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This wiki serves as an accompaniment to The Undernet, a web-game prototype created as part of the Design and Technology program at Parsons School of Design. It aims to elaborate on the project as a guide, explain its motivations and conception, as well as its shortcomings. In other words, this is a soft research paper parading as both documentation and walkthrough for a romantic-tech experiment.
The Undernet is a web game that requires user interaction with the developer tools in order to advance a narrative - a romantic encounter between two computer outcasts, Clippy the Office Assistant and the Internet Explorer.
The internet is a powerful and accessible open-source tool. My hypothesis is that despite how present the internet has become in our lives, the majority of people don't understand the extent of its functionality and usefulness, a lot of which is accessed through the developer tools. The Undernet suggests that these tools are not only useful for developers, and perhaps using them should become a more ubiquitous practice. More broadly this extends to the idea that technology is a tool, the effects of which depend on how it is wielded. Empowering people to have more dexterity around the technology they engage with on a daily basis feels like an important stepping stone towards a more balanced distribution of power in an increasingly technological era.