The Absolute State of this Web Address, a Most Excellent Treatise About my Personal Home Page; or, The Modern Site of Theseus
Today, we celebrate a record-breaking eight and a half years of nothing happening on this website. Will the situation ever change? Will the situation change... soon...? Maybe.
The site had not strictly been frozen in time since 2018, however most modifications were minor and most additions were inaccessible.
Suddenly, though, in late November 2025, everything changed: I forgot to pay the server bill. And I'm just now getting around to setting things back up.
I think this is what the pros call "SEO optimization", which will hopefully bring my monthly readership from 10 humans and 2500 bots down to 0 humans and 2000 bots.
I've had various websites since the days of Multimania
and Geocities,
but this here one is technically 18 years young.
It was built and rebuilt many times, often privately with pages that never saw the light of day.
At various points, it supported Internet Explorer, had <table> layouts, displayed Flash objects, ran on Wordpress, expressed XHTML, used jQuery, and existed atop various hosts and backends.
In 2026, it rises and shines once more, wading invincibly through stagnation and now even though death!
It continues to exist because I enjoy spending some time here and there working on it. Simple as.
If you enjoy clicking through here—which I hope you do—well, that's just gravy on top of the sundæ.
When I wrote the post preceding this one a long while ago, homepages and blogs were declining. Attention sucking algorithms and heavy psychological manipulation were already entrenched, but few internauts seemed to care. Now, tech giants are really stepping on the "fuck you" pedal and there's a widening public spotlight on these things. Among other reactions (such as simply logging off), I've noticed a growing minority of Internet addicts showing interest in the man-scale Web of yore. During and following the COVID insanity, some efforts have even managed to gain a bit of traction: Wiby, Neocities, Kagi Small Web, Bear Blog, Marginalia, and so on.
Though this little (re)naissance doesn't directly interest me,
I sympathize with anyone who goes out of their way to use technology as a personal outlet.
In my eye, the creation of something utterly insignificant is more respectable than any consumption.
Even just shitposting on social media is better than scrolling through short-form videos.
Unfortunately, I don't remember exactly how I left things prior to the sudden disappearance event a few months ago, so here's what I think someone might notice as new if they had an eidetic memory:
- Existing information has been restructured into the Blotter and Compendium sections. For example, the page I'm writing this text on used to be at /a/index2017/, and the about me page was split into several Compendium entries.
- New pages have been created in the Compendium. Some aren't published yet.
- Over a decade of revolving door content is being revived into the autonomous sites (/a/) directory. The LettrGuessr game is the most recent finished example. There's not always a path to find them yet, and some aren't published yet either.
- Lots of pages were tested and tweaked to work on a vertical screen (phone), but there's still work to do there.
- The favicon has been updated to be larger than 16x16.
- Audio on all pages has been switched to not autoplay, and to have visible controls.
Additionally, I've fixed the Atom news feed, now available at /feed/ or as a link somewhere else on this page. If you'd like to keep up with any website online, a feed reader tends to be the best way to do that.
Future plans include finishing a good amount of unfinished content, publishing that, and making all available content discoverable in some way.
This is ya boi Zetanor, signing out.
If you are ever afraid, just remember that I love you.