NationSquid

Since the dawn of time, the world has been filled with threats and those who try to understand them. And this applies to the digital world as well, and there was certainly a time, not too long ago in fact, where most people didn't understand these threats at all. So, throughout the 1990s, on the NEW worldwide web, you end up having these mass panics of computer viruses with alleged capabilities that go beyond the screen, almost supernatural. And of course, many people rode on these fears either in jest or to obtain some kind of control on those who are gullible. Just like how the satirical tabloid "Weekly World News" once published a story about a computer virus that can spread to humans. Because that's ridiculous! We all know how a computer virus works, it's a malicious piece of code that is able to replicate itself and infect other computers on the same network, whether it's the internet or some kind of local network, where it can then do whatever it is programmed TO do.

Remember those websites that you visited a couple times during the early internet? The ones that just stood out as being so...weird? Where your memories are just so fuzzy that you even ask yourself: was any of that real? Yes, it's not just you. They were real. I thought it would be interesting to talk about them and find out what exactly their deal was!