Future Exchange - Internet Mythology Internet Mythology People are always interested in how things started and there's no better place to go for a bit a navel gazing than the internet.
People are always interested in how things started.
And there's no better place to go for a bit a navel gazing than the internet. All things that are sort of important in human culture, sort of generate a desire for the people who are using them or involved in them to have some sense of where they started, to have a sort of historical reference point, or some understanding of how this came to be and in that sense the internet has an origin myth. So essentially a group of pot-smoking Californian hippies in their garages, designing computer games, had a bit of spare time, stole the internet from the military and set it free. That's definitely the myth, and it's definitely not true. But of course the point is, it doesn't matter that it's not true.