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As of the conception of this piece, the internet is only 31 years old. At only 3 decades of age, the internet is our holy grail of communication, entertainment, and utility. But the streamlined world-wide-web that we know today has developed from what was once a less sophisticated hodge-podge of sites. Before we knew it, online culture became second nature and the web interwoven into our lives. But like a weird childhood friend, the aspects that make the internet the cesspool of human degeneracy we have known it to be has maintained its perverse quality.

“Title” lays out the evolution and consistencies of the internet experience to highlight how much dark internet culture has worked into every one of our experiences, for better or worse. Individuals have unique relationships with the online world, and living through a virtual tunnel may make it seem that our internet subcultures are singular to ourselves, but many of those ugly facets are actually the common experience. By collecting and assembling these pieces of history from the past 30 years, we may see the foundational skeleton of shock value and human-made cyber malfeasances that people today and back then find familiar. And despite the vulgarity, we have or will somehow become nostalgic for it.