Welcome, web wanderer!

Note: Above is Lulu, the site mascot, a young dog who might be humankin - who knows? She may look friendly, but can attack on command. Keep that in mind.

Welcome to Fabled.day! 

Here, you can follow my return to web development and coding as a hobby. I'm not the best, but I'll share what I learn. I’ll also be posting some ancient lore from the early days of the World Wide Web, often highlighting the downright weird way many millennials experienced technology. I'll talk about nostalgia and related topics, too. I want to show both the negative and positive aspects of growing up on the edge of ubiquitious computing.

Lots of cool and strange things happened back in the early years of the internet, one must admit! The World Wide Web’s sudden meteoric growth took the world somewhat by surprise, and left us all unsure how to react or behave.

We felt like explorers in unknown territory, even when doing things we’d consider completely ordinary today. The rules were unwritten and the game had just begun.

This site contains a collection of stories about my life growing up on that strange cusp, just as the internet was beginning to take over our lives. Some of the stories emphasize the shifting nature of technology’s role in my life; others just highlight how society has changed in the past twenty years.

My experiences with the internet haven’t been entirely positive. I would argue nobody’s have been. They’ve been meaningful and dear enough to me to make me glad I ended up online when and where I did. I do not regret joining many of the online communities I found, though there’s plenty of exceptions.

I'm learning more and more about coding and contemporary web design recently, and I'm hoping to share what I can of what I learn here. In case you hadn't noticed, many of the resources on this site are tailored towards those wanting to create larger (in terms of number of pages and files, not megabytes), text-based websites.

I want to learn to better express myself online in this unique environment, and maybe I can help others, too. I think that too many people ignore the potential neocities (and similar places) have for that kind of sharing. Larger sites, showcasing everything from stories to research, definitely should be more encouraged. 

You do not see this often enough on the “small” static web, nor the web at large, which is dominated by videos and images. 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 is, also, dull for many of us who grew up on the colorful web of yesteryear. Really now, all those white backgrounds drenched in wasted potential bore even the most devout cybernaut. 

Fabled is not a site that features graphics or templates, though - just simple code snippets, tips, and tutorials, as well as small articles about relevant topics. Nearly all resources presently hosted on Fabled are optimized for desktop viewers, but most will function on mobile. Some look quite silly on mobile, but are nonetheless functional. Most can be integrated with an existing responsive theme with passable success, too. I hope to provide more mobile resources in the future.

Table of 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.

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...

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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!

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