Link

Link is a boy from Hyrule who Links are brain implant devices that let users interface with the net. Links can broadcast a low energy signal or tap into the global powered internet. They can be used to communicate, immerse ones self in cyberspace, or simple look up materials and use online programming. They normally supply the date and time to users.
The link itself appears as an antenna, usually behind the left ear of the user. The end of the antenna can be pulled out to hardwire into interfaces or other links. Inside the brain, a network of wiring extends through the cortex to read and write information.
Link signals are generally constant to the average individual. Link signs appear on most walls, things dump information into your head when you wonder about them, and so on.
Links are installed with a branching wetware system that’s implanted behind the ear. The tendrils are self guiding and find the correct brain structures then grow into them, and continue to grow as the brain develops. It’s usually done around age 3 when pre-school begins.
Links translate the binary of cyberspace into brain code so it gets delivered by wetware into the cortices responsible for sight and hearing, or into the brain’s holonomic memory so that one can “know” things from it. 
As such, when someone contacts an individual by link, they hear them exactly the same way they hear their own inner monologue, and they can look up words to know them without resorting to text iterations of the words. They just wonder into their link what a word means and then they know it. 
The brain hardware, or wetware, that stems from the link is a series of wires that slip into critical nuclei (as in CNS ganglions, not cell nuclei) in the brain. If one got their link ripped out it would look like a bunch of little gold wires coming out of the antenna. These work entirely on synaptic impulse. When one sees an avatar get brain code ripped out online, that means the synaptic impulses are getting translated into binary and represented as random looking code. Their brain gets sucked part-way into the net and erased from the inside out.
See also:
Partitioned Memory
Category:Technology