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technology!!! pretty please

Love looking for tech-related ones!

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neocities guide - why you should build your own html website

do you miss the charm of the 90s/00s web where sites had actual personality instead of the same minimalistic theme? are you feeling drained by social media and the constant corporate monopoly of your data and time? do you want to be excited about the internet again? try neocities!!

what is neocities?

neocities is a free hosting website that lets you build your own html website from scratch, with total creative control. in their own words: "we are tired of living in an online world where people are isolated from each other on boring, generic social networks that don't let us truly express ourselves. it's time we took back our personalities from these sterilized, lifeless, monetized, data mined, monitored addiction machines and let our creativity flourish again."

why should I make my own website?

web3 has been overtaken by capitalism & conformity. websites that once were meant to be fun online social spaces now exist solely to steal your data and sell you things. it sucks!! building a personal site is a great way to express yourself and take control of your online experience.

what would I even put on a website?

the best part about making your own site is that you can do literally whatever the hell you want! focus on a specific subject or make it a wild collection of all your interests. share your art! make a shrine for one of your interests! post a picture of every bird you see when you step outside! make a collection of your favorite blinkies! the world is your oyster !! here are some cool example sites to inspire you: recently updated neocities sites | it can be fun to just look through these and browse people's content! space bar | local interstellar dive bar creature feature | halloween & monsters big gulp supreme peanutbuttaz | personal site dragodiluna linwood | personal site patho grove | personal site

getting started: neocities/html guide

sound interesting? here are some guides to help you get started, especially if you aren't familiar with html/css sadgrl.online webmastery | a fantastic resource for getting started with html & web revival. also has a layout builder that you can use to start with in case starting from scratch is too intimidating web design in 4 minutes | good for learning coding basics w3schools | html tutorials templaterr | demo & html for basic web elements eggramen test pages | css page templates to get started with sadgrl background tiles | bg tiles rivendell background tiles | more free bg tiles

fun stuff to add to your site

want your site to be cool? here's some fun stuff that i've found blinkies-cafe | fantastic blinkie maker! (run by @transbro & @graphics-cafe) gificities | internet archive of 90s/00s web gifs internet bumper stickers | web bumper stickers momg | gif gallery 99 gif shop | 3d gifs 123 guestbook | add a guestbook for people to leave messages cbox | add a live chat box moon phases | track the phases of the moon gifypet | a little clickable page pet adopt a shroom | mushroom page pet tamaNOTchi | virtual pet crossword puzzle | daily crossword imood | track your mood neko | cute cat that chases your mouse pollcode | custom poll maker website hit counter | track how many visitors you have

web revival manifestos & communities

also, there's actually a pretty cool community of people out there who want to bring joy back to the web! melonland project | web project/community celebrating individual & joyful online experiences. Also has an online forum melonland intro to web revival | what is web revival? melonking manifesto | status cafe | share your current status nightfall city | online community onio.cafe | leave a message and enjoy the ambiance sadgrl internet manifesto | yesterweb internet manifesto | sadly defunct, still a great resource reclaiming online social spaces | great manifesto on cultivating your online experience

in conclusion

i want everyone to make a neocities site because it's fun af and i love seeing everyone's weird personal sites that they made outside of the control of capitalism :) say hi to me on neocities

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Various audio snippets of my childhood that I've collected.

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Macintosh SE, clear display unit, 1987

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PLEASE REBLOG

I’m considering coming out to my family as non-binary, and so today I brought up the subject of non-binary gendering/transgendering with my Dad as a casual conversational topic. He’s told me that if somebody is born a boy then they “should stay a fucking boy” and not trans to a girl or be a boy some days/girl other days/genderless other days.

I told him that I think gender identity should be something one can choose for themselves, and he says that nobody thinks like that and anybody who is trans/non-binary will just be shunned by every member of society they meet. He doesn’t think that people support n-b/t communities, because he doesn’t. He says to me that not staying one’s natural gender is wrong and against the point of being born a boy/girl.

Every person who reblogs this will have their URL written in a full-size writing book and when it is full I will show it to my father to illustrate to him the amount of people who believe that being non-binary is a valid gender identity.

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Trick or Treat!

omg I wasn’t expecting trick or treaters….!! here, take two!! ^_^

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UNRIVALED COMPUTING POWER

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HAL 9000, IBM PC, Apple Newton, IBM Thinkpad, Microsoft Surface book, IPod, Apple Macintosh, Custom built :-), Compaq Prolinea, IMac G3, Asus Vivobook, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, Zune + Windows phone, Osborne 1

[September 27, 2022]

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this is eroticism of the machine. to me.

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Robot characters who are given names like SL-308-62 but instead of their human friend going Well let's call you Sally for short, they instead ask the other if they Like their current name.

"Do you like your serial number?" they ask. "Yes, quite. It reminds me of who I am" the robot replies. "I have heard others like me go by different names after some time, and maybe one day I'll choose one for myself, too. But right now that is my full name, yes" they continue.

Because it's not your decision to make whether or not the robot will receive a new name. It should be theirs only. What's the difference? One is more complex and the other is simplified. They were both given by strangers instead of themselves.

"62 will do," they conclude. "It's my model number - there will be no other 62 after me."

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Rant? Yeah.

Scrolling through robotkin and computerkin tags has got me thinking.

Where are the mainframes? Where are the switches, the routers, the NAS devices... Where are the supercomputers? All I see are cyborgs and old Macs, which aren't bad because I LOVE vintage computing and body mods, but I want to see... more?

Who else wants to be a part of the scripted hivemind that is a server farm? Who else finds Frontier (ugh i love Frontier) strangely alluring? Who else sees sleek, modern-design computing and thinks it is beautiful?

If I were to entertain the idea that I am kin to these machines, I feel I would fit in with mainframes, or small arrays of powerful computers... Along the lines of crypto mining rigs or small business networking. Hell, I saw a networking closet made up of two small racks in a gigantic processing facility (I feel so bad for those things...). Members of my family have even said that I function like a machine. I hate being injured because it slows me down, I'm autistic (self diagnosed because an actual diagnosis would fuck up my career), and I work in IT!

I feel like it should be more popular is all 🤔. Maybe it's because we have no term for it. Or because nobody thinks about these big computers that uphold modern society. ISkin or infosyskin might work... As in information systems.

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! OTHERKIN HELP NEEDED !

Is there a kintype for identifying as a non specified video game character?

Where you feel like a non sentient video game model made of code???

But you’re not from a specific game or franchise???

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Startup image for Q/Media for Windows v 1.1, 1993.

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IBM Thinkpad 701CS - the one with the famous butterfly keyboard - VCF Southwest 2023

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Windows XP Handbag

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