Away from the Cloud, deep in the earth, the satellites can't reach us. We can be bugs against the hegemonic code, against the shine and slip of a sterile internet. Our handmade digital creations become celebrations of the Small, that which digital cultures theorist Kate O’Riordan argues can 'resist the logic of big archives and big institutions and instead value personal experiences'.3

Interactive fiction (also known as IF) provides a blueprint for a more local, DIY internet; one that takes joy in creating rather than consuming. Interactive fiction crawls under the topsoil of traditional publishing and revels in the unseen, the unexplored, the un-printable. There is a whole fungal network of artists on the underside of the internet, feeding off each others' creativity, passing around digital fiction like zines.