The Ihara-Bragg Protocol was the foundation of Cyberspace's rapid development. It was a genius algorithm that converted electronic information into information humans could process, letting them perceive and control it through their five senses, as easily as moving their own limbs.
In terms of hearing, meaningful data streams were reflected in tones that suited human hearing. They weren't as pleasant as music, but most tones could be distinguished. Their pitch reflected the importance and priority of the data, while the more simultaneous frequency bands there were, the more chaotic and dense the sound became.
In terms of touch, data streams with a temperature were meaningful data streams, and the higher the temperature, the greater their density. The roughness of a surface's texture represented how tightly sealed the data was and how reliable its structure was. The amplitude of vibrations sometimes represented the data type: text, an image, or a video.
In terms of smell. Few hackers used olfactory encoding, but the main reason was that olfaction-related Cyberware Modulator Firmware was complicated and expensive.
Generally speaking, it was either blocked by the hacker, or the data stream was encoded as a recognizable smell. Some frequently used data streams were bound to the smells they were most familiar with, such as smoke, alcohol, and perfume.
Taste was also a high-end sense, and likewise required an advanced Cyberware Modulator and Firmware. Hackers encoded specific data as sour, sweet, bitter, or spicy flavors, with intensity representing data density.
An aggressive data stream would instantly raise the voltage to its limit, usually meaning the information density had reached its peak. In such cases, all five senses would ultimately converge in different ways on the same result: pain.
Hackers who began studying this transformation protocol could write their own Cyberspace avatars and, in turn, use their