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Created: 2025-06-25 (19:57:23)
Status: in progress

This page threatens to be a long one.

I’ve become obsessed with neocities.

My website has been around online for years in several incarnations, under different names and hosts. Back when I was trying to become an artist it used my real name. Its layout was minimalist, its images and text carefully curated.

Then that dream passed and it turned into a dumping ground for old university papers and exegeses and half-finished projects. The layout fell apart too. Ugly, raw html, no css, but it worked well enough to navigate around all the fragments. At some point that real name domain expired, then the hosting, and the whole tangled heap of it wound up on neocities, more or less abandoned.

I’ve become obsessed. What changed? My internet usage hardly decreased during the fallow years, so why has it shifted so abruptly back to this space of guestbooks, handcoded html and css, weblinks and webrings? Why is it such a relief?

Web spaces

I initially used spatial web for the experience of exploring sites like neocities. Then it turned out most people online use spatial web to refer to, um, the convergence of technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, internet-of-things, physical space and people. So a different term will have to be found.

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