CYBERSPACE Download

A deck for Windows · Preview 0.3

Jack into your own machine.

Cyberspace renders your real computing world (every connection, program, port, device and file) as William Gibson's matrix, live, and lets you operate it. Every light is real data.

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Live: 176,444 routed networks, each at its real place. IP geolocation by DB-IP

A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.

William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984)

Forty-two years later, here it is: built from your own machine's data.

01 The matrix

Your machine, and everything it talks to.

Programs, ports, connections, local devices and the organizations at the other end, each where it really is, all of it live. Fly through it, punch to anything, select it for its readout. Hover a number to read the picture.

The deck's home sector: a crystal spire in a wireframe ICE shell, ringed by small towers for running programs and the glowing devices of a local network, with lines of light rising toward a violet ISP tower and the galaxy of networks along the horizon.
Home sector, sprawl lensThe deck on a demo machine in Bonn

  1. 1The galaxy

    Every routed network on Earth, 176,444 places and 3.1 billion addresses, as light at its real location. Continents emerge from the data alone.

  2. 2Your home construct

    A crystal spire where you are, inside its ICE shell: your firewall. The marks on the shell are your listening ports, colored by how exposed each one really is.

  3. 3The ring city

    Every running program, around home. Height is memory and edge glow is CPU; the ones talking to the network wear their links.

  4. 4Corporate constructs

    The organizations your machine talks to, standing at their real places. Silhouette says what kind, footprint is address space, lit floors are live traffic.

  5. 5Lines of light

    Live connections, from the program that owns each one to the construct it reaches. Pulses are real bytes. Cool white is encrypted, amber is plaintext, magenta came in from the internet.

  6. 6Your local network

    Phones, TVs, printers, consoles and the router, as the deck hears them on your LAN. It listens; it never scans.

  7. 7Other operators

    Decks that joined the shared matrix, at the places they chose to share, and what they say they are up to.

Read the silhouettes

An organization's shape says what it is, and its color family says the same from across the matrix.

  • Platformsstepped pyramid
  • Cloudscube stacks
  • CDNsspheres
  • Networks & ISPsringed masts
  • AI labscrystals
  • Gameslattices
  • Universitiesdomes
  • Securityshields
  • Governmentspirals
  • Everyone elsemonoliths

02 Lenses

One matrix, three ways to arrange it.

Press 1, 2 or 3, here or in the deck. Every construct moves to where the lens puts it, always in the direction of where it really is.

The sprawl lens: Europe's routed networks as a field of light seen from above, with lines of light arcing from home across the Atlantic to organizations in North America. The latency lens: organizations on concentric rings by their measured round trip from home, from half a millisecond for the local ISP to 130 milliseconds for a network in Asia. The trust lens: organizations on rings by posture, each with its reason, such as a hosting network that connected in to node.exe on port 3000.

By place

Organizations stand at their real locations over the galaxy, so the shape of your traffic is the shape of the world it reaches.

A readout for Microsoft beside its constructs: registry, place, links, traffic, latency with a light check, posture, and the programs talking to it.

03 Honest instruments

Everything explains itself.

Select anything and its readout says what the deck knows and how it knows it: owner and registry, place, live traffic, the round trip and how it was timed, posture and why, and which programs are talking to it.

When measurements contradict the databases, it says so. Light in fiber needs about 1 ms per 100 km there and back. Microsoft's servers answered this machine from within 760 km, so they can't be in Redmond: anycast edges give themselves away.

  • Traffic per connection from Windows' own network events, within 0.2% of real transfers.
  • Owners, roles and places resolved from public datasets kept on your PC.
  • Hops a traceroute's databases misplace are pulled back to where light could have reached in the measured time.

04 The Aleph

The matrix remembers.

Gibson's aleph held a copy of the matrix. This one holds yours. Press T and a timeline opens across the last hour, day, week or month, alerts marked along it. Drag back and the matrix becomes that moment, every line of light pulsing at the traffic measured in that very minute.

The Aleph's timeline open across the top of the matrix, three days of recorded activity with alerts marked along it.
at 3am

The matrix as it was. Or at yesterday 9pm, at 2h ago.

since 11pm

What happened: first contacts, programs online for the first time, alerts, who talked most.

history steam

When a program, organization or address was active, how much it moved, and with whom.

The record is one file on your PC, kept 14 days by default: about 25 MB a day on a busy desktop. The past is read-only, aleph off stops recording and aleph forget erases it.

The data city: a home folder's subfolders as glowing wireframe buildings, with a readout listing its biggest folders and actions to open, reveal, share as a shard, or trash.

05 The data city

Your drive, as a city.

Type data and descend into your home construct. Folders are districts and files are buildings. Footprint is size, so the biggest data stands widest; the newest stands tallest and brightest.

  • A whole drive walked in seconds, 2.4 million files in about 7 s on a 4 TB drive, without admin rights, then followed live.
  • find *.iso searches every name on the drive and raises gold beams where the matches are.
  • Open, show in Explorer, or move to the Recycle Bin. It asks twice, and refuses Windows' own files.
  • Names, sizes and dates are read on your PC and never leave it.
Another operator's glyph in the shared matrix with a data shard orbiting it, and the shard's readout: 214 files, 1.6 GB, every chunk checked against its SHA-256 as it arrives.

06 Operators

Meet other operators. Trade data shards.

Join the shared matrix and other decks appear as operators, at the places they chose to share: a city, a country, or nowhere. Talk to them from the console. Offer any file or folder as a data shard, to everyone or to one operator, and take the shards offered to you.

A shard is a manifest: each file's size and the SHA-256 of every 1 MiB chunk. Its key is the hash of that manifest, so every chunk is checked against what was offered, as it arrives.

  • Deck to deck over an end-to-end encrypted peer-to-peer mesh. No server ever holds a copy.
  • Withdraw a shard whenever you like. A file that changes after you offered it withdraws itself.
  • Your profile, AppData, key folders and Windows itself can never be shared.
  • The mesh is off until you turn it on.
An illustration, on the demo machine.

07 The construct

Ask the construct.

A local AI that reads the live matrix through the deck's own read-only tools. It runs on your GPU, in a model sized to it, and nothing you ask leaves your PC.

It can only propose commands. You decide what runs.

  • Models from 1.3 to 5.7 GB, downloaded when you ask and checked against their published hashes.
  • "What happened while I was away?", "which servers are slowest for me?", "what is using my drive?"

08 Operations

Not just a view. A deck.

Press / for the console. Everything you can see, you can act on, and anything that changes your machine asks first.

goto anthropic

Punch to any construct, program, address, gate or operator.

who google

Which programs are talking to an organization, and how much.

trace google.com

The route there, hop by hop, drawn across the matrix as a path of light.

ice seal 15701

Close an exposed port to the network. The program keeps working.

ice raise tiktok

Block every network an organization announces, in Windows Firewall.

flatline 1234

End a program. Asks twice, and refuses Windows' critical processes.

freeze 1234

Suspend a program in place; thaw brings it back.

newest

What changed most recently, across the drive or under the selection.

Jack in with a headset

vr opens the matrix in Chrome or Edge over OpenXR. With Quest Link or Air Link running, press JACK IN · VR and the matrix is all around you; the X button switches lenses.

It keeps watch

Close the window and the deck watches from the tray: a notification when someone on the internet connects in, a program opens a port, or a program reaches the internet for the first time. Ctrl+Alt+J jacks in from anywhere.

09 Privacy

Your matrix stays yours.

Stays on your PC

Everything the deck senses, the Aleph's record, and all it learns about your files. No account, no telemetry.

What it contacts

Dataset publishers, to build the map. Cloudflare, to learn your public address. DNS for reverse lookups, and Team Cymru for addresses the offline data can't place. Hugging Face only when you install a model. ICMP echoes only while the latency lens is open.

Asks first

Every firewall change goes through Windows' own approval. The construct only proposes. Flatline and trash ask twice, and the past is read-only.

An opt-in mesh

Off until you turn it on. Other operators see your handle, your place at the precision you choose, and only the shards you offer them.

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Cyberspace 0.3, preview.

New in 0.3: the latency lens, the trust lens, the Aleph and data shards, joining the data city, the construct, the LAN census, VR and the tray sentinel.

Coming soon

The first public preview is being readied. It will download from right here.

System
Windows 11, 64-bit
Graphics
A GPU with WebGPU: any recent NVIDIA, AMD or Intel
Install
186 MB, for your Windows user only. No admin needed.
First start
Builds its map from public data (about 100 MB), usually within a minute.
Note
The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows may warn you once: choose More info, then Run anyway.