AN0N
20 // chronically online

i've been a self taught coder for ~2 years now, and i feel i've learnt a lot!! although carrd and rentry and strawpage are all viable options, i always find myself returning to neocities. there's something so very special about coding the whole site from the bottom up, despite how often i forget all the different tags.

i'd love to understand tech more - and maybe in making this site i'll learn a little more. i'm always scouring ebay, searching for cool bits and pieces, random mice and software install discs from the early 2000's. i don't remember everything from back then, but i have a vivid memory of playing a scooby doo cd-rom on the huge pc in our attic, sat on my dad's lap. it was very fun, even though i wasn't very good at it, and there was something so very special about the pc itself. it was one of those huge cream ones, chunky and heavy and sat on a trolley running windows xp - it hummed when you turned it on, and felt so alive. the cd player whirred, and it clicked and popped and spoke when you touched it. i'm in search of something similar now.

technology and the online world feature in most of my early memories. fleeting images of cables and wires when i had surgery as a child, the joy i felt when the massive television we watched vhs tapes on wheeled into my year 6 classroom, the disgusted curiosity i felt with my old shitty brick phone that i watched bestgore videos on in my school canteen, the comfort i felt with my wonderful pink ds lite my mum bought for me when my sister was born. i played a lot of nintendogs. especially now, i feel more connected to technology than ever - i am chronically ill, and i find myself more alive on the internet than in real life. i sparkle in ways i cannot from my bed.

i also care very deeply about media and digital literacy, and the freedom of information in this modern age. i love the internet archive with all my heart, as well as wikipedia, and i truly believe they are some of the most important archives of our age. information deserves to be free, education is a human right and the internet allows us access to knowledge in a way never previously seen. i am vehemently against region locking, internet censorship and the commodification of online information and personal data - although please don't construe my passion for free speech to be in a right wing way. the internet is owned by the rich, and i will eat them until i am sick. piracy is free and easy and sexy if it hurts big corporations, you deserve better than to pay for every single streaming service so take to your heart's content. fuck online streaming services and fuck corporate owned entertainment - support physical media and access things while you still can. piracy is preservation in most cases - and art is made to be viewed, not lost to time. just remember to pay for indie stuff. support artists, fuck ai.

tl:dr; - i love tech and the internet very very much and i feel it has changed me in very wonderful ways. the internet truly is part of me, and i feel it should be protected as such - we've gone from having a lawless wasteland online to an overly sanitised, corporate hell. i hope we find a middleground someday. also cancelled movies/shows that are now legally unobtainable should become public domain i am not taking any questions