Greenscreen internet history explainer seriesfrom @internet.anthropology

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Forget the Pyramids and the Great Wall Of China. What are the seven wonders of cyberspace? What are the places that are must see marvels of human craftsmanship and culture that you can only see in digital worlds? This is Internet Anthropology and in this video series I'm crowdsourcing the seven wonders of cyberspace. I need all the Minecraft, VRChat, Internet forum people to the front. We're making a tourist guide for the cybernetic age, the seven digital landmarks worth traveling to in cyberspace. So I have two entries on this list and I'm gonna explain them to you and then you're gonna comment what else goes on here. Number one, the uncensored library in Minecraft. This digital wonder is a library meant to combat censorship in journalism. It was created by the organization Reporters Without Borders and the Minecraft design collective Blockworks. Because in many countries where information is restricted through blocked websites, censored social media or controlled media landscapes, Minecraft remains accessible. So the library becomes a kind of workaround for people to access banned articles and other informational materials. The library focuses on specific countries like Mexico, Russia, and Saudi Arabia among others. Each country having its own wing containing several banned or censored articles presented as in game books in both English and their original language. It also features memorials to journalists who have been silenced. The library was created with a staggering 12,500,000 Minecraft blocks. It involved 24 builders from 16 countries who collaborated over roughly two hundred and fifty tier, so essentially three months. And I think it is really interesting to talk about this digital wonder through the lens of labor power in the same way that we would talk about the Pyramids or the Great Wall Of China. So you're starting to get the vibe here of what makes something a digital wonder of cyberspace. There's the human labor feat, there's the design architecture element, there's cultural importance, and there's reasonable inference that someone would want to actually travel there and explore it for themselves. In the next part we'll talk about the second wonder of cyberspace that I found better I want you to comment what else belongs on this list.