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[oldmurray34]

Hey there, everyone! I am oldmurray34, murra, shotgunguy, shotgun or shoty and I am almost 30

Got access to the forum like two days ago, but got a little bit carried away and spent hours customizing my profile lol
But ye, I am always open for chats, I do enjoy tech stuff, especially when it comes to refurbishment and sustainability (not happy with current tech industry). Open-source is the best source 

I also enjoy media, into which you can really sink your teeth when it comes to analysis, no matter if it's good or not. The worst thing the art can be in my opinion is being neutral, bland and boring, with nothing to say and nothing to show. Of course it's not that simple, but I am not going to write my whole manifesto in a welcome post unless...

Anyways, will be glad to hang out here with you beautiful people

[camelwize]

Hey all. I'm Camel and I'm pretty excited to be here. I'm 33 at this point and I feel like my relationship with social media is as unhealthy as can be, spend way too much time scrolling Reddit and YouTube, and this year I want to put a stop to that.

I'm old enough to have grown up with the small web. When the internet was personal websites, blogs, forums, recipe sites, fansites, goofy stories and fanfictions, flash games.

These days we've all been scooped up and dropped into the algorithmic slop machines that are the big social media hubs (YT, FB, Insta, Twitter, TikTok, etc). We're drip-fed dose after dose of dopamine hits from the constant never-ending feed, kept hooked so we never leave the site or app.

It drives me nuts and while I think these things are fine in moderation, I wanna stop spending all of my day glued to two sites. I want to remember how I used to use the web. I want to go back to that.

So that's why I decided to make an indie web site, and also why I'm joining here (god damn have I missed forums! I'm still on a few others but most of my favourite forums died long ago :()

Side note but I saw mention of a tarot guild further up and just wanted to say hell yeah. Would super join that.

[kringle]

Hello all! I'm kringle, mid-twenties weirdo, chronic sketchbook-carrier, and irl fumbler aficionado. I'm super pumped to be here!!! 

I've been browsing this forum w/out an account for a good year or so but have recently decided to put more energy into this side of the web what with the new year and all, I'm hoping 2 meet some cool peeps and learn about ways of online community building that my smooth brain hasn't thought of before. the thread on using RSS feeds in the modern day got me hella thinking, I should deff be tryna make some newsletters for my people!

But yeah my main shtick is I love drawing. I've been doing it seriously since highschool and while I don't do it professionally (yet) I'm pretty locked in abt it. I try to put in an hour a day when I can, and rn I'm trying to get better at watercolors since I do mostly digital. I adore drawing fun character interactions and using bright color pallets (green is my favorite color!) in my work. TTRPGS how I owe you my heart and soul for being a vehicle for fun character designs. Currently I'm working on a 5 page fan-comic for a zine, and i'm pretty proud of it! When I'm able to share it I'll put it on my site somewhere.

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I also love being in fandom with my friends and shipping characters like its college level chemistry. Meeting fellow creatives who have the same brain-worms as me is one hell of a drug. Homestuck is my one true love but i also really like arcane, and I'm still not over baldurs gate three or jojo's bizzare adventure. My new years resolution is 2 make a(n at least semi-active) forum for my fandom peeps so they don't have to deal with socmed bullshit or discord spyware shenanigans to froth at the mouth abt their fav stuff.

Excited to meet new people and make new friends!!! Cheers everyone! 

fun fact: when i'm bored working at events ill bring lollypops so i can pretend i'm chainsmoking a cigarette and then ill do a funny hard-broiled detective voice.

[cirro]

hello all! i'm cirro, he/him, 27, from canada.

i deleted most social media aside from like tumblr about a decade ago and am slowly getting back into connecting with people online. i'm mostly sticking with forum sites because they're what i've always been used to, and because most other social media sites seem to be mostly kids nowadays. no hate to them, of course, but i'm more interested in connecting with other adults who remember the golden days of tech and the internet. i've never had tiktok or instagram and never plan to, but i miss piczo and dailybooth desperately.

i love vocaloid and jpop, i'm a furry and a scalie, and i adore the sixth generation of video game consoles and handhelds (gamecube, ps2, xbox, gba, dreamcast, etc.). farming games and rpgs are my favourite. i love most cartoons and anime from the early 00s. i'm an all-around nerd and proud!

i used to mess around with html and css back in my piczo and tumblr days, but i'm only recently getting back into it, so my website is a work in progress at the moment :) right now, it's just a single page that's a mockup of myspace. i can talk forever about my favourite pieces of tech: windows xp and blackberry phones.

looking forward to being pals with everyone!!

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Hi there!

I just had to reach out—your website absolutely blew me away! The art, the vibe, the sheer uniqueness of it all—it's so inspiring, and I'm genuinely thrilled I stumbled across it.

I'm Justin, and I'm usually the quiet type online. I don't post much or put myself out there; I am digitally shy I think -  most of my time on the internet is spent reading, learning, watching YouTube deep dives, and quietly tinkering away on my own projects. But your site and the small Internet has lit something up in me, and I couldn't resist saying hello and sharing a little about what I'm up to.

I've been a netizen since I was a kid, It think my first internet experiences were with wireless internet in its earliest forms on amateur radio called packet radio where I got to watch a live bbs light up and messages magically pass over a terminal system!  I've owned my domain since around 2013.  For years it was just a simple static page, or it had a little about me and last year it was just a page with a neural network background—nothing fancy, resume and some links. Three days ago, though, I finally gave it a proper overhaul to embrace the small web (or "Smol web") spirit: more personality, more charm, and a real playground for experimentation. I'm still learning the ins and outs of the movement, but I'm all in.

I run a Gemini server and a Gopher server alongside the regular site, and—because I can't resist tinkering—I even built my own little protocol out of pure curiosity called Sky Protocol. It's over on GitHub. Open for whoever wants to pick it up and use it. There is a server and terminal browser. That's the hacker (old term for tinkerer) in me: I love poking at things, seeing what breaks, what works, and building something new just because I can. I'm also a huge Starlink fan—anything that gets more people connected excites me. I just love the internet and being connected. So yeah, I am a huge geek.

Here are a few screenshots of how my site looks right now:

- https://imgur.com/TM1ZHbj
- https://imgur.com/3Bm260r
- https://imgur.com/a/2uWZ3y9#hyfxXaq
- https://imgur.com/a/2uWZ3y9#ZguLLib

(It’s got a little groundhog mascot as a playful nod to Gopher—still makes me smile every time I see it.)

I know your focus is beautiful, artistic HTML, and I have to admit I’m not there yet (zero HTML knowledge, but I’m eager to learn!). My comfort zone is the command line and Linux, and I lean on AI tools to help bring my ideas to life (RIP Adobe Muse—you were the best). I just love crafting experiences that feel interactive and welcoming.

I also make original AI-assisted videos—only about five short ones so far, but each can take days of tweaking and experimenting. At my core, I'm a futurist, transhumanist (H+), and e/acc believer—I’m rooting hard for AI to uplift humanity. Yet I’m also a fierce privacy advocate who misses the wild, creative magic of the 90s internet. Contradictory? A little, maybe, but to me it’s about accelerating toward abundance while keeping the human-scale, autonomous spirit alive.

Curiosity is my fuel: new tech, mysteries, anime, board games, science, rockets—anything that sparks wonder. I'll step way outside my comfort zone if it means learning something new. Offline, I love the simple stuff—hanging out with friends, tech meetups, club events, and tearing around on my motorcycle.

Anyway, I could go on, but I’ll stop here! Your space just felt so welcoming that I wanted to share a bit of mine. Thanks for building something that genuinely lights people up—it's motivating as hell.

Hope to hear from you! 
Justin


Here are some screenshots from my page.
I put a few crystals on here nodding to Melonland! You really inspired me and I had a lot of fun making this page be me!
I wanna put a closed down thing on here for Mondays to, but figured I was being a little silly for doing that. Ha!
 

[Sam]

Hello everyone! 

My name is Sam and I'm the webmaster of Sam's solar system, a silly website where I like to ramble about my interests and post anything that I believe other users online might find useful, I suck at graphic design and I'm very amateur to coding and completely self-taught so I'm really looking forward to meeting cool new people that could help me improve my site 

Some of my favorite pages I have added to my site are Cool YouTube videos, https://samsolarsystem.neocities.org/Danganronpa2x2, Slime Rancher tips & My graphics collection so if you want to beigin exploring my site and are unsure where to go then I recomend checking those out 

Some of my main interests are outer space, stickers, Hollow Knight, Cuphead, The Stanley Parable, Undertale, Deltarune, Kirby, Will Wood, Oingo Boingo, Tally Hall, The Stupendium and a bunch of other things listed in my About me so if you are down to talk about any of those things then contact me! 

[stellarfieldanomaly]

Hey!

I am a photographer among other things and I go by Alan or stellarfieldanomaly or stellarfieldphotography!

Lately I have been taking pictures like this:


I found out about melonland from my partner @monsterrobotics! I have grown extremely frustrated with modern social media and it's total capture by corporate interests and puritanicalism, as a result I have had a growing desire to engage with an older social environment online and melonland seems like a good fit! I have never really used forums before outside of lurking, so please bear with me!

I'm also designing my own portfolio website via neocities, but it's slow going because HTML/CSS is my eternal nemesis. This is what I'm working on so far thought!:





I'm looking forward to my time in melondland and I can't wait to meet you all!

[jcbstmp]

halloooo !!! i am jcbstmp (jacob stump) (like patrick stump? eh? eh???), but most people just call me jacob :D
i joined the melonland forum cuz im friends with da king himself on spacehey and i thought i might as well check this place out!! i wasnt around in prime forum era, so this will be a totes cool way to see whut it was like :3

hello world ! i am the youngest person EVER ! 

[goat]

i already posted an intro thread but anyway

hi im goat - also new here :3

my interests are cursed mashups, shrek && nicolas cage among many many things

this whole website is sensory overload but oh man i love that about it :D

especially the everybody webpage lol, that's just anarchic af XDD

anyway im v happy to be here! <333

[menecimmeb]

Hey all!

My name is Matt, I'm in my 30's and working in higher education as a developer. It sounds like I'm just as sick of the current state of the web as everyone else here.

I'm really into movies, live shows, reading, programming, and miniatures. Right now I'm looking to get back into painting, and game development.

Looking forward to spending some time back on forums!

@stellarfieldanomaly Is that the green line? I think we might be neighbors haha.

[stellarfieldanomaly]

@stellarfieldanomaly Is that the green line? I think we might be neighbors haha.

Haha it is, small world huh? Are you also in Saint Paul? Feel free and PM me so we don't clog up the greetings page!