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Hey there weary web traveler, you have stumbled into my digital garden. You can call me Mae.
This is my personal page built from ancient web magic. It is a mix of me and my experiences, arts and interest, and whatever I feel like.
Take a step away from the social media doom. Everyone is welcome here and free to be themselves - just be nice.

"Approximately 114 million years ago, a remarkable event unfolded on Earth. As the sun rose, the very first flower blossomed... If there had been a conscious observer, they would have been awestruck by this transformation."
- Eckhart Tolle

Dear Visitor,

Before anything else, I want to say this: building personal sites like this is therapeutic for me. It is a way of taking back a part of the internet that was stolen from regular people. The web used to belong to us -- messy, weird, expressive, different -- and I believe we need that again.

If you are new to the world of retro-web personal sites, I am glad you found me.

When I was a kid, I spent hours surfing the net. Google did not work the way it does now, MySpace was not even around yet, and everything felt scattered across pages made by average people just sharing themselves or the things they liked. Ads barely existed. We linked each other's pages, adopted art and gifs from friends, and shared links so people could be found.

Eventually directories, neighborhoods, and webrings formed to help group common interests and bring visitors around. We used guestbooks or direct emails to leave messages, or gave little awards to pages we liked.

That version of the internet was therapeutic too -- like building a digital diary or scrapbook. Visiting someone else's random page felt exciting, like exploring a tiny world they made by hand. And even though we had similar pieces, no two sites were ever the same. They were personal, unique, expressive. Honestly, I think it was the most human we ever were online before everything got flattened into sameness.

Then came YouTube, Facebook, and the whole corporate takeover. Suddenly every place you go looks the same, feels the same, and apparently everyone is exactly the same -- which I do not believe for a second. But that is what happens when corporations hijack a space that was meant for people.

So I encourage anyone else to do the same: build your own things, be yourself, and take back your space.

<3 Mae

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