While this website started in October of 2022,
my journey with HTML/CSS and web development
actually started February of that same year.



... In an entirly different website. Yes! This isn't my first venture, and you can still view my old site if you're curious!

I don't quite remember how I learnt about Neocities or current personal websites, but all I know is I was disillusioned with social media and my social media usage. I was so, so sick of it and constantly posting about wanting to leave it all behind. I picked up html, inspired by a friend who just started a Neocities too, and went my merry way to make my very first website!

But it had a problem you see in a lot of Neocities websites. An abundance of shiny graphics and no real substance or content. Nostalgiamining. I didn't really know what to put out into the web back then, I just wanted to get away from the rest of the internet, suffocating as it was to me. I remember reading that one famous essay on Nostalgiamining (you know the one) and ruminated on it. After a lot of thought I wanted to make something more, so I abandoned that website and started this one around October.

The beginning was... rough. I didn't know what I was doing at all so everything broke as soon as you viewed it in a slightly different resolution, many of the pages looked awful, but little by little I've made this place into something I can look at and say Yeah. I'm happy with it.

I'm not yet satisfied and there's so much I want to do. But FOOFOAI is very special to me and currently my biggest outlet for my thoughts and creativity and love. I don't regret for a second deleting instagram, twitter, tumblr, and starting this website- It is one of the best decisions I've made.