FABLED.DAY: welcome, web wanderers!

Welcome to Fabled.day. Here, I talk about cynicism, nostalgia, and digital culture. You’ll find internet lore here, my own personal memories, and more from the early days of the World Wide Web.

I want to highlight the downright weird millennial technology experience. Living through the birth of ubiquitous computing had both positive and negative aspects, and my writings here explore both. Have a look this site’s growing collection of articles about that strange cusp. I’m talking (mostly) about the 1990s and 2000s, when the internet was just beginning to take over our lives.

Beyond all that, this is a personal site maintained by a hobbyist webmistress. Though I’ve been enamored of the internet, programming, web design and more since I first logged on in the 1990s, I can’t say I’ve got a history as a web design professional of any sort. I know a little bit of HTML, CSS, and Javascript, allowing me to create this site (officially) on April 20th, 2024. You are now viewing Version 3.5 Last Dragons.

Here, you can also follow (if you want) my return to webweaving as a hobby. I’m not the best, but I’m hoping to share what I can of what I learn here. Many of the resources I share here work well with large sites - in terms of content, not megabytes. Most of my sites have a lot of text content, after all. I hope to encourage more people who want to do the same on independent websites. I think it can be agreed that large posts don’t work well on most social media platforms, which tend to either have a “microblogging” or “tweet-like” format. Social media seems dull for many of us who grew up on the colorful web of yesteryear. All those white backgrounds drenched in wasted potential bore even the most devout cybernaut, don’t they? 

Fabled?

Oh, and yes? Why is this site called Fabled, in case you’re curious? The word shares much in common with terms like legendary and renowned, of deep historical significance, too. It also, though, carries the connotation of mythological or even fictitious. And why Fabled.day, of all possible TLDs? I'm not entirely sure I have a good answer for that. And yet... The phrase sounds nigh apocalyptic, doesn’t it?

Meaningful on many levels if one thinks within the mindset of a millennial, but it's quite difficult to quantify exactly why. Much of our lives has been “fabled” in one way or another, and often in many different ways at once. I might someday write some bizarre stream of consciousness piece about the word "fabled", but, until then? Draw your own conclusions, and maybe choose what it means to you, personally, if anything at all, I guess? The phrase just called to me. Silly, but I just had to pick it.

Oh, and yes. There’s also a bit of peeking into the future here, though perhaps not successfully. We’ll see!

Contents

And here, we find a general directory of most every page and section on this site. It even lists some that are planned, yet haven’t been completed (denoted with the ∅ sign). This isn’t a comprehensive peek at my plans for the site by any means. You can see general updates, as well as some of what's planned, on the updates page. This does give you an idea both of what I’ve posted already about content management, site creation, and other related topics, as well as future subjects for articles, sections, or tutorials. If you would like a peek at the code for this collapsing series of unordered lists used to create the below index, snag the code here.

Stay a while...

I try to keep this updated, but it is not a blog. Anyways, here's a button you can use to link to this site if you’d like. Please save it to your own webspace and do not hotlink. Linking to this site is always appreciated, but not really necessary. In other words, crib if you want, dearies. Just limit it to my mediocre code, alright?

No copying my writings, however ridiculous they may be. If you yourself have reason to believe I've somehow borrowed from you and you find it unacceptable, please simply contact me. Nine times out of ten, I will just remove the content in question if it is indeed borrowed. I try to follow everyone's policies, though!

I try to use as few images as possible nowadays. Most are illustrations, from cliparts I bought. A small few are public domain images. I don't have a proper image editing program. I struggle with even the basics of that, so clipart is my jam for illustrating things, unfortunately.

Many individual sections of this site also have their own theme songs of sorts, to play on the page - these are typically linked from elsewhere that permits it. Perhaps you'll find these songs topical to each section, or perhaps not. You decide. They don't autoplay!

As you likely expect having heard that, there is ample use of javascripts on this site, and it is best if you have that enabled when browsing. If you don't, you can still navigate via the above table of contents, but many cosmetic and organizational site features will not be operational.

Because I use some very foul language and discuss mature topics sometimes, this site was created with mature visitors in mind. It's (mostly) SFW, but not intended for youngsters. Certain pages have their own content warnings, too, of course.

If you are active on neocities, consider following me there. I share updates on my profile as well as the updates page here. I strongly encourage anyone seeking a static site host to consider neocities, speaking of which. It is one of the most ubiquitous options for a reason. Some other very zippy sites can be found linked on my wall of buttons.