The Internet City

Would Amazon.com be like Harrods or something?

I've thought about it.

Warning: oddly specific.

The Pirate Bay is the mole people sewer place, but the mole is a misnomer. The place is huge enough to sail a large pirate ship. Everyone knows about it, no one really cares.

The Great Firewall is a large land within the city guarded by barbed wires. People outside can easily get in, but it is illegal for people inside to get out. However, it is super easy to do so.

NASA.gov (told you, oddly specific): invisible chain of floating islands on the edge of the city limit. It's very disorganized across the islands, ranging from emptiness to clutter to glamourous architecture. People kinda know they are there, but since it is hard to travel there no one bothered.

Airgapped: small iron cages that uses the same archetype as the city but do not communicate with it. Some may eventually connect with the outside world, either voluntary like A Song of Ice and Fire or thru hacking.

Wooooo second page! It's a proper thread now!

I think a lot of forums would become urban battlefields.

That makes sense, but I think that flame wars are just, well, arguments.

edited 18th May '15 6:20:48 PM by SmartGirl333

^ So they'd be beer halls and political conventions?

At the start I said that forums would be residential areas, but that makes sense too

This kind of makes me want to write a Guns N' Roses parody.... "Take me down to the internet city, where the porn is free and the memes are witty". Something like that.

Also, social media being "parks, malls, etc", made me think about the social media sites that aren't used anymore being Abandoned Areas. Although looking at the "real life" section made me decide that, as long as a seldom used site still exists, it's more like a dead mall.

edited 18th May '15 8:10:51 PM by MikeK

That needs to exist NAO.

Websites which host video games (browser or downloadable) would be arcades or game stores.

Someone else probably brought this up before, but commercial websites like Amazon and eBay would be shopping centers.

That was me. Hopefully they'd be nice ones like Harrods or the West Edmonton Mall.

Websites involving illegal activity (child porn, drug trade, terrorism, etc.) would of course be the crime-infested ghetto/slum.

edited 19th May '15 11:08:52 AM by AHI-3000

So the Deep Web would be that too, eh?

Those ideas are great!

Harrods isn't nice - it would be more the shop near the merchant's markets that tries to be the best.

The merchant's market would be those small shops where you know you can buy the most expensive stuff ever, but you need a particular manner to go in and know exactly what you want.

Sounds complicated.

Another analogy for forums:

The ones that are well-moderated are some kind of relatively peaceful social clubs with a decent police force.

The ones infested with trolls and flaming are the kinds of places where drunken rioting and urban combat happen.

Blogs however are difficult to place. They are both soapboxes for people who want to be heard, and sometimes social gatherings of a smaller and more regulated sort than forums. Best I can think of is that they're private houses with enough room to hold parties.

Blogs are houses where people put up signs in their garden but occasionally invite people inside to talk about the random signs they're putting up outside.

The deep web is the underground, everyone knows its there and that criminals use it to get to the bad parts of town, but half the population have no bloody idea how to get down there even if they wanted to.

Search engines are public transport, with the more data mining heavy ones being personal self driving cars.

Pewdiepie is a movie star. With Youtube being the cinema and all

YTP = Shitty B-Movies

My first thought for webcomics was, obv, comic books or newspaper comics, but what about the ones that include flash segments? (coughHomestuckcough)

Maybe like one of those holographic thingies?

Holographic thingies?