electric.gay

ae@rainmachina:~/mirror$ cd ghost
ae@rainmachina:~/mirror/ghost$ sudo ./self > smlcra.png
ae@rainmachina:~/mirror/ghost$ Printing...

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about electric.gay

i'm ele. i created this website because i was having a lot of fun learning html and css
turned out to be a great place for me to host and spread awareness about other things i care about, like lost media.

    about me

  • age: basically 30
  • sexuality: queer
  • gender: queer
  • location: submerged
  • politics: anti-authoritarian
  • coolest trait: committing to the bit
  • brain: neurodiverse

    hobbies

  • bullet journalling
  • writing
  • painting
  • meditating
  • digital restoration
  • games a little bit
  • cute little website

    playing

  • super hang on
  • wylde flowers
  • portal 2
  • puzzle bobble
  • metal slug X

    thoughts

  • girls ?
  • nutritional yeast (in bucket)
  • how evaporation work
  • soooo teeth have skin?
  • is fog a little cloud
  • why do i have to ask for job
  • i'm so hungry

Why here?

I signed up in 2021, after coming across Neocities sites in Cloudhiker. I'd exited social media the year before, and I think I was touched and inspired... but I'm not entirely sure. But my interest solidified later, after a peculiar experience.

It was 2022, and I was digging around for lost MIDIs. I was looking to browse a copy of the Geocities archive; I knew certain resources were in it, but without downloading the entire thing, I couldn't know for sure. Idly, I browsed the One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age blog, which posts screenshots of homepages from the archive every 20 minutes. I scrolled down the first page, of pages posted in the last few hours, when my heart almost stopped.

This was what I saw:



It's not much to look at, right? Not particularly alarming. Just a Coca-Cola fan page.

Some few years before, a woman named Jackie hosts me as guest. As we talk, she asks if I'd care to see her modest Coca-Cola collection. When I agree, I have no clue what I'm about to see: an entire floor styled like a diner, with retro rugs, paintings, pin ups, ton upon ton of old Coca-Cola merchandise - bottles, jukeboxes, tables, booths, freezers... it blew my mind.

As I stared at that page, I stewed in that mix of awe and denial only synchronicity can provoke. But soon it was impossible to deny: this was the woman I knew!

At that moment, the blog had been posting every 20 minutes for 9 years straight; 11 years on, as I write this, it continues. Even posting every 20 minutes, a screenshot of all 381,934 pages will take 14 years. In that moment, I thought: 'What are the chances?'

What were the chances that over 14 years, I might open up that blog in the right 3-hour timespan to see someone I know on the front page?

Setting aside the cosmic coincidence of caring to look at all, the odds start somewhere around 1 in 38194 (or about 0.0026%). On December 28th, Jackie's site was posted. 5 hours later, I updated this site.

Since then, I've been determined to make this website one way or another. My presence is a symptom of great coincidence, and a bit of superstition. If it's a sign, I'll take it, and if it's not, well; it's not so bad to be lost.

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To drowse is human; to dream is divine.

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Whats new?

  • made the site accessible on mobile. let me know if there's any issues with viewing the site!

To do

Dirty work

  • fix scrollbar appearance
  • add reduced motion options

Content

  • link RINI's sheet music
  • collect additional bounties for:
    • alvin777
    • SMP
    • NIFTY members

Features

  • create post system using 11ty
  • customise music player playlist
  • highlight the music player on load
  • create auto updating RSS sheet
  • add and embed status.cafe

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@ - Cartoon Network Midnight Run - 6.12.2001