouTube, and how you can type any random keystrokes in and get at least one hit, including "A:F6". The next day, sure enough, there were a bunch of new videos either named or tagged A colon F6.

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' had [=PennyBlossoms.com=] in the episode where the geeks opened an online store. Yep, the site exists, and it's owned by the production company.

* Friendface.co.uk from ''Series/TheITCrowd'' exists, but displays a page showing that Friendface has been "blocked by Reynholm Industries' network": [[http://friendface.co.uk/]]

* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' does this constantly. Wiki/TheOtherWiki has a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_I_Met_Your_Mother long list]] compiled of them.
** The only exception so far is a rate-your-teacher website from "Subway Wars", which doesn't exist. [[ProductPlacement They only show Ted searching and finding the site through Bing.]]
*** The Rate-my-teacher website [[http://www.ratemyteachers.com/ted-mosby/2365071-t exists]] and Ted is consistently rated as "Awesome" although his lecture slides are noted to feature drunk chicks on a toilet. Bonus points, he is said to teach at Hogwarts Middle School -- Architecture section.

* In 2002, ''Series/SesameStreet'' episode [[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_3997 3997]] featured Oscar the Grouch seeing a commercial for the grouch amusement park Six Crabs Yucky World. The commercial showed the URL [=http://yuckyworld.org/=], which Oscar subsequently visited on the show. Sesame Workshop had intended to register the site before the episode aired but the paperwork had fallen through the cracks and not been filed by air time, leading a lucky viewer to help them out -- there's actually an interesting story involving this one.[[note]]An adult viewer saw this episode when it premiered, and, amused by the .org domain, visited the Yucky World site, only to discover that the producers had neglected to register the domain. He quickly registered it himself, putting up [[http://waxwolf.com/yuckyworld.org/index-old.html a placeholder page]]. Soon thereafter, he was contacted by Sesame Workshop and transferred the domain to them, and the viewer received several e-mails from parents who had watched the show and visited the site, thanking him for keeping the domain from being registered by a ShockSite. Today the yuckyworld.org domain, while no longer functioning as a website, is still owned by Sesame Workshop.[[/note]]
* ''Series/ICarly'' has quite a few examples from links on its show, like: http://worldofchucks.com or http://chickapedia.com, which redirect to the iCarly website.
** [[ShowWithinAShow iCarly.com itself]]. Many websites not even directly mentioned in the show as well -- for example ''[=TheSlap=]'', which appears only at the beginning of the intro credits later became [[Series/{{Victorious}} Hollywood Arts' social networking site]], as well as the ''[[Creator/DanSchneider DanWarp]]'' page.

[[folder:Newspaper Comics]]
* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' once used this trick: [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2000/ga000907.gif One of the strips]] has the titular cat ordering coffee from a site called coffeequick.com, which Jim Davis apparently registered and checked for visitors IRL.
** [[OlderThanTheyThink Beforehand]], [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2000/ga000730.gif this strip]] had Odie registering dingleball.com. Both sites led to web games which can now be found on the official Garfield website: [[http://garfield.com/game/dingleball Dingle Ball]] for the Dingleball.com strip, [[http://garfield.com/game/bean-me Bean Me!]] for the Coffeequick.com strip.
* ''ComicStrip/PricklyCity'' managed to screw this one up by mentioning a fake URL ([=CoyotePAC.org=]) in one comic that the authors didn't bother to register in real life. Cue a porn spammer grabbing the real-life domain as quickly as possible after the comic was printed. Oops.
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** Also Travis owns buttercupisaverygoodgirl.com which contains pictures of his dog princess butttercup, and a not that she is a very good dog

[[folder:Webcomics]]

* In the first ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'' film "Bender's Big Score", Bender's e-mail address is bender@ilovebender.com. Typing in www.ilovebender.com redirects to the official ''Futurama'' website.

* ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'' has the phone number 1-844-MML-MSNG. Calling it in RealLife gave you [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6j_CCGJqPc this gem.]]

* During the 2004 debates, dink Cheney suggested that Americans should go to factcheck.com. Unfortunately, anybody performing such a check would have been sent to a domain unaffiliated with the non-partisan factcheck.org, and which was subsequently redirected to George Soros' Web site.

* In a episode from ''WebAnimation/MundoUltimateNewsCp'' This the website of Antarctica delivery company Crate Co (Pacotes Ltda): https://www.pacotes.ltda.com.aq. But when trying to access, the address will not be available. If you try to check the domain availability you will find that it is impossible to register because the '' .aq '' corresponds to Antarctica, and in the real world, only an organization that signed the Antarctic Treaty could register it. Curious.

* In a episode from''WebAnimation/MundoUltimateNewsCp'' This the website of Antarctica delivery company Crate Co (Pacotes Ltda): https://www.pacotes.ltda.com.aq. But when trying to access, the address will not be available. If you try to check the domain availability you will find that it is impossible to register because the '' .aq '' corresponds to Antarctica, and in the real world, only an organization that signed the Antarctic Treaty could register it. Curious.

* ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'' uses this and an in-game browser as gameplay mechanics: many investigation missions require the player to follow web addresses found on in-game cards or billboards to solve Investigation missions. [[http://orochi-group.com/ The Orochi Group]] and its eight subsidiaries are one major nexus, unsurprisingly, given their [[MegaCorp status within the game world]]. The Hell and Bach mission eventually rewards the clever with [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC88pAVsVZqL_L_f3RoM_EQQ a spoilerific YouTube channel]], and other missions reference other social media as well. There are also [[CharacterBlog Twitter accounts]] for some [=NPCs=], such as [[http://twitter.com/dontgetcarter Carter]].

* During the 2004 debates, Dick Cheney suggested that Americans should go to factcheck.com. Unfortunately, anybody performing such a check would have been sent to a domain unaffiliated with the non-partisan factcheck.org, and which was subsequently redirected to George Soros' Web site.

** sexymugshots.com (redirects to McElroy YouTube)