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The Internet Is an Ocean

104 statements
19 feature instances
16 referencing feature instances

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The Internet Is an Ocean	comment	When imagining what the Internet might look like if one were to be sucked inside a computer, a big sprawling ocean is one of the more intuitive possibilities. After all, we already use a lot of language related to the sea to describe using the web: surfing, navigating, the surface web and The Deep Web, piracy... So, it seems logical to take advantage of that imagery when going for a physical representation of the Internet. Sub-Trope of Cyberspace. Compare The Sky Is an Ocean, Space Is an Ocean and Sand Is Water.
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The Internet Is an Ocean / int_139a7ed9	comment	A.I. Love You: Cyberspace is depicted as an ocean filled with fish who represent programs. The fish species depends on the nature of the program. It's also stated that there are as many different cyberspace oceans as there are digital networks.
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The Internet Is an Ocean / int_17321b2d	comment	BoxxyQuest: The Shifted Spires: A fisherman in the port of Twitter, mentions that there are 32 seas.
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The Internet Is an Ocean / int_1bbdc803	comment	Ghost in the Shell: Arise:' Motoko performs a brain dive (basically she's hosting a private chatroom) which depicts her as a mermaid underwater.
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The Internet Is an Ocean / int_1ceecb07	comment	Dennou Boukenki Webdiver: Implied, with the term Web Divers, who upload their consciousness into a shared network; a cyber park called Magical Gate; to play with one another. The opening animation does feature the protagonist literally diving into a sea to symbolize this.
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The Internet Is an Ocean / int_39deed0c	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS: VRAINS (standing for Virtual Reality Artificial Intelligence Network System) is occasionally hit with "Data Storms", which usually manifest as gales or tornados. However, when they are particularly powerful, they manifest as tsunami waves. In addition, the digital city within VRAINS has a sewer system to recycle data, and that data behaves a lot like water — in fact, there are digital creatures swimming in there.
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The Internet Is an Ocean / int_6059314b	comment	xkcd has a (somewhat outdated: It's from mid-2010) "Map of the Internet" depicting it as an archipelago in this strip. The previous one from early 2007 also depicts as islands.
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The Internet Is an Ocean / int_6196490	comment	Ghost in the Shell: The process for searching the internet for specific information is called "Net diving". Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: The net itself is usually depicted as an empty void filled with information nodules, but Motoko's Chroma avatar's clothing floats around as if being dragged by water when she dives into network rooms. The first season's ending theme song "Lithium Flower" contextually refers to how amazing Motoko is at "surfing", a reference to her being a Super-Class-A hacker. Another song on the show's soundtrack, "Where Does This Ocean Go?" also poetically compares the internet to an ocean (while also talking about the mundane lives of random people as they interact in the real world). Ghost in the Shell: Arise:' Motoko performs a brain dive (basically she's hosting a private chatroom) which depicts her as a mermaid underwater.
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The Internet Is an Ocean / int_6a93bc16	comment	Shanghai.EXE: Genso Network: The Data Sea, a torrent of countless data whose raging currents will tear most Navis to bits, which is literally underlying the digital networks that Navis walk upon.
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The Internet Is an Ocean / int_8c08fe89	comment	The Boxxy Quest series takes place in a Cyberspace of the internet, which has seas separating landmasses: BoxxyQuest: The Shifted Spires: A fisherman in the port of Twitter, mentions that there are 32 seas. BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm: Referenced in multiple ways: Ships sail on "inter-server" waters between sites to take people between them. When on the ship, a Sailor says: Cornelia's ultimate attack, is "Digital Sea". A tidal wave that sweeps the field and hits all enemies.
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The Internet Is an Ocean / int_909ca4b1	comment	ReBoot: Played with in the forms of the Saucy Mare and Ray Tracer. The former is a(n ex)pirate ship run by the Crimson Binome, Captain Capacitor which sails across the Net trading with different systems. Equipped with the remains of Web Creatures as armor, the ship can also sail into the Web itself, which is portrayed as a much more intense maelstrom. Ray is a search engine that takes the form of a sprite on a surfboard who literally "surfs the web" while looking for interesting sights.
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The Internet Is an Ocean / int_9d3237c8	comment	Adam Ruins Everything: "Adam Ruins the Internet" depicts it this way. Adam takes his subject on a rowboat into a cyberspace ocean and literally "fishes" for people's information.
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The Internet Is an Ocean / int_b075a451	comment	In Fate/EXTRA, the dungeons within SE.RA.PH.'s cyberspace are depicted as an enormous ocean, with the actual traversable part being a transparent structure that offers a clear view of the seas beyond, complete with sunken structures and fish. Many of the enemy programs are also styled after fish.
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The Internet Is an Ocean / int_b2f87400	comment	Real Drive: The internet is known as the Metal, and its inner workings function a lot like an ocean. After waking up from a 50 year coma, former professional diver Masamichi Haru soon finds that his diving expertise will serve him well as a "virtual diver" to search the Metal.
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The Internet Is an Ocean / int_bcb32dc6	comment	The Matrix in Shadowrun is near constantly described as a sea or ocean. To the point that "Data Trails", 5th edition's Matrix specific sourcebook, opens with a short story about a pair of hackers infiltrating a server with an ocean theme. Also Played for Laughs by having Danielle de la Mar use it as a flowery metaphor.
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The Internet Is an Ocean / int_cae588dc	comment	Digimon Universe: App Monsters: While the Net Ocean has always been a location in the wider Digimon multiverse, it's most prominent in App Monsters, where it makes up the vast majority of the Internet. The Big Bad is even called Leviathan, after the Biblical sea serpent, and it lurks in the Dark Web in the depths of Net Ocean.
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The Internet Is an Ocean / int_d6c9c0a4	comment	Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: The net itself is usually depicted as an empty void filled with information nodules, but Motoko's Chroma avatar's clothing floats around as if being dragged by water when she dives into network rooms. The first season's ending theme song "Lithium Flower" contextually refers to how amazing Motoko is at "surfing", a reference to her being a Super-Class-A hacker. Another song on the show's soundtrack, "Where Does This Ocean Go?" also poetically compares the internet to an ocean (while also talking about the mundane lives of random people as they interact in the real world).
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The Internet Is an Ocean / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Negima! Magister Negi Magi's chapter 154, where Chisame enters cyberspace to fight Chachamaru, and it is represented as an ocean with fish as programs.
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The Internet Is an Ocean / int_f3cbb86a	comment	BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm: Referenced in multiple ways: Ships sail on "inter-server" waters between sites to take people between them. When on the ship, a Sailor says: Cornelia's ultimate attack, is "Digital Sea". A tidal wave that sweeps the field and hits all enemies.
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The Internet Is an Ocean / int_f724b70d	comment	Code Lyoko has the Digital Sea, which is how the Lyoko program portrays the Internet. The heroes use a submarine-like vehicle to travel through it. It cannot be swam in, though, since anything that falls into the water has its data scattered and it's nearly impossible to get it back.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

The Internet Is an Ocean	processingCategory2	The Internet
The Internet Is an Ocean	processingCategory2	Tropes at Sea
Dennou Boukenki Webdiver / int_f43ac6fa	type	The Internet Is an Ocean
Digimon Universe: App Monsters / int_f43ac6fa	type	The Internet Is an Ocean
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex / int_f43ac6fa	type	The Internet Is an Ocean
Real Drive / int_f43ac6fa	type	The Internet Is an Ocean
Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS / int_f43ac6fa	type	The Internet Is an Ocean
Running with Scissors (Music) / int_f43ac6fa	type	The Internet Is an Ocean
Adam Ruins Everything / int_f43ac6fa	type	The Internet Is an Ocean
Shadowrun (Tabletop Game) / int_f43ac6fa	type	The Internet Is an Ocean
Boxxy Quest (Video Game) / int_f43ac6fa	type	The Internet Is an Ocean
Fate/EXTRA (Video Game) / int_f43ac6fa	type	The Internet Is an Ocean
Shanghai.EXE: Genso Network (Video Game) / int_f43ac6fa	type	The Internet Is an Ocean
xkcd (Webcomic) / int_f43ac6fa	type	The Internet Is an Ocean
Code Lyoko / int_f43ac6fa	type	The Internet Is an Ocean
ReBoot / int_f43ac6fa	type	The Internet Is an Ocean

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