From Cicada 3301 to Cryptography

I started with “Cicada 3301: the internet’s strangest puzzle” and followed it into technology and mystery.

1. Internet Culture
   Cicada 3301: the internet’s strangest puzzle
   This is the door they chose.
2. Technology
   Cryptography: secrets with mathematics
   Every Cicada layer was a cipher of some kind. To follow the trail at all, solvers had to speed-run the history of secret writing.
3. Technology
   Steganography: the message you can’t see
   The brain jumped; the bridge went unrecorded.
4. Mystery
   Numbers stations: voices reading nothing
   The brain jumped; the bridge went unrecorded.
5. Internet Culture
   ARGs: games that pretend to be reality
   The brain jumped; the bridge went unrecorded.