The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet

the most mysterious song on the internet is a song mostly referred to people as the following: like the wind, blind the wind (you know i wonder how people get stuff like this name), check it in/out, and take it in/out. likely speculated to be made in the 1980's. it's said that it was recorded from a NDR broadcast (norddeutscher rundfunk) there's more information on wikipedia.

person 1: man how did the most mysterious song on the internet even get lost?

person 2: i don't know man

by rk092 December 25, 2023

Social Sciences Applied to the Internet

A broader field extending social science methods to the entire internet ecosystem—infrastructure, governance, political economy, and culture. It examines how internet architecture (protocols, data centers, fiber optics) embodies political values, how governance regimes (ICANN, national regulations) shape freedom, and how economic models (surveillance capitalism, gig platforms) reorganize labor and value. It treats the internet not as a neutral network but as a contested social space where power, resistance, and inequality are enacted.

Example: “His work on social sciences applied to the internet traced how the shift from net neutrality to privatized data flows concentrated economic power in a handful of platform companies, reshaping global digital rights.”

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal March 24, 2026

Human Sciences Applied to the Internet

The application of humanities disciplines to the internet as a cultural and historical artifact. It examines the internet’s intellectual genealogy (from military research to counterculture to commercial sphere), its representation in literature and art, its impact on concepts of authorship and intellectual property, and the ethical frameworks emerging from networked life. It treats the internet as a text, a set of practices, and a space for meaning-making that requires interpretation, not just measurement.

*Example: “Her dissertation used human sciences applied to the internet to analyze how early internet utopianism—once celebrated as liberatory—became the ideological foundation for surveillance capitalism, showing the continuity between 1990s rhetoric and present-day platform power.”*

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal March 24, 2026

Cognitive Sciences Applied to the Internet

A field that studies how human cognition interacts with the internet’s technical features: hyperlinks, search engines, multitasking environments, algorithmic recommendations. It investigates how the internet changes the way we think—distributed cognition, the Google effect on memory, the impact of constant interruptions on sustained attention, and the cognitive cost of navigating digital interfaces. It provides evidence for how the internet reshapes mental habits, both enabling and constraining thought.

Example: “Cognitive sciences applied to the internet revealed that relying on search engines changes how we remember: we recall where to find information rather than the information itself, outsourcing memory to the network.”

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal March 24, 2026

Social Sciences of the Internet

A broad field that applies social science disciplines to the internet as a whole—its infrastructure, governance, political economy, and cultural practices. It examines internet architecture (protocols, data centers, fiber optics) as social artifacts, the role of standards bodies and regulation, the emergence of online communities, and the global digital divide. It also studies phenomena like surveillance capitalism, platform monopolies, digital labor, and internet activism. The social sciences of the internet treat the network not as a neutral tool but as a contested terrain shaped by power, capital, and collective action.

Example: “Her social sciences of the internet research revealed that the ‘neutral’ design of TCP/IP actually embedded assumptions about trust and openness that later enabled surveillance and centralized control—choices that could have been made differently.”

Sociology of the Internet

A subfield focusing on the social structures, interactions, and inequalities that emerge from and shape internet use. It draws on classic sociological concepts—social networks, stratification, institutions, collective behavior—to analyze online phenomena like digital divides, algorithmic sorting, online communities, and the transformation of public spheres. The sociology of the internet also examines how offline hierarchies (race, class, gender, nation) are mapped onto digital spaces, and how users resist or subvert those hierarchies through collective action.

Example: “His sociology of the internet study showed that moderation practices in large Discord servers often reproduced racialized policing—with users of color disproportionately banned for ‘tone’ violations while white users received warnings.”

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal April 16, 2026

Stories from the Internet

A 40 year old thin skinned incel whose whole life has been geared towards his brief moment in the sun, where he held 5 online relationships at once, a world which came crashing down in August 2022. Passionate about Law of Attraction, Synchronicity, Manifestation, Edging and Semen Retention. Eager user of gaslighting, doxxing, threatening legal action, targeting women whose mental health impacts their ability to defend themselves, and general dickheadery.

Did you hear about Stories from the Internet? He has been online dating 5 girls at once and got found out. Now his channel is finished. What an incel.

by Stories from the incelnet September 25, 2022

I'll see you on the internet

Another way of saying "I'll see you later" this term transforms the physical presence of someone and assumes that the next interaction with the other person will be virtual.

Person 1: It was great talking with you but I have to run to a meeting in downtown.
Person 2: No worries, I'll see you on the internet.

by AFallet1 October 27, 2022