# a tall simple near future tale of common digital folklore legend imaginary alternative internet pastime 'republic of bob' does not exist may 2025 an indie researcher of bizarre emergent online phenomena releases a groundbreaking report on ir recent subcultural discovery - 'a strange imaginary people pretend to play' while unknown to the general public 'republic of bob' became immensely popular with regular netizens and spawned an complex art scene overnight before mysteriously disappearing back into the matrix one general premise as follows 'searching for a better you? need a stranger digital realty? experience luxury imaginary alternative internet-as-pastime 'republic of bob' today! for just 1.5 minutes simply pretend to re-imagine the entire realtime web as an ancient mythic virtual desert landscape set in a beautifully dark 80's retrofuture era of high adventure and 'big science' a new social relationship and small informal act of open source shared artistic universe worldbuilding consider roleplaying '#rob' and thereby create its vivid dimension together..' such a imaginary internet and experimental community art project releases / escapes to the 'public domain by-default': no license zero copyright maximum rnd: please kopimi! hastag antiwork / noweb3 // republic of bob