The Internet

Hi! This section is for my internet-related interests and posts. I came of age at the turn of the millenium (forgive me) and lived online for most of that decade.

Neocities & Webmastery

I came across Neocities in late 2024 from a random video. I don't make any of the base code or templates for the pages I've made, I just edit stuff that is freely available (with attribution). I aim to keep them simple, easy to read and navigate, and accessible across devices :)

RainyDisco Live: I had been wanting to make a totally barrierless wiki-style info source for a minecraft server I host, and eventually dove to create rainydisco.neocities.org. The server is personal, and stricly closed to stangers, but feel free to check out the site and take ideas or inspiration for your minecraft world. The Eggramen templates I used were really easy to read and alter for my purposes. I have had a lot of fun making and updating that site! Especially the news page :)

Virbex: Since then I had been working on another neocities site about virtual worlds called 'Virbex'. It has info guides for a bunch of online worlds & games that are still free to access today, as well as blog and resource sections. We used a Zonelets theme for that site, which I didn't initially realize came with her associated blogging code.

DiscoPotato On-Line: After gaining more experience using the Zonelets blogging code, I was compelled to make my own personal blog site here. Styling is as follows;

• Main Theme: Zonelets 'Fingerless Gloves' template recoloured to suit the background image from sadgrl's tiled backgrounds resource page. I think it looks like a terminal into a borg/xenomorph-like hive.
• 'Gaming' Theme: Zonelets 'Fingerless Gloves' template recoloured to suit the background image from verycrazy.com's wallpapers page. This is what 'cool games' look like in my mind (Doom, Hexen, Diablo)
• 'Alt Tech' Theme: Zonelets 'Fingerless Gloves' template recoloured to suit the background image from sadgrl's tiled backgrounds resource page. Circuit board = electronics, really not much else to it, lol.
• 'Cooking' Theme: based on the look of a cafe I used to go to. Made with the Zonelets 'Nude' template.
• 'Internet' Theme: explained in the white text box at the bottom of this page...

My Website Credits & Image Index page has more detailed credits, links, and info on image licenses

'Alternative' Internet

Recently I have been exploring more 'alternative' or 'independent' internet stuff like fediverse sites, Gemini and Gopher protocols, RSS, and front-ends for youtube. Data privacy has been a big motivator for that, along with just total disinterest in 'social' sites with people I barely speak to, awful user experience, and unethical work/environmental/social practices.

My '32-bit Support Report' page has resources on web browsers that still support 32-bit/x86 computers

Internet Posts

Computer Chronicles, Net Cafe & Screen Savers

Manually Adding Existing Zonelets Posts to zoneRSS

My Webbed Site

Little Updates

Learning Some sIMPle GIMP Stuff

Trying Out RSS

Why I Like Blogging

Virbex Is Online

Alternate Android App Sources

Pixelfed Portfolio

Youtube Front End Alternatives (no ads)

Moving Virtual Photography to Pixelfed

Internet Resources