Who dis...? IT ME !!! ( n i n o a )

Ah, a fellow internet wanderer. I see you've stumbled into my ~domain~. Welcome...

Hello my pals....My name is Ninoa. The one and only, as far as i'm aware. Welcome to domain. Nice to e-meet you. feel free to look around. It's been a long time since I've added to this site but here's a slight edit just to renew my internet existence real quick (5/19/24) I don't use social media because 1) i have major internet addiction enough as is, and i don't need to start mixing my IRL life in with that, and 2) algorithms and whatnot are major mindcontrol territory and I try to minimize my exposure to endless scrolling feeds as much as possible, especially when they're controlled by sketchy mega corps trying to enslave you to consumerism and manipulate elections. It's tough being a gen z- millenial cusp, artsy individual without an instagram, but this is how I make do. I think this site is one way to still express myself creatively. It's yet another of my severely neglected hobbies....started the site in 2020 and only getting back on top of making any progression now in 2024.

Anywayssssss, I'm excited to finally make my childhood dream come true of having my own website, made from scratch. I always admired those old school myspace pages and later tumblr pages where people get fancy with the customization, and of course, the OG geocities websites !! I feel lucky to have experienced that era of internet. I suppose you could say I'm an OG e-girl or whatever...lol. My online friend group ironically referred to ourselves as "avant-teens." This site is very much an ongoing work in progress as I'm still learning html and css with the aide of internet guides, amidst other irl pursuits. Part of the vision / motivation for this site is my desire to have an internet presence of some kind that is apart from social media platforms. Social media is no good, imo, as it has a bunch of detrimental psychological effects: [insert the myriad of studies and arguments here that I'm sure you're already aware of as an internet user yourself. boomers need not apply]. Moreover, I think that I'd prefer to have my internet use be more about creating rather than consuming content. With newsfeeds and endless clickholes of the recommended videos sidebars and all those kinds of features that keep you hooked the result is a form of addiction like all those 70s sci-fi novels predicted, resembling the energy very much of a cow being fattened by one of those feeder bag muzzle things they put on mules. Summoning the frankfurt school, wya, I'm tryna awaken these sheep and other barnyard animals. An article will be written about this topic too when I get around to it. I dream of a bunch of hip avant-teens and e-pals and creatives of various scenes to band together and organize some sort of movement...a mass exodus....FUCC THE ZUCC. Imagine a renaissance of online creativity and free expression away from the claws of those silicon valley lizard brains and the influence of insidious algorithms. We've got to band together tho, bc admittedly this shit is not as user friendly. But here I am, a coding n00b, figuring this shit out somehow regardless. DiY or DiE. I have some vague background in this html stuff from early days as a middle schooler customizing my tumblr themes, as well as some flash animation stuff I used to do in late elementary school, but that's about it. I would love to see a renaissance of this kind of internet expression. People really just go for convenience and the desire for more exposure for posts when it comes to why people opt for regular social media outlets over this kind of homemade site...it's also just because they aren't aware of this other way or they figure no one's using it. I hope to keep this lost art alive and I encourage my peers to quit sleepin on this !! Really it's another form of resistance to The Man and The System....I mean really...how radical can your Twitter Activsim really be if the site is owned by Elon Musk [laugh emoji]. Maybe we should start a neocities coding club and get some hype going again...

^ A recent pic (2024)

^ An older pic...like 2020..?