The late 20th century saw the advent of the internet as a modern technological marvel that radically changed how the world operated. People developed the ability to communicate in profound and highly capacitative ways wherein the human culture grew in kind along analogous axes of advancement and progress. Right as the world was moving in this profoundly, powerful direction, though, the great and immense amount of good that could be done, and was being done, was metted with a correlatory bad. In the same way that people could become sick, computers developed patterns of behavior that modeled the dynamic ailment of disease in biology. Though, of course, computers could not actually become 'sick' in a 'runny nose' sense, they began to develop inconsistencies that resulted from human-technology relations. The medical, and general, health of whole communities gradually began to reflect how it is that their respective internet cultures were conducted in kind. Naturally intrinsic human behaviors founded in evolutionary biology began to make their way into online forums, onto websites, and across the various data networks that were becoming increasingly more available to the world. One of the most prolific and devastating viruses that came about during this time was the Trojan Virus. It, in essence, was a virus that could connect streams of information or load unwanted data onto hard drives, networks, databases, et cetera to such a degree that the computerized infection would leave unwanted files and activity on whole frames of intercommunicative design. The Trojan virus at the turn of the 21st century was a grim prediction of how technology is beautiful but only to the degree that humanity is able to respect it. How it is that we, as people, treat ourselves will be how we grow from what has been not only made by us but also given from shared knowledge and communal understanding. The Trojan virus and all technology relations are an example of that, and the modern day is an excellent lesson.
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