Thank you for reading ^^

Pangya was such a ride! If I remember, my sister and I mostly played against each other on there. We'd just get schooled against random strangers lol. Still it was really fun, I haven't had as much fun in a golf game since!

thanks for the submission!!

i felt the same way about Facebook, but that's mostly because I was already on Myspace. my siblings all had facebook accounts so I made one really quickly and remember they made fun of me because I spelled my name wrong, but i didn't even notice because i was still using myspace because it was just more fun. That was a really weird transition for me realizing this new social media was going to give you a lot less customization over your profile, but somehow people still preferred it because it was new.

Also waiting for the day when I stop "getting" new technology.

hiya, happy to be here.

Don't Let The Internet Use You

A bit of a rant, but still aligns with the overall theme here. I want to encourage others to think about what they use, and how they use it.

When I made Catscape Navigators as a project, surfing the web aimlessly and finding interesting stuff was a novelty for me. Fast forwards a few years later and while it's not what I do all the time (it's good to have a circle of sites to regularly attend to), it definetly feels a lot more normal now. I'm not going to ever go back to 'scrolling', though.

Great article, welcome to the forums.

I know I said when I joined here that I will submit something for this event, but life happened and I lost motivation to finish my page. I might finish it someday, but definitely not soon and in time for the deadline. Sorry, y'all.

Anyway, congratulations for everyone who has submitted! Your efforts are commendable.

Congrats Orchid on the anniversary of the site!

I've lurked on and off since I found out about it and finally made an account to congratulate you on the site (I do seem to recall you talking about the site to me somewhere but i couldn't find it so idk if i'm having a schizo moment)

The site is looking great and you've done a cracking job with the software, I almost want to yoink it for my own! I hope you and the site have a good year ahead

thanks for the submission!! i totally feel this. There's a big part of me that wants to get a light phone, but until they figure out a way to produce a dumb-phone with Uber/Lyft, Spotify, and some other necessities, getting detached is really hard.

I finally deleted my LinkedIn, which was the last thing I found myself scrolling, but I feel like I still have urges to replace the scrolling with something

hey no worries we'll catch you on the next one!

hey welcome to the forum and thanks for the kind words! yeah I think I posted the link on sheepishpatio, which i do more reading of than actual posting

and maybe someday I'll open source the code the powers the site but i feel like i'm not quite there yet.

one more day for this too! I'll pick the winner at some point tomorrow.

I'll most likely use a site like this to pick the winner and record it for everyone to see:

https://wheelofnames.com

aaaaaaand here's the video of the results!

https://i.imgur.com/or1fVEa.mp4

i won't post the winner's name to add to the suspense of the video, but a huge THANK YOU to everyone for submitting. hopefully this was fun and can't wait to do it again. i will be sending a PM out to the winner to ask how you'd like to receive your payment and will report back here after that's figured out.

Someone wrote this for the Agora Road January Travelogue. It's not an official submission, but I thought it fit really well with this event's theme so:

Internet Dreams

Quite liked it too.

Being both interested in dreams and the Internet, this was a stellar read. Thanks for posting. I actually kind of tried assigning an 'Internet time' for myself before but had quite a lot of trouble holding onto it. When drawing I often found I need to look for a hand reference, or I had to look up spelling or punctuation when writing. Even if that doesn't count as it is not technically mindless, I've also caught myself developing F5-itis — aka checking the few websites I visit way too often for something new — although I'm fairly sure it's mainly to keep my attention away from a peculiar anime character who has been fogging my mind the last six days.

The image of surfing the World Wide Web discovering new, interesting and strange things is a charming idea, but even outside the realms of 'braindead scrolling on (big tech site name here)', you finding things that aren't useful or you just plain don't care about is a guarantee. It's a little like lucid dreaming, I guess: sometimes you fail at it, sometimes you succeed and discover something great, and sometimes... sometimes you wake up in cold sweat and tears with a 124BPM pulse in the middle of a depraved adrenaline rush.

The money came through. Thank you once again and sorry for having to put you through all that, orchids.