Bleeding Edge too dull for terrorists

[John Bailey]

This morning's internet traffic and weather report was about the
obsolete 90s virtual realm Active Worlds. Nobody has been on there for
a long time but someone livestreaming their visit to the abandoned
realm (because it's abandoned - basically a haunted house tour of the
web) ran across a bot that turned out to be much more. As in, a person
who has been hanging around in an empty virtual world for a decade or
longer. Or is something else.

There's more to the story but that idea of the conscientious online
castaway is such a sweet one. And Deep Archer is totally based on
worlds such as this, and I can only imagine what the peeps who ran
into him back in the day read in his dialogue box.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRgATG6PUA0

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:49 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> A---And....P's half-prophetic role in effect in BE; the theme, as you've
> noted if I don't distort, of a new 'pure' space which really isn't or won't
> stay that way if it is......
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 7:45 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> There you go again, spoiling a perfectly good techno-mythology with dull
>> facts. As Pynchon knew perfectly well while he was writing BE, we *need* the
>> dark Web to be full of apocalyptic schemes and secrets, just like Pirate
>> needed his sleepy sweaty Middle Eastern garrison to be the origin of the
>> next Mahdi.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 4:00 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2016/03/dark-web-too-slow-and-annoying-terrorists/127002/
>>
>>
>
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