History Main / TheInternetIsAnOcean

* The infamous file-sharing website, The Pirate Bay, takes the ocean metaphor to its logical conclusion. The even more infamous Website/FourChan instead describes the Internet as an "ocean of piss".

* ''Animation/OldMasterQIncrediblePetDetective'' has the titular character, as well as Mr Chou and Big Potato and other characters. The first two get sucked into cyberspace with a dog, swimming in a literal Digital Sea, and the three end up [[ShoutOut looking like]] [[Film/TheMatrix Neo]], [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} a T-800]] and [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]]. [[WidgetSeries It's that kind of movie.]]

-->--'''Strong Bad''', ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'', ''"Dreamail"''

* The infamous file-sharing website, The Pirate Bay, takes the ocean metaphor to its logical conclusion.

* ''Webcomic/{{XKCD}}'' has a (somewhat outdated: It's from mid-2010) "Map of the Internet" depicting it as an archipelago [[https://xkcd.com/802/ in this strip]]. The [[https://xkcd.com/256/ previous one]] was from early 2007.

* ''Webcomic/{{XKCD}}'' has a (somewhat outdated: It's from late 2010) "Map of the Internet" depicting it as an archipelago [[https://xkcd.com/802/ in this strip]].

* ''Webcomic/{{XKCD}}'' has a (somewhat outdated) "Map of the Internet" depicting it as an archipelago [[https://xkcd.com/802/ in this strip]].

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* ''Series/AdamRuinsEverything'': "Adam Ruins The Internet" depicts it this way. Adam takes his subject on a rowboat into a cyberspace ocean and literally "fishes" for people's information.

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic: "It's All About The Pentiums": There's a line where an Internet modem is metaphorically a surfboard, which is waxed, connecting the idea of the Internet to an ocean:

*** The first season's ending themsong "Lithium Flower" contextually refers to how amazing Motoko is at "surfing", a reference to her being a Super-Class-A hacker.

*** The first season's ending themsong "Lithium Flower" contextually refers to how amazing Motoko is at "surfing"

->''Well plain ol' Danny, there are a lot of email-fish out there in the Email Sea. And while most of them are those nasty bottom-feeders with a suckhole mouth, there are a few that break the glimmering surface of the water, to glisten in the sunset for a few fleeting moments, like some kind of glorious e-marlin.''

* ''Anime/DigimonUniverseApplimonsters'': While the Net Ocean has always been a location in the wider ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' multiverse, it's most prominent in ''Applimonsters'', where it makes up the vast majority of the Internet. The BigBad is even called Leviathan, after the Biblical sea serpent, and it lurks in the Dark Web in the depths of Net Ocean.

* ''Animation/OldMasterQIncrediblePetDetective'' has the titular character, as well as Mr Chou and Big Potato and other characters. The first two get sucked into cyberspace with a dog, swimming in a literal Digital Sea and the three end up [[ShoutOut looking like]] [[Film/TheMatrix Neo]], [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} a T-800]] and [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]]. [[WidgetSeries It's that kind of movie.]]

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic: "It's All About The Pentiums": There's a line where an Internet modem is metaphorically a surfboard, which are waxed, connecting the idea of the Internet to an ocean:

* In ''VideoGame/FateExtra'', the dungeons within SE.RA.PH.'s cyberspace are depicted as an enormous ocean, with the actual traversible part being a transparent structure that offers a clear view of the seas beyond, complete with sunken structures and fish. Many of the enemy programs are also styled after fish.

* ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'': Played with in the forms of the Saucy Mare and Ray Tracer. The former is a(n ex)pirate ship run by the Crimson Binome, Captain Capacitor which sails across the the Net trading with different systems. Equipped with the remains of Web Creatures as armor, the ship can also sail into the Web itself, which is portrayed as a much more intense maelstrom. Ray is a search engine that takes the form of a sprite on a surfboard who literally "surfs the web" while looking for interesting sights.

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* Creator/KenAkamatsu has a way of depicting the internet as an endless ocean. Tuna is a DOS attack.

* ''Anime/YuGiOhVRAINS'': VRAINS ([[FunWithAcronyms standing for]] Virtual Reality Artificial Intelligence Network System) is occasionally hit with "Data Storms", which usually manifest as gales or tornados. However, when they are particularly powerful, they manifest as tsunami waves. In addition, the digital city within VRAINS has a sewer system to recycle data, and that data behaves a lot like water - in fact, there are digital screatures swimming in there.

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* Music/WeirdAlYankovic: "It's All About The Pentiums": There's a line where an internet modem is metaphorically a surfboard, which are waxed, connecting the idea of the internet to an ocean:

* Creator/KenAkamatsu has a way of depicting the internet as an endless ocean. Tuna is a DOS attack, probably for a Bucket Filtering pun, fish in a bucket and all.
** ''Manga/AILoveYou'': Cyberspace is depicted as an ocean filled with fish who represent programs (the fish species depends on the nature of the program, with tuna being a DOS attack, for example). It's also stated that there are as many different cyberspace oceans as there are digital networks.
** ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'''s chapter 154.

* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': Chisame enters cyberspace to fight Chachamaru, and it is represented as an ocean with fish as programs. This dimension is most likely shared with ''A.I. Love You'', listed above, as Creator/KenAkamatsu is behind both works.

* ''Manga/AILoveYou'': Cyberspace is depicted as an ocean filled with fish who represent programs (the fish species depends on the nature of the program, with tuna being a DOS attack, for example). It's also stated that there are as many different cyberspace oceans as there are digital networks.