CitiNet

In the wake of the DataKrash, any network of size became unusable. The only ones that held together covered nothing bigger than a building and/or were highly secure and segmented corporate architectures. Ziggurat, a Night City-based corporation changed the way regular people could interact with networks again. The CitiNet was designed to be limited. It had a message service, the ability to provide 2D interlinked information pages, and a few other things. But it was all restricted to a single city and it wouldn't accept any external software to run. It held back transfer speeds to prevent things like R.A.B.I.D.S from spreading.

CitiNets were accessed primarily by Ziggurat-owned public data terminals, not on personal devices. A user could login on any of these dataterms in order to get their messages, or visit most of the pages on the net without logging in. These capabilities were nothing compared to what could be done on the old NET, but it was a big step up from what else was available. The connections that is now called the "new NET" is mostly built on the CitiNet infrastructure, reinforced by the Blackwall and patrolled by NetWatch.

Developed by

Ziggurat