I am not a content creator. I am not building a personal brand. There will be no strategy for increasing engagement here. I am a man approaching 40 who decided he wanted a place on the internet again.
I come from the old world.
I was there in year one of /b/. I saw the memes during the genesis. I uploaded to YouTube when YouTube was not even one year old. I heard the scream of the dial-up modem and wandered the endless halls of America Online. When I needed knowledge, I consulted the Encarta 97 CD-ROM.
I destroyed the family computer, because I was too young to understand
linkin_park_numb.mp3.exe was not what it seemed. I made Dragon Ball Z AMVs in 240p before you took your first
breath. I have World of Warcraft characters old enough to buy a handgun.
I watched the internet become enormous. Then useful. Then beautiful. Then centralized. Then optimized. Eventually every strange little place became an account on somebody else's platform, and every person became a profile being measured, recommended, monetized and fed back to an algorithm.
I have returned to the old ways.
This is my cave on the internet. There is no algorithm here. Nothing is optimized. It will not look good on your phone. There is no infinite scroll. There is only whatever I feel like putting here.
I will build things. I will write things. I will show you things I think are important. Some of them will not be important at all.