Basically just "what's your happy place?"
For me, there's this obscure card game that I was really into years ago. It's out of print, the company shut down years ago. But there's still a very small online community that discusses it (and by small I mean like, maybe a post every two weeks on the message board) and it's kinda nice to see people still talking about it. And I have thousands of these cards I still need to sort so I can finally try and get at least a copy of every card before it becomes so obscure you can't even find copies.
Whenever I'm feeling doomer about the state of the world or even just mentally ground down by life, I get those cards out and start sorting. I can easily lose a few hours that way but I'm vibing the whole time. Just wish I had more time for it.
So what about you all? Just be careful not to dox yourself or anything.
I love web 1.0 stuff, I spend a lot of time going through sites on the internet archive, oocities, and this Japanese geocities archive called geolog. Personal home pages are such a treat and take me back to the late 90's to mid - aughts, in a time before social media, wikis and youtube. A lot of these sites, to me anyway, are like mini works of art in html form. The layouts are so quaint and it was a time before javascript really took over, where the cutting edge was flash animation and frames. It's just a shame that so many of these archived pages are broken with dead links and missing graphics, sadly they'll remain incomplete forever but it's still worth checking out.
When I'm not doing that I play video games or watch longplays on youtube.
I remember making a geocities site back in the day, it was a lot of fun. I do kinda miss personal web pages, I mean I know you can create one but it's not the same free-form thing you got with geocities.
Absolutely. Plus back then personal home pages would join web 1.0 social networking things like webrings, bulletin board systems, message boards, and generally link to one another. It made everything feel more connected than it does today wherein the internet is just homogenized into facebook, twitter, reddit and youtube. The wild west days where the internet just felt bigger and more optimistic are gone, sadly.
this is very true and is such a bummer. makes me even more doomer, capitalism recuperates and reifies all.