Internet Nostalgia
Mar. 1st, 2021 12:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grayestofghostsIn the meantime I've been thinking about having more serious posts on here but in the meanwhile I'm having serious early 2000s internet nostalgia, thinking about the geocities and pixel art I made in elementary school. Some things have definitely improved while I do think the way most social media is, putting lots of people in a small pit to fight it out and intentionally making them see content that makes them angry for "clicks" has... well, made the world worse.
Back in the days of neopets I had a geocities website with a seafoam green background and a page counter where I posted my pixel dolls. I was very fond of certain artists, and one of them at least, KawaiiHannah is incredibly still around though she seems to do traditional art mostly now though her pixel art is still online.
I was thinking about how I probably would not have the patience to do pixel art now. I mean, I have a lot of tedious hobbies and interests, sure, but I guess the reward for it would not be as much now. There was a lot of community around this stuff and now I have no idea what I would do, it just seems like shouting into the void. I mean there's doing art for art's sake, I know that and do that, but like, when I do that I use physical media, because having something that's not just computer data is... well, it's something, at least.
I was looking at carrd as an alternative to the old-style static sites and I have a resounding maybe. There's also neocities, but again I do not know how much I remember of HTML and CSS and if I have the patience or energy to make a new site from scratch right now. There's also, you know... what I'd put on it. I don't even know. It's hard enough to maintain a blog, because I think I should have something important to say to post. A static website? That's even moreso!
It's really hard to be the change one wants to be, especially when there's no one else around. I really should use this site more. Bleh.
Back in the days of neopets I had a geocities website with a seafoam green background and a page counter where I posted my pixel dolls. I was very fond of certain artists, and one of them at least, KawaiiHannah is incredibly still around though she seems to do traditional art mostly now though her pixel art is still online.
I was thinking about how I probably would not have the patience to do pixel art now. I mean, I have a lot of tedious hobbies and interests, sure, but I guess the reward for it would not be as much now. There was a lot of community around this stuff and now I have no idea what I would do, it just seems like shouting into the void. I mean there's doing art for art's sake, I know that and do that, but like, when I do that I use physical media, because having something that's not just computer data is... well, it's something, at least.
I was looking at carrd as an alternative to the old-style static sites and I have a resounding maybe. There's also neocities, but again I do not know how much I remember of HTML and CSS and if I have the patience or energy to make a new site from scratch right now. There's also, you know... what I'd put on it. I don't even know. It's hard enough to maintain a blog, because I think I should have something important to say to post. A static website? That's even moreso!
It's really hard to be the change one wants to be, especially when there's no one else around. I really should use this site more. Bleh.
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