Many major websites went dark for one minute in honor of the victims at Newtown, Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The websites went dark briefly on Friday at 9:30 a.m. as part of the national moment of silence.
Participating websites included The Huffington Post, Digg and AOL, reported CNN. The Web Goes Silent campaign started on the Causes.com page with more than 100,000 people and sites pledged to participate. It was also organized by Nick Grossman who is a visiting scholar at MIT Media Lab with Causes.com
Many people also stopped using Facebook, Twitter and other websites for the minute in honor of the 20 children and six adults that were tragically gunned down and killed by Adam Lanza at the school last week.
The banner that was over many websites for that minute read, "We are observing a National Moment of Silence for the victims of the Sandy Hook tragedy."
Facebook and Twitter were also part of the campaign with the #momentforsandyhook spread throughout and users went up to 5 minutes of silence. "We encourage all of you to join us by not Tweeting, posting to Facebook, emailing or texting for five minutes, starting at 9:30 AM ET," Mashable's Launce Ulanoff wrote according to ABC News.
Causes.com is a startup that utilizes social media for funds for different charities and awareness for different causes.
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Ron Conway promoted the moment of silence online. He's helped spread the word about the causes.com campaign as well as other celebrities such as Suze Orman, Tyler Florence, Ryan Seacrest and Britney Spears, reported CNN.
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