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title = "The Biggest Intranet"
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*First heard on the net, 2020. Brought to the bonfire in Orléans in 2024.*

In 2003 in ████, kids who wanted to play the strategy game Starcraft started to pull very long LAN cables between their homes. To pass the cables, they were using the municipal electric cable infrastructure. ███████ ███ ████ ████████ ███████████ ████ ███ ██████ ████████████ ██████ were the first to oppose these kids creating their big intranet, because they found themselves exposed. When the police came to shut down the intranet, they also discovered taps that stole electricity.

By 2019, more than 30,000 people in ██████ were connected through the intranet, which we call Street Net or SNET. As the network grew bigger, the government decided to intervene and required networks to have an administrator who set and enforced the rules and regulations. The first rule was never talk about politics.... and then don't talk about the religion, don't put up pornographic material, don't do business, don't connect to the internet. This was really an intranet, the biggest intranet in the world without access to the internet.

The grassroots network that was created by the people was eventually kidnapped by the government and transformed into an official institution called the “██████ ████ ██ ███████████”, which motivated many people to leave the network. The intranet put in question the practice of the revolution, as the kids were doing something that ███ ██████████ ███ ████████ ██ ██ █████ — creating something based on collective resources, but the government didn't like it as the kids were hacking and cracking the cultural politics ██ ███ ██████.