FABLED.DAY: remember the internet?

Claire here. I’m a (dingy, old and gray) stray cat. I was loosed on the World Wide Web at a young age. Consider me one of many digital strays, with twitchy whiskers in the dystopian technicolor light of our computer screens. Maybe you’re one, too? Or just someone who understands?

On this site, I talk about cynicism, nostalgia, and digital culture from my own feline perspective. You’ll find internet lore here, my own personal memories, and other liminal strangeness from the early days of the World Wide Web. I want to highlight the downright weird millennial technology experience. I have some things I’d like to hiss about, too…

Living through the birth of ubiquitous computing had both positive and negative aspects, and my writings here explore both. Have a look at 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. Perhaps you remember it, too?

I’ve, of course, always loved prowling the internet . I’ve been trying my hand at conjuring up websites ever since the mid-1990s when I first logged on. I'm a gray cat, though, , not a webbing professional at all…

I know a little bit of HTML, CSS, and Javascript, allowing me to create this site (officially) on April 20th, 2024. My paws have been delightfully busy at my Epomaker ever since, batting at threads of HTML and CSS here on neocities. I’m hoping to share what I can learn.

So far, I’ve used several different themes for this site. Cats like me often just can’t make up our minds. That’s why we walk in and out of rooms so much, flicking our ears, twitching our tails. You are now viewing Version 5.0 Eleventh Dragon, running on 11ty. A new look for my territory…

I try to share resources here that work well with large sites, in terms of content, not megabytes. I hope to encourage more people who want to do that on independent websites.

I think it can be agreed that large articles don’t work well on most social media platforms, which tend to either have a “microblogging” or “tweet-like” format. Social media also seems dull after a while. Most feeds eventually resemble each other after a while aesthetically and emotionally, even if the content as such is different.

Fabled?

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?. 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.

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

Current Status

Great mews, actually! It's August of 2025 and site is MIA until I finish using 11ty (a static site generator) to remake it! As you can see, I'm quite close. Expect it soon, before the first week of September here at the latest! Almost all of the pages you see listed on the Table of Contents below are written and ready to be uploaded. It will be ready before the first week of September. I just have to prepare them for 11ty! I got pawprints everywhere, but I will leave them.

Meanwhile, visit Surfscape, who was an amazing help in this process! Tip: You might actually still be able to access the old, non-11ty version of these articles via Internet Archive if you try, I have no idea…

Contents

And here, we find a general directory of most every page and section on this site. Visit the updates page, where you'll see a running log of changes ever since the site opened way back in 2024.

Again, as of August 2025, site is currently being upgraded to use 11ty, a static site generator in tandem with the usual neocities, so not all articles are available again. Check back in a week or so.

On this site, I talk about some mature topics, including some that are sex-related, political, and others. (Mostly) SFW, but not intended for youngsters. It probably won't make sense anyways. Certain pages have their own content warnings, too, of course. The pages with the 's up icon often discuss serious subjects.

Links including a small icon like this are more vitriolic than the other articles. They're the ones where I really hiss and claw at reality. If you'd like to read all of these flames, they're here

Stay a while...

Anyways, 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. 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 yours. I try to follow everyone's policies, though!

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.