The Internet is a super highway, they say, that is super as in big, not like theatrical heroics, (though I suppose the power to provide instant pornography at any touch of a button is a weird sort of super power??) And this is what got me thinking, what if the internet was an actual road?
Pot holes formed by packet loss, shaky old run down houses would be lost Geo-cities sites, the owner long grown out of blogging about their cat Stacey, that patch of rundown country over there is Myspace, and yes, you can hear the simultaneous cacophony of a billion midi files playing at once.
There would be infinity junctions, stopping at every site on the way to find some electronic sustenance, though most junctions would lead to a kind of brothel, because of all the porn.
Digital Billboards would appear and then fall on your car and smash you in the face telling you about pills you could acquire and email would be horn beeps from other vehicles, but they would not be brash sharp toots they would be people screeching about how they live in foreign worlds and have wads of cash, they just need you to pay a transaction fee for some reason??
I am glad virtuality is so fast because the traffic on this highway would be diabolical.