888 commonly refers to: *

888 (number) 888 (eight hundred eighty-eight) is the natural number following 887 and preceding 889. It is a strobogrammatic number that reads the same right-side up and upside-down on a seven-segment calculator display, symbolic in various mystical tradi ...

, an integer *

888 BC This article concerns the period 889 BC – 880 BC. Events and trends * 887 BC— Soshenq II succeeds Osorkon I as king of Egypt. *885 BC—Takelot I succeeds Soshenq II as king of Egypt. *885 BC— King Yi of Zhou, son of King Yih, is restored ...

, a year of the 9th century BC *

AD 888 __NOTOC__ Year 888 ( DCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * January 13 – Emperor Charles III (the Fat) dies at Neidingen, after having suffered repeat bouts of an illnes ...

, a year of the Julian calendar 888 or triple eight may also refer to:

Telecommunication

* 888 is prefix/area code for

toll-free telephone numbers in the North American Numbering Plan Toll-free telephone numbers in the North American Numbering Plan have the area code prefix ''800'', ''833'', ''844'', ''855'', ''866'', ''877'', or ''888''. Additionally, area codes 822, 880 through 887, and 889 are reserved for toll-free use in t ...

* 888 is the number used to dial up

teletext Teletext, or broadcast teletext, is a standard for displaying text and rudimentary graphics on suitably equipped television sets. Teletext sends data in the broadcast signal, hidden in the invisible vertical blanking interval area at the to ...

, subtitles on some programmes shown on European television channels *

Qualcomm Snapdragon Snapdragon is a suite of system-on-chip (SoC) semiconductor products for mobile devices designed and marketed by Qualcomm, who often refers to these SoCs as "mobile platforms". They typically integrate central processing units (CPU) based o ...

888, a chip system for mobile devices

Gambling

888casino 888casino, formerly Casino-on-Net, is an online casino brand owned by Evoke plc. It was founded in 1997, and is headquartered in Gibraltar. It is one of the Internet's oldest casinos, and in 2013 it became the first exclusively online casino to b ...

, an online casino *

888 Holdings Evoke plc, formerly 888 Holdings Limited, is an international sports betting and gambling company. It owns brands such as 888casino, 888poker, 888sport, Mr Green, and William Hill. Business operations are led from its headquarters in London, a ...

, an online gambling company, trading as "888.com" *

888poker 888poker, formerly Pacific Poker, is an international online poker brand owned by Evoke plc. It was founded in 2002, and is headquartered in Gibraltar. History The poker provider was originally launched in 2002 as ''Pacific Poker'' and later r ...

, an online poker room *

888sport 888sport is an international sports betting brand owned by Evoke plc. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in Gibraltar. The company provides online sports betting, predominantly in European markets. History 888sport was launched as the ...

, an online bookmaker

Art and entertainment

888chan An imageboard is a type of Internet forum that focuses on the posting of images, often alongside text and discussion. The first imageboards were created in Japan as an extension of the textboard concept. These sites later inspired the creation of ...

, an image board * ''888'' (manga), by Noriko Kuwata *

Triple 8 Triple 8 (a.k.a. 888 or Triple Eight) was an English boy band signed to Polydor Records and Osmosis Records. The group was marketed as the British equivalent of NSYNC, and rivals to manufactured boy bands such as Five (group), Five, Westlife and ...

, a British boy band * ''888'', a song by

Cavetown Robin Daniel Skinner (born 15 December 1998), known professionally as Cavetown (sometimes stylised in all lowercase), is an English singer-songwriter, record producer, and YouTuber. His style blends elements of indie rock, indie pop and bedroom ...

Other uses

Ducati 888 The Ducati 888 is a motorcycle manufactured by Ducati between 1991 and 1994 as an upgrade to the Ducati 851. The earlier 851 had introduced liquid cooling, computerized fuel injection and four-valve heads to the company's two cylinder motors. I ...

, a motorcycle *

Route 888 (Israel) Route 888 is a north-south regional highway in northern Israel. It begins at Beit Tzida junction with Highway 87 and ends at Beit HaMekhes junction with Highway 91. Junctions (South to North) References See also *List of highways in Is ...

, a road in Israel *

Triple Eight Race Engineering Triple Eight Race Engineering, branded as Red Bull Ampol Racing in Supercars, is an Australian motor racing team competing in the Supercars Championship. The team has been the only Brisbane-based V8 Supercar team since its formation, originall ...

, an Australian motor racing team, related to the British team *

Triple Eight Racing Triple Eight Racing (888 Racing) was a motorsports team formed in 1996 as Triple Eight Race Engineering, which competed in the British Touring Car Championship and the British GT Championship. The team's original focus was to design, build an ...

, an English motor racing team * 8/8/8 is a nickname for the

2008 South Ossetia War The August 2008 Russo-Georgian War, also known as the Russian invasion of Georgia,Occasionally, the war is also referred to by other names, such as the Five-Day War and August War. was a war waged against Georgia by the Russian Federation and the ...

that broke out on August 8, 2008 * 888 is a contraction of the labour movement's slogan for the

Eight-hour day The eight-hour day movement (also known as the 40-hour week movement or the short-time movement) was a social movement to regulate the length of a working day, preventing excesses and abuses of working time. The modern movement originated i ...

* 4-hole extension of the ISO 838 standard of filing holes punched in paper is sometimes called "888"