“The Folklore We Create” Post

In the year 2042, the world as we come to know of is filled with technology. So advance that everything was resourceful and did not need to rely on others to help. Internet is nothing, but a bunch of retro tech from years and years ago. Last time the internet was ever used was probably around 2022, about 20 years ago. The cause of this catastrophic event occurred due to the satellite not being able to hold on its own and crashed back into earth. Phones as we speak is also down, but luckily, we have back up sources to replace internet and phones to ease the human needs of internet on a daily basis. Businesses has upped their game and hold their business better than ever before, but to a certain extent, the internet is still needed. So I have decided to go set myself on a journey to find where the crash site was and see if I can revive the internet. For me, internet wasn’t much of a problem because I lived over half my life without internet. Seeing how much has changed over the past 20 years will be interesting, especially because within 20 years, technology has changed so much, even I have a hard time keeping up with technology updates every year or 2.

So I began my journey, I went down to where I pinpointed the location and there I found a spaceship looking thing. At first I thought it was a joke for a satellite to look like that, but then I realized that it’s retro tech and I’ve been living in the future looking back in time. I noticed a monitor on the satellite, but it was out. At least the monitor had a little plug that needs power source to recharge. Well I’ve got say, one thing hasn’t and it was the fact that the plugs are still the same. So I plugged it into one of my portable power generator (future tech) and I powered the monitor on. It said something like “January 1983”, I was wondering what that date was, and I found what was called “internet explorer”. I clicked onto the “internet explorer” icon (I know how to use a basic computer because I was born in that time) and thought to myself, “where would I be able to look up the date?”. So I noticed this colorful logo that says “google” and I had no clue what that was, but I clicked on it anyways. Later I found out through “Reliablesoft” that “google” was the most popular used search engine to look up random information or any question I encountered. Then I went back to “google” to look up the date that was given to me. According to “History”, the internet was created back then in 1983 by a man named “J.C.R Licklinder”, but did not get fully recognized until the 1990s.

Several months went by and I wanted to come back to that satellite. That’s when it hit me why the internet was so popular. The world is full of surprises and there’s unlimited amount of things a person can do when they’re not themselves online. Seeing all these modern technology, I think not all are as good or advance as the old technology. So I went and talk to one of the modern technology company to remake computers and launch a new internet satellite where people can see the joy of what people did 20 years ago (by the time this post is posted, the internet is back up and running again, internet is like a leech, “once clings on, never lets go”, then again I can say that about humans more than the internet).

 

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