plastic_window said:
Let's say that the internet was a country somewhere. Maybe like an island out in the ocean. What would it be like?
Like Earth, except the land marks are shaped differently.
How many people live there?
Billions, but quite a few of them are spam bots and trolls.
What's it like for crime?
Well, lots of illegal and mostly deadly stuff is sold in spam regions across the globe, and there is a high concentration of organised crime in the areas known as Youtube and 4chan.
As I have said before:
Like Earth, except the land marks are shaped differently.
They can be any design you want. As long as it fits within the 500 brick limit.
The Internet has two capitals. Facebook and Twitter. Facebook is a bustling city, filled with culture and thriving on the various people, groups, bands and communities that lie there. Twitter is the same except conversations can only ever consist of 150 characters or less.
And more importantly... Where do we Escapists fit in?
We are one of the more civilised countries in the gargantuan continent known as "Forums".
There is but one rule:
You can't copy the internet from Futurama. I saw those episodes too.
I didn't actually think of that until reading that post.