After spending the last week or so getting my server back in order and all of my websites updated, I started to click through old comments on one of my blogs. I was just curious to see what websites were still active and very few were. Somehow I ended up on a neocities.org hosted site.

Oh. My. God.

It was like being transported back to 2000 and I’m learning what a personal website is. Teenager me viewing source code to see what they did–which by the way, how the hell did I ever figure out how to do that pre-Google?! I spent no less than 30 minutes browsing all of the websites in the gallery when I realized this is what I miss. An honest to god personal website. Fuck a blog.

I don’t really care that much about blogging and having people reading posts to leave comments. I miss having a personal website that’s full of spunk and flair. I hate the how corporate the internet has turned. It’s so fucking horrible viewing a website without an adblocker (router level dns filtering ftw), everything looks like the same WordPress theme. Influencer hell.

Despite just getting this domain setup again, I’m going to just keep this as my self-hosted version of LiveJournal and nothing else here. But you bet your ass I made an account on neocities.org and I’m going to spend hours upon hours making a website that would impress my 12 year old heart.