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My very first post...

And a proclamation of how websites tend to be nowadays compared to the old web, because why not?

I'm still in the first steps of this website creation thing. I do have some background in programming, but I never had interest before in doing anything front-end related.

I always liked drawing, coding, and different kind of designing, but whenever I thought of websites, it just didn't click. Although, everything changed when I first met the Old Web (not very sure if "very first" is the best term for something this nostalgic). I felt truly passionate, the more and more I navigated it.

Quoting the Culture Industry Wikipedia page we have that "The term culture industry (German: Kulturindustrie) was coined by the critical theorists Theodor Adorno (1903–1969) and Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), and was presented as critical vocabulary in the chapter "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception",[1] of the book Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), wherein they proposed that popular culture is akin to a factory producing standardized cultural goods—films, radio programmes, magazines, etc.—that are used to manipulate mass society into passivity.[2] Consumption of the easy pleasures of popular culture, made available by the mass communications media, renders people docile and content, no matter how difficult their economic circumstances are.[2] The inherent danger of the culture industry is the cultivation of false psychological needs that can only be met and satisfied by the products of capitalism; thus Adorno and Horkheimer perceived mass-produced culture as especially dangerous compared to the more technically and intellectually difficult high arts."

Saying that, my point is that websites nowadays are a cheap product of the Culture Industry, and people who have been working in make this Old Web a thing, are the actual artists who are fighting against it, or something similar to that.

Of course, I won't be the boomer trying to imply that "Now bad, back then good" kind of speech. Still, I like to appreciate the best that each era has to offer, even if it's from 20 years before I was born (I love playing Atari games). Every now and then there are some masterpieces that define eras but still feel... atemporal? Even some recent stuff we see can already feel like classics of some sort, like Undertale or Homestuck (These are still recent in my mind, I hope I'm not that wrong... I just googled and they're from more than 10 years ago. Oh my goodness).

Well, I feel like I'm already getting lost. So, to not lose you too I'll just conclude that I like how artistic and vivid each one of you make the internet be. Thank you for existing, thank you for being here, and thank you for reading the stuff I have on my mind.