The Universal Page has, finally, put to rest the Utopian Dream of a
collectively-engaged, harmonious world united by the invisible impulses
of the Net. I am delivering my Eulogy to praise this noble effort, as
well as honor the past, that has brought to an end once and for all an
age of naive aspirations and fatal ideologies.

Natalie Bookchin and Alexei Shulgin, the co-creators behind the
Universal Page (http://www.universalpage.org/), devised the precise and
deadly Lethal Algorithm that dealt a quick death to the Utopian Dream of
the Net. Driven by overwhelming cynicism, a yearning for hope and
renewal, and a cool, detached need to topple teetering Theories, their
Special Script "scrawls and searches the entire Web," gathering in its
path the endless torrent of on-line rants, musings, pleas, and
declarations–thrashing and churning a once hopeful and misguided
idealism into a heap of meaningless ASCII. "Brx gbtfl rj