First Post

Hello individual on the internet!! Thank you so much for taking the time to visit this little space on the web ^w^

This is the first blog post on my brand new website! I plan to use this space to post my art, maybe things happening in my life and possibly my other interests too, including animated media, video games, nature, amongst other things.

As of writing (April 10th-14th, 2025) this site is pretty rough and very much a work-in-progress, as I'm only just learning HTML and CSS while I'm building it. However, you can look forward to seeing CelticWerewolf1999 change and evolve over time. If you're reading this in the future, here's screenshot of what the site looked like as I wrote this post:

Screenshot of the CelticWerewolf1999
homepage in it's early days. It's a modern and streamlined but somewhat plain site in dark mode (The background is
a dark grey and the header is a lighter grey). The navigation bar has "Home" and "About"
buttons, the former of which the text and button outline is highlighted in yellow. The header reads
"CelticWerewolf1999 Homepage". Below is a half-body artwork featuring a chibi version of the website's
creator.

My aim with this project is to create a site that looks and feels like one you'd find on the 2000's internet. As an individual born in the late 90's and grew up during the 2000's, I have fond memories of surfing the web throughout that decade. The internet, as well as computers and tech in general, just had a great sense of mystery and wonder to it back then, at least to me anyway.

Now, part of that might be because I was a kid at the time, and I'm probably looking back with rose-tinted glasses to a certain extent. While that is certainly partly true, I do genuinly feel that the internet has lost that, for a lack of a better word, "magic" it once had.

The internet of the 2000's allowed for people to express themselves with highly customisable user pages, like on MySpace and 2000's/early 2010's YouTube channels. Children (like myself at the time) could engage with the web too, using sites aimed "specifically" at them, be they Flash game collections or entire online worlds such as Neopets, Toontown, Club Penguin, Webkinz, amongst many others. In short, while it may not have been perfect (as nothing is in this world), the the 2000's internet was a bold and liberating place, enabeling the average person to freely express themselves and escape to wonderous and inovative virtual worlds.

Photo of a well-loved Webkinz Lil'Kinz Alley Cat plushie sitting on a table with a
yellow tablemat with simple, stylised white leaves printed on it. The plush cat is in a sitting position facing the front.
Most of her head, body, back legs and tail are made from ginger eyelash/string fabric with black and yellow stripes. The
snout, between the eyes, chest, belly, front legs and back feet are made from a white minky fabric that's seen better days.
Her eyes are heterocrmic; the left blue and the right green with small black eye brows. Her nose and the insides of her ears
are pink and her whiskers are made from white string. She wears a red, textured ribbon around her neck with a gold bell on it. — My Webkinz Lil'Kinz Alley Cat, who I named Puss Puss. I bought her when I was nine and carried her everywere with me.

I, (and I'm sure many others, especially fellow Neocities users) believe that these feelings of and experiences on the internet have been lost over the past decade and especally within the last several years, as a result of the censorship, corpratization and sanitation of our online spaces. From billionaires corrupting social media sites to generative AI taking over our search engines and spreading misinformation, I have become very tired of the centralised internet and the popular social media sites. Although I'll still be using social media, specifically Bluesky, Tumblr and YouTube for videos, this site will be my HQ of sorts. If anything happens to the aformentioned and/or other sites I'm on, I should still be here :3

As I am begining to build this site, I am using Blake Watson's HTML for people .I'd strongly recomend checking out this awesome, free resource, especially to those who have very little, if any experience working in HTML and CSS (though it's mainly focused on the former, hence the name).

Thanks again for reading! I look foward to posting again soon. See ya on the flip side! ;)

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