INTERNET MYTHOLOGY

Gods

The Algorithm — a dangerous and powerful tyrant

Old Memes — benevolent, creatures of joy and peace and distraction

God of Hackers

God of Unity

Magic Places

Old websites that haven't been updated since the 90s

The Dark Web

IMDB

Craigslist

Computer Weeds!!!

You've heard of computer viruses! Now introducing: Computer Weeds!!!!!!

bits of code that clump together in ways that slowly grow, and are also beautiful.
Imagine futures of computer JUNGLES that are dense and impassible to humans, in which lurk wildlife, made visible and tangible by AR??
But here is just the beginning, with the weeds in the cracks in the sidewalks.
We just start to notice that there are more than usual, is all.

It started with the weeds between the cracks in the sidewalks.

ROOTS—searching, with a kind of awareness and intelligence to them
- Not being controlled by humans, controlled by themselves.
Plants are cool

WEATHER

Weather is the result of lots of seemingly unrelated small systems influencing each other and creating massive powerful events that are impossible to control

Color changing sky—a first indicator that something weird is up
AR only weather along with our AR only plants
Can't be the main thing, because it can't be influenced once its started. Needs to be out outward thing that correlates to big events that people DO have power over
Overcoming weather, the natural hostility of an environment — as we create the internet, its nature is created by us, its hostility is our making — climate change metaphor

The summer solstice JUNE 21

The spring equinox March 20

Coding as a Hard Magic system

limitations: knowledge, hardware?

items of power! — learn about blockchain, uniqueness in code

costs: ???

ex, using plant magic might kill all the pants in your vicinity

Corporate stuff — extremely unmagical The longer its been since a website's code has been touched, the more weird dust it accumulates and the more magic it becomes
Easter eggs — sometimes devs put them there, sometimes they just sort of happen…
Viral stuff — entities of great but brief power
The mass of the collective Open source
Fandom — hype built by humans giving power but also form

Mission Icefly

giant event of unknown creation or purpose, presented with ideas of “chosen one” and saving the future

http://icefly.wikibruce.com/The_Genesis

AR scavenger hunt by an unknown source for an unknown goal
The power human spirit, on a mission preventing dystopia, everyone is the "chosen one"
not random—exists for a reason

Liminal Things

Weight scales at movie theaters and rest stops
A pamphlet slid underneath an apartment door
Empty lots
Invisible doors to the 2nd floor apartments above street-level stores
Quarter dispenser machines filled with weird stuff

MIX IT UP

this is getting too sparkly and green, need some umami

sports
spaghetti
hunting
a juicy peach
the desert
pumpkin pie
mud
chaotic storms