Internet of the Apes

"I just realized that I have my phone in the pocket. Maybe I should take a picture... actually, nevermind I'm stuck in here forever anyway. Speaking of the phone, do you have internet in this era?"

"Yes. You can use 78G to 98G."

"I don't know what those means. What is the most popular social media or website right now?"

"There is a social media website called Yumania and Yublo-up. Though they are not the most popular, they have the most common language as your culture. Since you wouldn't be able to download or search them up on your phone since Google no longer exist. I'll put them in yours..."

With another futuristic trickery, Jetson projected a ray into Steven's mobile. The said two apps popped up on the screen.

"Ok, let see the latest news."

"I mean... you could just ask me..."

"Yeah yeah... let see... Ok, a chimp is selling me some clothes on the ad. And there are some post about cute baby gorillas on the homepage. Ok... and then another post about a riot between two ape tribes."

"Steven scrolls down a bit more."

"This is the video about an orangutan being proud of their country. He is doing a tour around the locals."

"More like propaganda..."

"Sounds familiar but who cares... This is also another chimp video. This is a post about bonobos. This is a link to a game about collecting bananas. Ok! I think apes are getting trendy here. Let just use the search engine to filter them out."

He clicked on the search engine and typed news. But the news only show about apes. He then search for cooking recipe and once again, apes cooking channels. He specifically typed without ape and all he see were the videos of anti-racism commentaries... about apes.

"What is going on! Did you just gave me website exclusive to apes? Come on, I want to see some other things that are not apes. Just give me a browser that does that..."

"Sure there is a popular one like Ohohahah.com."

"Ohohahah? That sound like a sound of monkey."

"Exactly..."

"You mean that website was also dominated by apes?"

"Yes. And in fact, no one apart from apes from this era use internet."

"How did that happened..?"

"Have you heard of the dead internet theory."

"Yes."

"Basically, the internet became empty. So empty that not even spam bots came. After the 345th century, the internet tech companies became obsolete. One after another, they bankrupted. Some owners didn't want to let go so they kept them running until only a single determined corporation left. I wouldn't even call it a corporation... Just an obsessed guy stuck in the small internet cafe. His name was Binar.

Binar was unlucky enough to be borned in the dead of internet age where everyone can access full world wide informations through upgraded Babel Lite using electromagnetic telepathy. His father, grandfather, great grandfather and so on were generation of old school WWW enthusiasts and so is he. He wanted to revive it. But he didn't know how. Not to mention that he was broke from constantly spending his savings on this hopeless dream.

At last, He decided to unplug the last piece of the information era. Just as before he reached for it, he received an email. It wasn't any particular email but that moment changed everything. No one aside from him was on the internet so the email was unexpected. He checked on it to see what was written. It said 'Hello world'. The user name was 'Apeman89'.

Then another notification dinged. Then another. Then another. Then another... All with names relating to primates. The apes evolved just in time before the dead of internet. 347th century, the rise of the internet of the apes."