The year was 1999, and the future seemed alive with possibilities. The world wide web was connecting the planet, and after work or school we would race home to talk to new people in chat rooms, on message boards, or via instant messenger. Weird ideas were all over the place, from TimeCube to The Matrix. And then something happened… a sickness appeared as supra-corporate mega-entities took hold of the developing web and destroyed it.

No, this isn’t a page about Extra-Terrestrial Intelligences, although those are cool too.