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RonPaul iPhone Headquarters: a campaign website for the first iPhone

A look at the 2007 mobile campaign site built by Terra Eclipse for Ron Paul’s 2008 campaign.

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RonPaul iPhone Headquarters was a mobile website built by Terra Eclipse for the Ron Paul 2008 campaign. The original July 2, 2007 listing directed readers to ronpaul2008.com/iphone and described an interface intended for an EDGE connection. This was a campaign-specific web destination during the first iPhone’s launch period.

A campaign page sized for a phone

The mobile address is the central detail. A visitor could follow a campaign link from the handset instead of starting at a general desktop homepage. The emphasis on EDGE also places the design in a particular era: the site’s pitch concerned reaching information over a mobile connection, rather than installing a modern campaign app.

The short record does not document donation processing, voter registration, message targeting or an organizing database. It also called the redesign a first for a campaign, but provides no comparison establishing that priority. This overview therefore preserves the developer and original destination without repeating that promotional claim.

This is a historical software profile, not an endorsement or a current campaign resource. The 2008 site’s operation has not been verified. Its place in the archive is as an example of organizations adapting their existing websites to the new phone.