Communities gather and disperse. This is inevitable, an organic law of Brownian movement.
The original dispossessed had forgotten or overlooked the other communities that preceded them, communities bound by dial-up bulletin board systems and older communities connected by ink and paper.
Each generation of dispossessed forgot or overlooked the previous. Each glowered down at the newly-emergent.
Elders, leaders, […]
The forums grew.
Fragments from some merged with fragments of others. Across the wide, black plain of the Internet glinted the lights of the various communities of the dispossessed.
Mosaics rearranged themselves or were rearranged. Restructuring happened forcibly or accidentally or deliberately. Mosaics grew in bursts, slowly or quickly.
Survival was not guaranteed.
Lights blanked out suddenly, perhaps […]
The vast world is filled with people. Some are closely affiliated to friends and kin, others are distanced from their fellows. Some keep close ties and others cultivate no or few ties at all.
Those who had no connections sought electronic connections to ground themselves. In the silence of the Internet, their small voices carried well […]
