User:Rmwastaken/sandbox

Browser game websites, web game websites, online game websites*

* Online games sites are also named to websites hosting an online multiplayer game, not just websites to

Unblocked Game Websites
Unblocked games are games on websites which have been built on educational platforms (e.g, Github Pages, Gitlab Pages, etc), to trick academic filters into thinking the game site is the educational platform it is built on. Some sites, however have been built with proxies. Upon visting the game site on a domain different from the main one, an external server connects to the main site while not being on the main domain, so the academic filter does not automatically recognize the proxy domains and lists the game site uncategorized and therefore unblocked. Unblocked games sites are also built on specific website builders such as weebly.com or sites.google.com. Despite these website builders not offering proxy services or are on educational platforms, sites built on these domains remain unblocked in many school districts, which is why it is a popular choice.

History
Around the late 1990s to early 2000s, public libraries, and soon companies and schools began implementing web filters, also known as filtering software on devices to prevent people from accessing unwanted websites. Because of this, people began building web proxies and uploaded games with website builders such as Weebly and Google Sites, along with others publishing their website on free website hosting services.

Library Filtering Controversy
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The first unblocked-type site known, designed for the sole purpose of bypassing work and school filters with web proxies is https://sites.google.com/site/albin19832/. Albin19832 was created as a database of web proxies to unblock the internet for people in work-related devices. The site owner of albin19832 said in his own site that it was created in 2007 from the footer of this screenshot and in the web proxy spreadsheet file you can download from his website, the WayBack Machine shows that the file was uploaded to 4shared in X, Xth 2007. For viable proof of this site's existence, the earliest screenshot of his website dates to February 2008.

In 2008-2009 i forgot (put exact date), user [username] shared his own website (sitelink) for students at school to play games. is the first known unblocked game site.

As more non-educational websites became blocked in school devices, activity spiked in websites such as CoolMath Games, Math Playground, HoodaMath, and Learn4Good as they were labeled as websites that offered educational games for students, but never labeled themselves as offering non-educational games, despite also doing so.

As these educational websites gained popularity for also offering non-educational games, creation of websites designed for the sole puprose of bringing games to those in school or work accelerated. Google Sites, weebly, etc dev

Removing Sitelocking
mad4fp

bait and switch

good source: https://www.google.com/search?q=my+work+blocked+this+website&rlz=1CAIFNA_enUS1019US1019&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A2005%2Ccd_max%3A2009&tbm=&safe=active&ssui=on

https://www.google.com/search?q=my+work+blocked+this+website&rlz=1CAIFNA_enUS1019US1019&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A2000%2Ccd_max%3A2004&tbm=&safe=active&ssui=on

https://www.google.com/search?q=my+work+blocked+this+website&rlz=1CAIFNA_enUS1019US1019&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1994%2Ccd_max%3A2000&tbm=&safe=active&ssui=on

https://www.ifla.org/publications/internet-censorship-filtering-and-rating/

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