Hi everyone! Welcome to my small corner of the internet!
Why did I make this site? Well I already had a blog up and running on Wordpress, but I didn't like the way it looked. It looked way too corporate looking and I didn't have any real control over that aspect of it. Everything was handled by the Wordpress software. Also, I had always liked the way that older Web 1.0 sites looked and then I remembered Neocities. I had a friend who had made a site on Neocities and I thought I would try it out. I thought the HTML would be hard to learn at first but it really isn't. It's deceivingly easy actually. Not only that but building this site has rekindled my love for computers and the digital world. I haven't felt this nerdy since I switched to Linux a few years ago.
So what is this site for? I created it so I could host my blog and publish my new book (both in the top bar btw). Writing that book made me realize how much I loved writing and inspired me to start blogging. Mr. Rogers once said that he considered the space between the viewer and the television to be sacred ground. He saw the huge potential for good in the format of TV, he also saw it being used and abused by people who didn't realize how much good it could do as he had. That is how I feel about the internet. So much good can and has come out of it. It is a truly beautiful invention. But it is also being abused heavily by many of its users today. I think the big tech corporations are a big part of that. I hope in someway, The Orange Star and the random crap I post here could do some good. I hope someone reads the words I send into the ether and thinks about them. Maybe I will change some minds. Maybe this site could be a small part of a new golden age for the Internet. Or maybe I am tooting my own horn too much. Either way, building this site has been really fun. I can't wait to see what the future holds for it! God bless you all! - Joey
