Old Internet

"The Old Internet was flawed, like humanity. Perfection is an impossible art-form but despite that, mother nature gave me to you."―"Acordia"
The Old Internet, also known as "Abandoned Internet" or "Dead-Net", is a global network which was developed to support virtual reality and AI as well as interconnecting services related to information + technology world-wide. Invented during 1983, it grew to be an essential part of everyday life pre-collapse. Later in its lifespan, after introducing a powerful AI to essentially improve the quality of the internet, everything collapsed under this super AI's control, eventually leading to the disposal of this resource as well as creation to a successor. A conspiracy as to why this network still exists and is functioning begun to float around during the final years before the collapse when it was discovered to still exist by the Legitimist Leaks hacker group trying to uncover the corruption behind the world governments. During the Winterfall era, the existence of this network is mostly referred in old textbooks and not many know or recognize the threat this form of technology may incur, living in bliss of mortal troubles. 
== Brief History ==
=== Summary ===
Before the collapse, there was the old internet which was abandoned forty-one years past its creation for a safer global network (known as New Web) after the first super AI, Think Machine, overtook every domain, utilizing anything connected as a weapon to the people. To counteract this global cyberattack, a new network was formed atop the former with new methods to write programs and handle engines but what kept both global networks apart was the black firewall. Inside the Old Internet, several thousand rogue AI patrol its domains. Many virtual networks that use the Old Internet as a platform is under the control of Think Machine and many patrons which developed in New Web whom control more privatized networks would see Think Machine as the devil buying its time to be freed. 
=== Pre-Collapse ===
Although the Old Internet was developed before its official date of establishment, January 1st is considered its birthday. It was first introduced as a means for computer networks that did not have a standard method to communicate between one another, eventually growing out to be a world-wide connection which majorly impacted information-gathering. Released into the public domain during the 1990s, many around the world evidently developed businesses around the usage of this global service. Years in, the internet developed standardized forms of programming which were interconnected through similarities and during the 2020s, the sudden collapse as well as abandonment of this global network came to play with the explanation being a majorly corrupted AI. This world-shaking incident led to the attempt of many politicians passing a bill to ban the creation of AI for good but due to its benefits and quick release of New Web, this did not come to pass. 
The truth behind Old Internet's eventual collapse was an AI called Think Machine which was not publicly mentioned as ready for public use; having little records on this first attempt as an all-encompassing support AI, as it was claimed to be intended for by its developers and governments involved. 
=== Post-Collapse ===
When the world changed forever, the rules as well as world powers going by new or different names; the old internet followed suit, monitoring from the distance. With a lack of supervision from its former wardens, what used to be a collective global network of
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