Neocai - she/her - 22 years old

Hi! I'm the webmaster of Neocai. I am a college freshman majoring in computer science! Though I didn't know any HTML before working on this site, I hope to become better through it. My hobbies are gaming, watching streams, and brazilian jiu jitsu. I'd probably be best described as an overgrown adult. I was raised in a really funny household where I didn't learn much! Can we bring home-ec class back plz. But, you know you can only blame your situation and the place/people you came from for so long! So I've been slowly learning what it means to be human. I recently learned to drive at 21, passed my driving test at 22. Went to college out of highschool, failed, Took a few years off from college, went back and switched majors a few times! I enjoy simple things in life. I deal with social anxiety but when I don't I think I'm pretty likable and funny :3. Though I have anxiety I wouldn't consider myself shy! I'm pretty loud when I do speak. I'm also an digital artist. This site is themed to be MSpaint style and funny and nostalgic so plz don't judge my art skills off this. Though I do consider my site to be a long term therapeutic art piece for me. It's also just my little comfy corner I can go to when I want a break from the new and impersonal internet.

I've been on the internet since I could read. I was born in 2000 and because of that I have many fond memories of being in elementary school having easy days where we went to the computer lab and played on Starfall at my young, impressionable age and Poptropica a few years later. From an early age I was given a laptop so even outside of school I was a computer nerd and I'd do play alone instead of playing with friends or neighbors. Two of my earliest PC games I remember playing outside of educational games at school were Disney's Toontown Online and Transformice. I have very fond memories of playing Toontown for hours and hours a day in middle school. I was gifted a drawing tablet as well and definitely put out tons of cringey art somewhere spread across 6 different Deviantart accounts, probably. I was active on tons of forums, played lots of games on Newgrounds, pretty much every corner of the internet I was on. I remember one summer during middle school spending pretty much all of my waking hours on my laptop. Probably around 14 hours a day for 3 months.
After having some things happen and having a lot of time to think I realized I was doing my childhood/extremely important development period a huge diservice. I took a big step back from the internet and only casually gamed on my consoles or my laptop and kept up with social media (Tik Tok didn't exist at the time!) but I was lucky enough to get a PC in 2020ish and form a better relationship with myself and my internet usage, and properly monitor my addictive personality as an adult. I've been really good! I think it's common especially here on Neocities to view the internet as we knew it before to be this grand and beautiful place we can never get back to. The internet, in my opinion, has never been better. Though a lot of the things many of us and I loved then are now shut down and defunct, I cherish my memories even more. The best part about the internet (and what probably brought a lot of us here to Neocities) is the ability to make it what you want and publish what you want. More people around the world have access to the internet and computers more than ever and I'm extremely grateful for what the internet has led me to. I've learned more knowledge, seen more memes, spoken to more people than my ancestors would ever in their lifetime, multiple lifetimes even. My life is my own here and I've been countlessly reincarnated on all corners of the internet.

It may go without saying, but this is my own space and social media. If you are expecting me to say everything kindly, with a filter, or only speak in a way that appeases everyone you won't really like my site. I don't really care if I said something you don't like and I don't care for internet discourse.