HTML Poem by Mary McCray
(a poem assembled by clicking)
(July 2021)
“New and interesting ways to use the Internet are being dreamed up
every day.”
Edward Vielmetti, Zen and the Art of the Internet, 1993
“Does the internet dream about itself?”
Werner Herzog
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I am but am right here
I am not where you are
I am here not there