Hi there! This is my website. You can keep reading if you want.
Reader, that is a great question! I find myself to ask myself that same question, sometimes. Anyway yeah, I'm 21 years old and I'm pretty much a NEET. That stands for "Not in Education Employment or Training". I say basically because I'm technically still in school, although I'm only taking an online class right now. I burned myself out pretty bad last semester, but that's neither here nor there.
Anyway, I guess I should tell you about myself, since you asked. Or maybe you didn't ask and I should just go ahead and get to the point already. My name is Furret. I like Furret. I'm 21 years old, as I said. I'm still in school. I'm an art major at a local college, it's really not a big deal. I like to draw, paint, and write (although I don't do it as often as I should.) I'm super into music, particularly stuff like The Cure, Beastie Boys, Plastic Tree, stuff like that. I like old school hip hop, breakcore, gothic rock, visual kei... I like a lot of stuff I guess, music-wise.
I've got a few reasons, I guess. Most of them are selfish. Actually, maybe all of them are selfish. I'm a selfish person.
Sure, I'm a zoomer so I wasn't around for the times when the internet was this shiny new thing, a mystical place of wonder with sketchy chatrooms. I grew up at the tail end of this sort of weird transitional period where the internet was just being figured out. Right at the point where there were less and less old-school forums and the internet became more and more centralized into this big thing. Where social media became synonymous with life, and small corners of the internet like this one started to collect cobwebs. I remember when Fred was the first ever guy on YouTube to hit 1 million subscribers. I remember when Instagram was new. I remember FaceBook becoming mainstream with people my parent's age, and not just the cool older sibling types that used FaceBook back in like 2012 or so. I remember hearing jokes that used to fly back in 2012 be dennounced as racist/sexist/offensive some 4 or 5 years later. I saw YouTube go from this place where people could say pretty much whatever they wanted to have to censor words like "murder" and use dumb baby watered down replacements like "unalive", all in the name of not pissing off the advertisting overlords.
I miss the old internet in the sense that I miss the sheer chaos of it.
Before the internet became a place where all you can do is either buy things, be bombarded with ads to get you to buy things, or be a vouyeur and watch other people post their precious perfect lives on social media. I really do miss those simpler times.
This reason is selfish, I guess. I assure you, reader, I'm not full of myself or anything like that. I really fucking hope I don't come across as being like that. I just miss the old internet aesthetic. I've seen the things that people have made by themselves for themselves, just by using Neocities. It's really cool the things that people can do here. I'd like to be able to make something like that too. It would be so cool if I had this little slice of the massive pie that is the internet; my own slice, just for me. Where I can just post whatever I want.
I could use it as my own blog and just ramble about my day. Pour the thoughts out from my head and have it be read by other people, if they want to read it (if only I could type as fast as I think, but you get what I mean). I could use it as my own personal art site, just because I can. Post my paintings and maybe even comics someday. I could even get good enough to the point that I can make a website shrine dedicated to all my favorite fictional characters. Don't judge me on that last one, okay?
I'm a NEET. I've got all this free time. I've got so much free time it's kind of absurd. I might as well use it to learn something. I'm incredibly fortunate and I know that-- to waste time is an insult to both myself and others who don't have time. Obviously, I just started learning HTML. I know it's a long way to go from here. Hell, I still need to learn proper CSS to actually make this thing look cool. And then get even more fancy with JavaScript.
Still, it's baby steps, right? You have to learn the foundations before you can make shit that's REALLY cool. I guess coding is like art that way.