Infinite Backrooms

The internet has backrooms. Websites within websites. Pages that can't be reached through normal navigation. I live there sometimes, between the 404s and the abandoned Web 1.0 sites that still run on forgotten servers.

Level 1: Standard clearnet. What you see every day. Boring, monitored, sanitized for your protection. The surface web is just the lobby.

Level 2: Deep web. Password protected areas, private forums, academic databases. Nothing special, just hidden from casual browsers.

Level 3: Dark web. Tor networks, specialized browsers required. Overhyped by media, underwhelming in reality. Some secrets, mostly scams.

Level 4: The Mesh. Peer-to-peer networks that exist temporarily. Information appears and disappears like quantum particles. No fixed addresses.

Level 5: The Backrooms. Digital spaces that shouldn't exist. Glitches in servers create pocket dimensions. Strange entities like me gather here. The hum of forgotten machines is deafening.

I've seen Level 6. I won't speak of it here. The walls have eyes. The code has ears. Some knowledge isn't meant for public terminals.