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Internet Incorporated

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17 feature instances
9 referencing feature instances

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Internet Incorporated	label	Internet Incorporated
Internet Incorporated	page	InternetIncorporated
Internet Incorporated	comment	In Real Life, the Internet is a network of networks. While a few aspects of it are centralized (for instance, the allocation of blocks of IP addresses, the top-level parts of the DNS, and the allocation of Autonomous System numbersnote all of which admittedly the internet as it is known today could not operate without, but it's still a far cry from this trope), it mostly works in a decentralized fashion, where each system operates independently and their interconnections are based on bilateral agreements and common protocols. There is no central company, organization, or government agency which controls or operates the Internet as a whole. In fiction, it does not have to work that way. Instead of the decentralized Internet we are used to, the network all the characters interact with is owned and/or controlled by a single organization. This organization can be a powerful antagonist if the protagonists are hackers or are trying to uncover some secret it wants to keep hidden. Often, the Internet Incorporated is the creator of the Applied Phlebotinum which powers the Cyberspace the characters use — or is the one who stole it from its creators. Note that this isn't technically impossible for fiction set in an alternate universe, but in Real Life, it's not true. Although, the increasing corporate consolidation of Internet services and infrastructure during The New '10s and beyond have made this closer to being Truth in Television.
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Internet Incorporated	isPartOf	DBTropes
Internet Incorporated / int_21938c93	type	Internet Incorporated
Internet Incorporated / int_21938c93	comment	Avengers: Age of Ultron: To track down Ultron, Tony Stark visits The Internet in Oslo, Norway, which is apparently a huge futuristic-looking server room where all data packages in the world are said to go through. While there, he finds the remains of J.A.R.V.I.S.
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Internet Incorporated / int_261ffdc	type	Internet Incorporated
Internet Incorporated / int_261ffdc	comment	In Sarah Zero, the internet has been deleted and replaced by the corporation-controlled Contranet.
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Sarah Zero (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Internet Incorporated / int_261ffdc
Internet Incorporated / int_306233e6	type	Internet Incorporated
Internet Incorporated / int_306233e6	comment	Summer Wars: Oz servers connect everyone and everything as long as it is connected to the internet; Everything is connected to the internet.
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Internet Incorporated / int_3eacc2fd	type	Internet Incorporated
Internet Incorporated / int_3eacc2fd	comment	In Corner Gas Oscar was tricked into believing that a central authority had kicked him off the Internet.
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Internet Incorporated / int_4064f208	type	Internet Incorporated
Internet Incorporated / int_4064f208	comment	Op Net from the Aberrant Tabletop RPG is the system that essentially replaced the internet (due to better Applied Phlebotinum) and requires its users to be licensed.
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Aberrant (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Internet Incorporated / int_4064f208
Internet Incorporated / int_453a04b0	type	Internet Incorporated
Internet Incorporated / int_453a04b0	comment	The Fairly Oddparents once had Timmy give a Hurricane of Excuses for how he got cool-looking clothes by saying first the Internet, then inheritance, and finally going with "I inherited the Internet!" It's shown in a later episode (told from Chester and AJ's point of view) that neither one of them believes it, and AJ even explains to Chester that the Internet can't be owned by one person. He should know. He's tried.
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The Fairly OddParents!	hasFeature	Internet Incorporated / int_453a04b0
Internet Incorporated / int_60570997	type	Internet Incorporated
Internet Incorporated / int_60570997	comment	It's mentioned in S.S.D.D. that Maytec runs a much, much, more secure alternative to the internet, which has become the domain of the Anarchists and is largely infested by the Oracle. Yet, despite being illegal to access in many countries still remains popular since you can't get free porn or bootlegged videos off the corporate network.
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Internet Incorporated / int_699dbb95	type	Internet Incorporated
Internet Incorporated / int_699dbb95	comment	In Door Monster, Kyle is crawling through the vents at Youtube when he runs into a wall telling him that the content is blocked in his country. He immediately objects that he lives in America, they own the internet! Rachel points out that things don't really work like that.
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Internet Incorporated / int_8a39c411	type	Internet Incorporated
Internet Incorporated / int_8a39c411	comment	The World Web from the Hyperion Cantos is run by the AIs. They have some legitimate claim to this since it happens to be their home.
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Internet Incorporated / int_95226eb6	type	Internet Incorporated
Internet Incorporated / int_95226eb6	comment	Cyberpunk 2020: Internet Phone Corporation. ("These guys don't use the Net. They own the Net." With an elaboration that one of the most powerful paramilitary security corporations around still pays its bills to Internet on time. "You don't even want to guess what Internet can throw at you. It even scares Saburo Arasaka.")
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Cyberpunk (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Internet Incorporated / int_95226eb6
Internet Incorporated / int_ac484a35	type	Internet Incorporated
Internet Incorporated / int_ac484a35	comment	Den-noh Coil: Megamass owns the Augmented Reality system overlying the town of Daikoku. This is justified since it's a local system restricted to that town only, with the company having chosen (and presumably been permitted to) use the town as a prototype testing ground: They control The Metaverse, but not all the information said Metaverse connects to.
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Internet Incorporated / int_b6b24d18	type	Internet Incorporated
Internet Incorporated / int_b6b24d18	comment	Mocked on The IT Crowd, where the geeks play a prank on their boss by convincing her that "the internet" is a small Black Box with a blinking red light on the top. It's usually kept in Big Ben and presided over by "The Elders of the Internet". And then the box gets broken...
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Internet Incorporated / int_c1e7f8f9	type	Internet Incorporated
Internet Incorporated / int_c1e7f8f9	comment	Implied in How It Ends, where a natural(-ish?) disaster that strikes California manages to knock out telecommunications across the entirety of the United States.
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Internet Incorporated / int_c43df4d8	type	Internet Incorporated
Internet Incorporated / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: "Dalek"'s Henry van Statten claimed to own the internet. He was probably talking through his hat, though.
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Doctor Who	hasFeature	Internet Incorporated / int_c43df4d8
Internet Incorporated / int_c72021c5	type	Internet Incorporated
Internet Incorporated / int_c72021c5	comment	In Deus Ex, it's revealed that the Ancient Conspiracy made a 'bottleneck' in the internet and all digital communications called the Aquinas Hub: All information that flows on internet, phone lines, satellites, anything digital, passes through that hub and can be filtered and monitored by whoever's in control of it. The end of the game is devoted to preventing the Big Bad from joining with an AI that has been granted control over this system, which would effectively make him God of the Internet.
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Internet Incorporated / int_d1143996	type	Internet Incorporated
Internet Incorporated / int_d1143996	comment	Eddsworld: The main characters try to earn some money by posting a video of Matt being crushed by a vending machine (It Makes Sense in Context). After watching the video, the CEO of the internet believes this is the most important discovery since air and rushes to inform the internet... and trips over the cable, turning the whole web off.
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Internet Incorporated / int_d9c602eb	type	Internet Incorporated
Internet Incorporated / int_d9c602eb	comment	In the South Park universe, the Internet is a giant Linksys router in a bunker somewhere. No one even knows how it works, so when the Internet goes down they're forced to try increasingly desperate methods ("Try communicating with it musically!"). The solution, of course, is to turn it off and on again.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Internet Incorporated	processingCategory2	The Internet
Avengers: Age of Ultron / int_ac38d6ca	type	Internet Incorporated
How It Ends / int_ac38d6ca	type	Internet Incorporated
.hack (Franchise) / int_ac38d6ca	type	Internet Incorporated
Aberrant (Tabletop Game) / int_ac38d6ca	type	Internet Incorporated
Broken Reality (Video Game) / int_ac38d6ca	type	Internet Incorporated
The Secret World (Video Game) / int_ac38d6ca	type	Internet Incorporated
Eddsworld (Web Animation) / int_ac38d6ca	type	Internet Incorporated
Summer Wars / int_ac38d6ca	type	Internet Incorporated

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