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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

The Dead Internet Theory

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.310.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

The internet is amazing, terrifying, hilarious and, as you read this, still evolving today. We genuinely don't know if humans are ready for it. Tonight's episode examines a troubling accusation -- what if the internet today has already moved past humanity? What if the internet you encounter is now populated by not humans but bots? This is the Dead Internet Theory. Tonight, Ben, Matt and Noel dive into to see how much of this strange conspiracy may be true.

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0:00.0

From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies history is riddled with unexplained events.

0:07.0

You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.

0:12.0

A production of I-Heart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. My name is Noel. They call me Ben. We're

0:29.7

joined as always with our super producer Paul Mission Control Techins.

0:34.0

Most importantly, you are you, you are here, and that makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.

0:40.0

Big, big thanks to the internet for making our show possible.

0:44.3

Oh, the internet.

0:45.9

You love it, you hate it.

0:47.8

You can't really escape it.

0:50.2

Ben, you pointed out that we're all kind of children of the internet in that we came up during the earliest of internets.

0:57.0

I don't know about you guys.

0:58.0

Did you guys have like rich friends with the doctor parents who had like prodigy and the earliest versions of the

1:05.0

internet like when it was still kind of a modem yeah exactly

1:09.1

certainly a flex at the time I didn't get a proper internet connection until the early you know

1:14.9

aim day is like a America online which is probably in like maybe 1993 is I love that I love to like hey I need another CD I'm running out of internet.

1:26.0

Right. Yeah I remember I remember hell back when it was floppies they would send in the mail.

1:31.3

Mm-hmm we, as we're mentioning here, we are some of the folks who lived through the great divide, right?

1:40.0

The rise of the internet, and we existed pre-

1:44.2

internet. So like many of us listening tonight,

1:47.0

we have witnessed amazing fundamental changes in the world.

1:51.1

And as we record this evening, you can in theory contact anyone across the planet

1:56.0

within the space of seconds it's amazing to technology that never existed before we still

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