I hate what the modern internet has become. It bothers me. It's all just social media platforms that can be fucked with by any average idiot with an internet connection and a digital device. Forums are dead, what ones are still active are just vast echo chambers of groupthink where the "weirdoes" who don't fit in are ridiculed until they leave, or do anything that get sthe moderators to ban them. Everything is about making a buck anymore - no more "passion projects" - people just want to hustle for everything. People are too lazy to use a search engine anymore, let alone any search engine but Google. People whine and complain about all this stuff - and do nothing - except me, I'm doing something about it, I'm hoping, that by 2026, I can start to truly be free of all this *modern* internet bullshit, and continue my meager online existence, with this website as my place to blabber about what I want to, and not get into stupid fights with corporate fanboys, political pundits, and man-culture morons. And being as I'm learning networking now on a deeper level, I don't like the lack of security of having so much personal information on an un-vetted corporate server.

I spent 10 years on YouTube and guitar forums fighting with Indie/Post-Rock guys about using Offsets for my own style of music which I unintentionally cheapened by putting it under a banner of "pop-metal-meets-grunge". Because you had to have a stupid marketable genre to advertise your musical preferences and capabilities to find a place in a band, or in a music scene. I got sick of "keeping up with the joneses" by buying whatever new models I felt suited me when I was perfectly capable of building whatever crazy shit I wanted to in my own apartment, shed, or garage as the case may be.

I spent nearly 20 years fighting with so-called Nerds, Geeks, and Tech Bros about modern computers, vintage computers, preferences of O/S, whose O/S is better, only to spend 2 1/2 years sampling the three major OSes + one opensource Legacy remake and find in the end, all of them have their pros and cons, and most of these Hentai Obsessed Wookies were as full of shit as the guitar guys were. I argued for years about internet security using DOS, when I know better than they do, and feeling belitted because my hardware was older but every bit as good to me as their brand new $8000 Ryzen Nine Core Threadripper.

I wasted a lot of time hanging with political forums, rant boards, Reddit (if that's the voice of the internet, we're in real trouble), got permabanned, got driven away, got a lot of bad advice from people trying to be "experts" and not handling it well when I called em' out on it, if I chose to. Seriously, I'm fucking spent. Time to get back to WHY I loved the ORIGINAL internet, the Tim Berners Lee internet, the internet of bored Generation X college students making text filled websites about trivial crap like Atari or Jazzmasters, and not taking it so bloody seriously. Before it became some big social club about who has spent the most on the newest overpriced and shiny widget. CreepingNet was NEVER about that.

That's why I'm here, coding in HTML, making my own pictures, using A.I. the way I want to, doing what I want. Talking about what I want. Because that's the thing. This isn't the place to flock to in droves because it makes you cool, it's the cool little hole in the wall you just found via search engine somehow. Like that weird little HTML website you found in 1996. Maybe we don't always agree. But nobody's putting a gun to your head and making you read it either. Plus, just having to read keeps idiots away I've found. Most people on (anti)social media whine and complain about huge walls of text - my trademark - while I embrace them, I embrace detail, after all, that's what the internet was for, the free exchange of information. E-mail is such an abstract I can just block and ignore the discourse with people who just want to cause trouble. So nice to go back to that.