90's web nostalgia 💾

A quiet afternoon before sunset at Trillium Lake in Oregon with Mt. Hood in the background.

A quiet afternoon before sunset at Trillium Lake in Oregon with Mt. Hood in the background.

And another place where the fandom diaspora dispersed to after the meltdowns at LiveJournal and Tumblr will be going dark. 🥲

“ unspeakablehorror commented Understandable if you don't feel you have the bandwidth to set that up, but if you do perhaps it could be useful to future social media projects, in the same way the open sourcing of the LiveJournal codebase by the original owners allowed Dreamwidth to be created. ”

I saw posts about this yesterday but didn't quite have the words then; now I'll try anyway. I am so, so sorry. I always loved seeing photos of Brian. Way back on livejournal, a friend I've since lost touch with said of pets, "they take pieces of us when they go, the thieves." 💔

With Pillowfort shutting down at the start of December, it's time to look for a blog space-- again. I've looked at those in the Fediverse, and they are still not very good; abandoned or too minimalist. Right now my top contenders are really throwbacks: neocities (successor to geocities) or […]

Ha, thats neat~ and apparently I'm bad at reading, cuz its Neocities that people have been making websites on and my brain just never realized that's an N. Whole time i just thought Geocities came back from the dead 😅

and I just found out that searching geocities on google changes the font to comic sans (or something similar).

Also, I'm enjoying the bit in your bio about being LiveJournal user #1004, because I was Facebook user #128. Oldsters unite!

(i say that like zeratanus isnt itself a relic of my childhood love of Starcraft -and- my inability to spell, so Zeratul and Artanis = Zeratanus 🤷) Maybe ill make a free geocities site or something and have zeratanus .com point there. Been meaning to set up a simple little site sometime anyway.