This website isn’t my only venture in HTML. Here’s pretty much every time I dabbled in HTML before the website happened.

My very first time that I tried my hand at HTML was in 2020 on a website called FriendProject. It’s a MySpace clone created in 2008 WAY before the more popular SpaceHey. What’s great about FriendProject is that it supports actual MySpace layout codes and is basically MySpace, but with a different name. Me, alongside two of my Discord friends, made accounts for funsies. From my memory, my profile’s layout was very yellow and I spent hours just putting stamps from DeviantArt onto my bio. We stopped using the website due to the people behind it being bad and it overall having safety issues. I, however, straight up deleted my profile, which I now regret doing. I wish I didn’t because it would’ve been a great time capsule of 12 year old me. The closest I have to seeing my profile is an archive of a search on the WayBack Machine. Here’s a screenshot.

Another one of my HTML tryouts was SpaceHey, the current hip niche social media platform. I think I joined around 2023, when it was rising in popularity. I remember spending hours decorating my profile here too. I just remember my first layout being a Windows XP theme, which is a very popular layout. I think my final theme was a 2000s meme style with a Windows 95 layout? Not sure how to properly describe it, but it was stupid and chaotic. I remember pasting so many CSS codes without style tags and wondering why they didn’t work. Ah, I miss it. One of my artworks was an art trade with someone from there. I deleted my SpaceHey account because of this very website’s existence. “What’s the point of having SpaceHey if I’m gonna have a blog on my website?” I thought. If only I had a screenshot of my profile. Sigh.

In 2024, I briefly returned to SpaceHey. I’m not sure why. I remember making my own custom layout for my website based on my old website’s layout. Alongside that, I made a custom layout based on Jax from The Amazing Digital Circus back when the show was fairly new, which in turn was based on a blinkie made by someone on Tumblr. One user had the layout, which probably remains on their profile to this day. Here’s a screenshot of the theme, made with a layout testing account I made.

Did you know that I had another website before this one? Well, this one wasn’t publicly launched. This was the old, unused name for TakeThatMom!: FunnyFunTimes. I chose it because it was a funny phrase I liked. I didn’t know what the hell I was doing during this phase. I remember trying to not have the site hosted on Neocities in an attempt to make myself more independent, so I tried other free web hosts like InfinityFree, but I came back to Neocities, where I remain as of now. Here’s a screenshot of the only page made for FunnyFunTimes: the index.

Here’s a screenshot of a work in progress version of it.

Here’s the very first HTML test page I made. I remember being so excited about this. The image on the top and bottom right were on my SpaceHey bio.

I considered using Vimeo as my video host, so here’s a test page of that.

And that’s it. Three times I tried my hand at HTML before this website happened. Not very exciting, is it? My current skills are still shitty and I hope to improve in years to come.