diff --git a/docs/user/quickstart.rst b/docs/user/quickstart.rst
index 9d4e690436..f3543567bc 100644
--- a/docs/user/quickstart.rst
+++ b/docs/user/quickstart.rst
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ We can read the content of the server's response. Consider the GitHub timeline
 again::
 
     >>> import requests
-    >>> r = requests.get('https://github.com/timeline.json')
+    >>> r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/events')
     >>> r.text
     u'[{"repository":{"open_issues":0,"url":"https://github.com/...
 
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ JSON Response Content
 There's also a builtin JSON decoder, in case you're dealing with JSON data::
 
     >>> import requests
-    >>> r = requests.get('https://github.com/timeline.json')
+    >>> r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/events')
     >>> r.json()
     [{u'repository': {u'open_issues': 0, u'url': 'https://github.com/...
 
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ In the rare case that you'd like to get the raw socket response from the
 server, you can access ``r.raw``. If you want to do this, make sure you set
 ``stream=True`` in your initial request. Once you do, you can do this::
 
-    >>> r = requests.get('https://github.com/timeline.json', stream=True)
+    >>> r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/events', stream=True)
     >>> r.raw
     <requests.packages.urllib3.response.HTTPResponse object at 0x101194810>
     >>> r.raw.read(10)