DeDanaan

Filed by Aine MacDermot

Internet, internets : “It’s a jungle out there.”

Barring reference to an overgrown mass of wild vegetation, the phrase in question has never been more suitably applied than with reference to the Earth’s multi-networked, mostly incompatible computer megasystem known throughout the MultiVerse as ‘the Internet.’ With billions of web pages (and counting), thousands of new, and mostly unknowing, users coming online by the day, and a means of navigation akin almost to Blind Man’s Buff (an archaic reference to a children’s game), the ‘Net gets more awesomely cool and insanely complicated by the day. Too bad it gets destroyed when the hyperspace bypass comes through.