I started my neocities after a night of being damn frustrated at cardd.
I got on, tried to make a tiny website with simple html and no css (and a button with an onclick that I didn't understand).
I remember coming across 'windchimes' website (I think that's what it was called, it's sadly not been updated in years.) and getting even angrier that I could never accomplish what they did.
I abandoned this site after writing some not so mentally stable things that got me.. harassed.
Badly.
A lot happened in my life. More than had ever happened before happened in the next 2 months. I got a new partner, started to live on my own as she moved in with me, finally taken control of the trauma that had been plaguing me for years, and so,
In febuary I decided to come back to web development, but decided to go with neocities instead. I do not regret the choice but if I had a choice at the start, I would've much preferred starting on neocities as I did.
Neocities will always have a special place in my heart, even if I wasn't here for very long. It ignited the passion I have to roselilyqueen.org, a site I work on each and every single day. I dedicate my time to try to share art, inform, make random machine n charts n projects n stuff, and that is because of neocities and the community it fosters. This is something that will carry with me my whole life.
I don't want this to sound like I'm only here to to promote my site; you can visit or not. This is more a thank you, after how much I've learned when it comes to webdev, how mesmerized I am, how I code for hours and hours on end because of the very things that started here, I'm greatful. It puts a smile on my face when I come back here to see remnants of my code still in my nekoweb site, like the clockscript; the first script I made myself.
I don't know if this is allowed or counts as advertising (if neocities wants me to take the iframe down, I will do so): but because of how far I've come, I made this page an embed of my nekoweb site, which seems to work fine. I thought it would be rude to straight up redirect. It's up to you if you'd like to see where I've gone. As long as you know where it started.