written: 23/10/23
last updated: 16/1/25
Lately I've been surfing the web and I've been finding alot of posts of people bashing others for "stealing code". Whatever that's supposed to mean, people can be so vague these days. After reading this one post though I've felt very unmotivated in continuing this site. To summarize what it said, don't make a neocities page without knowing how to code. I'm not really a fan of that idea, but of course I'm not. I don't know how to code.
the way I see things, like, html and css and all that is its own language. Sure it uses english words, but that means nothing. Just because I know english doesn't mean I know how to code. When I was first enrolled in french immersion, they didn't teach us verb conjugations based on pronouns like "j'ai mange, tu as mange, il a mange, nous avons mange..." We did not learn that stuff. We would just copy what we heard and translated. If little me saw a sentence like "J'ai alle au supermarche hier soir" I would translate it to "I went to the superstore last night". I would just remember what I saw and when I wanted to write "I went to [place]" I would say "J'ai alle a [blank]". I did't know what the hell an auxilary was, or that verb endings changed based off of pronoun, or any of this stuff because I would just copy what I heard from others to build my own thing. I learned how to conjugate verbs in 8th grade and now I can form better sentences in french.
what I was trying to get at before I got distracted is that copying can help people better than others. Not everyone learns by meticulously inspecting a page or youtube videos or all this random shit people seem to be doing. Sure, I would be very upset if I spent alot of time working on an original site for someone to copy the entire thing and just paste it into their directory, but it's really not.. the end of the world if I gently take your one container element with a scrollbox and edit the styling to how I like it. I don't understand why people are.. against this.. But one day maybe I'll be an elder who understands all this "you damn kids coming on my neocities site and stealing everyones damn code!" ruckus because Come On, you can't expect people to learn a new language just to make a site. it's not textbook definition gatekeeping but if you say any more you'll be edging the poor thing
I really just wanted to say this somewhere. that's why I made a neocities, there are some things that friends on social media really Don't give a shit about. I have my own personal site now. Eugh, I wonder if when i'm like 40 i'll look back on this and tell myself I was an edgy POS 14 year old. I just don't feel like sillytyping right now, I want people to understahd what I'm saying if anyone's reading. Andim sure ouwouldnt appeedcuate Me talking like Yhis. would you..
edit as of 16/1/25 what the fuck was i talking about LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL