stimmyabby:

I like the interenet. I mean the physical space. it’s so… quiet. I imagine a quiet place full of windows. words fly back and forth like birds.

 

theyarnmonster:

To me it’s an incredibly intricately designed rug. The rug is in a large cool quiet room. I can get really close to an individual strand and see specifics. I can stand way back and look at big pattern too.

 

flowerfight:

To me it’s a big wide space where everybody builds things out of colorful building blocks. Some blocks have words on them.

 

twinkletrans:

to be it’s a tiny black cube packed as densely as possible with information and electric sparks.

 

mahoushounen:

To me it’s the vast, colorless expanse and everywhere there is web content, it’s a number of constructs reaching towards the equally colorless sky. Some of these constructs are like buildings filled with people’s thoughts and feelings. Others are like arcades. Some are just there to look at. Some are abandoned like artifacts of an artificial world.

 

readworldsofbooks:

To me it’s a storm cloud, immense and seemingly endless, sending out images at random at lightning speed, constantly morphing and evolving as it consumes everything in the sky, pouring down information that can both hurt and destroy and and breed life

 

thesuperfeyneednoshoes:

To me it’s like a cloud layer in the sky, like somebody painted a big white stripe over the horizon, with rectangles of information hanging from it. My screen is like a magic telescope that can zoom in anywhere; the pages rearrange themselves physically as I browse them, so the ones I’ve been paying attention to group themselves over my head for easy access. It is semi-sentient, or at least appears to be, because of the influence of other watchers.

 

empresspinto:

like an electric synapse version of a playground spiderweb rope climby thing, too

 

otakuforever2812:

To me the internet is a vast ocean, full of different colors and life. Running deeper then we’ve even dreamed of. Layers upon layers of blue water beautiful and soft while at the same time full of things we have yet to learn about.

 

5t4rch1ld:

To me it’s a massive city and each site is a building and each account is a home

 

itslillady:

To me it’s also a city, sprawling out into suburbs. The center of the city where the big buildings and skyscrapers are, are the official blogs and fandom blogs. Each block is categorized by type, such as music, tv shows, books, movies. “downtown” is where all the blog types I don’t like, where people are nasty and extremely anti-something. The further out you get from the city, the more that each building/house is personal. They’re still sectioned, because personal blogs tend to group together as they find other people like them, so it’s like okay the northeast corner is where the arts and crafts blogs generally are. To the southeast is where the mumblr/family blogs are. Southwest is where we see younger blogs and those that are posting quotes and photos that they find relevant to themselves. The northwest is my favorite corner, where you can find tips, self-help, and blogs that are more centered around living with mental illness or disabilities of some sort.

 

thetransintransgenic:

Honestly it’s never just one thing to me, any more than a school or a synagogue or a city is just one thing, but recently to me it’s been a web of connections, glowing phosphorescent white against the utter blackness – an utter emptiness of all information and a complete absence of presence – against the web, pulsing with information. And here – bouncing with activity as a group of friends gather and swap stories and jokes and games and simply exist in their corner – and there a meeting of professionals and hobbyists and hackers and students, discussing the present and future of the internet, and pluck one strand and watch it vibrate – following the links as the ripple through clumps of wikis and blogs and social networks, and you can watch as one section rears up and strikes at another, flexing and flooding with angry waves of light, back and forth, so you’d think the web would tear itself in half… but it just comes back all the more strongly connected. And every beautiful and horrible and strange and terrifying place on this chaotic, multidimensional web created and maintained and lived in by people and people and people – strange people, terrifying, horrible people, beautiful people talking and sharing and building and living living living on this beautiful web…

But it’s never just one thing, but, but, but, but it’s home.

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