I didn’t find them on the internet. I didn’t even have internet at home.
I found them in a video game.
The game was Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX.
I absolutely loved that game. Not just the game itself, but the soundtrack - Pennywise, Social Distortion, Deftones and so. I would sometimes leave the game running even when I wasn’t playing, just so the music could play in the background while I was in my room.
I’ve been thinking about making a personal website for a while, and eventually I ended up here, on Neocities. There is something strangely comforting about the idea of having a little corner of the internet that is just… mine.
I miss the old internet. Or at least the idea of it.
More than the way it looked, I miss the way people used it. You went online because you wanted to find something. You wanted to learn something, read someone’s thoughts, talk to people, find a weird little website about something you were interested in, or maybe just share something you’d made yourself.