[UA] Internets Otherspace

[Peter Kisner]

On 9/2/07, David Tormsen <tormsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Could run it as a growing Otherspace perhaps, which is inhabited
> largely by the avatars of internet users. Events online are echoed by
> events in the online universe.
>
> It is believed that certain public displays of suicide on the internet
> can lead to a person's demon being trapped in the Otherspace, which
> might be an unforeseen side effect or a deliberate objective.
>
> I'm getting a vision of something akin to Lovecraft's Dreamlands
> combined with ReBoot combined with Encyclopaedia Dramatica. Would be a
> fearful world indeed.

As far as animation goes "The Wired" of Lain seems a little closer to me.

Or the premise behind .hack//SIGN.  Though the series drags a bit the
themes of physical death vs. virtual immortality and hidden
otherspaces within a virtual world are both there.