I feel like I can briefly summarize the history of the network called “internet”, in order to attempt an explanation of the whys it has changed from a secret reserved to initiates, to the most powerful media, accessible to half the inhabitants of planet Earth. I utilize a metaphor based on the creation of the universe, according to Christian doctrine, even if the internet appears to be rather profane. In effect, I can remember that the first computer programmer of history was Ada Lovelace, and that one of the most important reasons for the popularity of personal computers was, and is, Linda Lovelace, so that “love-lace” is the nature of web subjects. Shortly, the creation of the virtual universe. On the first day, video games such as “Space Invaders” and “Pacman” entered the PC and took the control of a part of our minds. On the second day, someone decided to show us that everyone can successfully substitute analogical office tools with a personal computer. On the third day, the web was young and involved exclusively computer nerds. On the fourth day, people knew that the internet was able to host social communications, even in real-time. On the fifth day, it was Google to ingest everything you’re googling. On the sixth day, grumpy cat completed the creation with big amounts of grumpiness, before descending to the reign of underworld. As you know, today is the seventh day, and it has been sanctified, partly due to the expectations bound to artificial intelligence. Naturally, the sanctification of PC is assigned to ritual activities, coming from the praxes of web users.
What are the functions of religious-like internet rites? First, I recall the content of an old page of 2015, and successively I’m going to update it. As it seems to me, some of the most frequent internet rites are the following: to induce good looking housewives to easier fornication; to support the maximum of self-indulgence; to let fundamentalists prepare quickly their bombs and explosives; to transform any politician into self-referential peacock, emitting 25 stupid tweets per second; to adore personal digital idols; to multiply the number of the marks of the Beast, thanks to apposite photographic software; to conclude indecent pacts with search engines and questionable sites, although no one knows who really cares about conquering your soul, and put it into a storage archive; to feed aspiring hackers with a plenty of malicious codes, all described in dusty apocalyptical treaties; to get in touch with hidden dark forces, trying not to yawn; to exert racism against racists, because my ideal fight is always better than yours, no debate; to spread fully automatic witchcraft applications, possibly avoiding the usual boobs & butts; to pray Satan and all the infernal powerful Lords, in order to increase the number of your friends on Facebook and other social networks, three new friends each demonical click; to visit this blog when the moon is full, after the preparation of a pentacle enlightened by black candles, while the LOL cats are meowing for no apparent reasons, through the thick fog of the past days becoming new days, in the deepest of darkness, tell me what the hell you can see there; to be strong enough to face Daemon, Kerberos and Python, with finger and other commands; and especially, to fasten the routine when you want to do the things you don’t want to confess me to want.
Sadly, the peculiarity of human race is that bad things can always go even worse. Thus, the best of progress consists of worsening human condition with optimism, and a large smile on the face. Of course, during the inevitable process of the above, further internet rites are established. Another list can be compiled, as follows: to force anyone to follow a new ethical system, namable “political correctness”, in which the enlightened master bureaucrats are classifying everything as right, or wrong; to adore a group of scientific priests, who are revealing an innovative gospel, including a pharmacology of immortality, a creative genetics for manipulating the principles of life, and the alleged laws of environmental sustainability; to leave European, professional sports entirely in the hands of emerging mafias, mostly Chinese and Russian-Ukrainian, while fooling anyone with a crazy war between Russia and Ukraine; to reinforce Chinese monopoly over rare earths elements, fundamental to new economy and to the survival of the web; to organize, develop, and spread a series of pandemics, in order to gradually destroy any aspiration to individual freedom; to make anyone believe that artificial intelligence is the path to obtain a divine status, while it is simply a tool for renewing pornography, the untold unifying factor of the global network; and so on.
In conclusion, you should keep the faith in the virtual Big Brother, as seen by everyone, and not considered for what it is by anyone. Of course, the mix of the page is dedicated to the indispensable computers, that let you receive messages from the virtual Big Brother.
File name is “thanks to the intercession of your PC, by Max Look DJ (Dec 2024)”, 1 hour and 22’ of beautiful, danceable music dedicated to computers.
Laptop to the top, the playlist:
Intro: Hal 9000 sings Daisy (from “2001: A Space Odyssey”)
Kate Bush – deeper understanding (1989)
Zapp & Roger – computer love (1985)
Articolo 31 – Commodore 64 Vs. PC (2003)
Galactic Force Band – theme from 2001 (1978)
Peter Schilling – error in the system (1982)
Yellow Magic Orchestra – computer games (extended version 1978)
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – the future will be silent (2013)
Den Harrow – future brain (Hot Tracks Brainchild Mix, 1986)
Frank Cornelius – computer games (1984)
George Clinton – computer games (1982)
Thomas Leer – Mr. Nobody (1982)
Jamie Jupitor – computer power (1985)
Rockets – electric delight (remix 1996)
Patrick Cowley – tech-no-logical world (Hi NRG Dance Mix 1982)
Maggotron – computer pop (1984)
Os̩ Рcomputer funk (1983)
Kraftwerk – computer world part III (1981)
Gary Numan – metal (1979)
