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Claire here. I’m a stray cat loosed on the World Wide Web decades ago. I’m one of many digital strays, whiskers twitching in the dystopian glow of our screens. Maybe you’re one, too? Or just someone who understands?

On this site, I talk about cynicism, nostalgia, and digital culture. You’ll find unique digital lore here and other liminal strangeness. I want to highlight the downright weird millennial technology experience. Living through the birth of ubiquitous computing had both positive and negative aspects. I’m talking (mostly) about the 1990s and 2000s, when the internet was just beginning to take over our lives.

Latest Articles

  • year 2000 mock electionIn the year 2000, middle school students roleplayed as the George W. Bush and Al Gore campaigns, complete with a mock election that had the entire school participating.
  • you fail authenticity foreverDespite it's anonymity and freedom, 4chan was the least authentic place I ever visited online. But why??!!
  • awful mental health narrativesMillennials had many reasons to struggle with mental illness, and many of us did. We, and people around us, were ready to explain these struggles in various (unhelpful) ways, though.
  • wizards of 4chanBelieve it or not, I once ran around with a pack of 4chan sorcerers, but why? What's up with that site, anyways?
  • weblog scandal of 2002The internet confused a lot of people, including educators and students. How should we use the new technology, if at all? I certainly felt pressure to abandon certain aspects when my art teacher found my weblog...
  • don't go to eirielMany people have heard of the Hatman, but what was Eiriel? about the dangerous trend online of abusing Benadryl in the late 2000s...
  • mandatory immortalityAre we really just born to die? Robert Ray Hedges wanted to change that. Somehow. When 4chan came across the maze of websites he created, nobody was sure what to make of it...!

Contents

This is a directory of most every page and section on this site. Visit the updates page, for all changes ever since the site opened way back in 2024. Pages in a pale color are upcoming. While most articles are SFW (safe-for-work), this site is intended for mature audiences. Certain pages have their own content warnings.

Links including a small icon like this are more vitriolic than the other articles. If you'd like to read all of these flames, they're here

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New discord server! Click here to join, of course.

This new server is for those wanting to do creative stuff. Worldbuilders are welcome, especially if you want to share your worlds, paracosms, or creations with others for feedback or just curiosity. Expect space for nonfiction writers as well, and artists of various sorts. I hope we can share ideas and more creations. These might be writing or artwork, including fiction, nonfiction essays, worldbuilding, and more. This is designed to be a generally SFW environment, but is 18+.

Anyone, regardless of whether they’ve any connection to the new web itself can join. It’s about writing, worldbuilding, and art stuff, not websites. You're free to send this link to friends beyond neocities if they’d like to join. Having a website is not a requirement for participation here. It also isn’t meant to supplant other servers. There are plenty of those about other topics, and the existing ones are quite good. Let me know of major errors in functionality, etc…

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