Facebook's status update announcing the closure read as follows:

Thanks to everyone who tried out Facebook Lite. We're no longer supporting it, but learned a lot from the test of a slimmed-down site. If you used Lite, you'll now be taken to the main Facebook.com site.

The pared-down version of the social network was meant to serve dial-up users and those in third-world countries with slower connections. Facebook did announce another stripped down version of itself called Facebook Zero last February at the Mobile World Congress, but going to this site from a browser simply gets the message "Sorry, your carrier does not support zero.facebook.com."

We've asked Facebook if any other alternative will be available for slow-connection and dial-up users, but did not receive a response by press time.