Welcome to My Hobbies area! here i will share interests and hobbies i enjoy.
one of the many things i have an interest in is retro computing and early web stuff. this site is one of the outcomes of that interest! I enjoy making virtual machines using Virtual Box. Virtual box is a virtual machine software that oracle made, it is completely free and acomplishes the same thing as VMWare Does. the operating systems i like emulating are windows 2000 (the best of both the post dos and dos age of windows) windows xp, windows 3.1/dos, 98 and 95. although Guest Additions arent supported with 98 and 95, i still like emulating them anyways, if i had one main infulence that sparked my interest in all this it would have to be the aesthetic and geocities. (what neocities is trying to be in the modern era)
you could say everyone has atleast a small interest in photography but i like film photography more as you tend to shoot more meaningful photos and you feel a satisfaction when you get a in focus shot with the correct lighting especially on any polaroid 600 camera god those things are hard to focus but its what i have, i mean i got it a bargain from a car boot sale not too long ago for £4 idk what that is in freedom bucks but oh well. the film is mega expensive but its worth it in my opinion. i know it is an expensive hobby aswell but i dunno i find it awesome :) i will try to upload some photos on a new page on this site called my silly photography.
this is definitely one of my strongest interests and hobbies, ive kinda always loved vinyl records even from a young age but its only been in recent years since ive wanted to learn to DJ, and because of that ive amassed a collection of EDM vinyls, im not sure what got me into music in general, ive always had a semi open mind to most genres but as of recent you could say ive entered my musical discovery golden age as more than ever am i dipping my toes into new genres ive neer listened to. i mean younger me wouldve never touched upon UK Garage, Techno, House, Happy hardcoe etc and wouldve thought its pure shite but im glad ive opened my mind to new musical tastes :). ive also been dipping my toes into soviet rock, and listening to bands such as КИНО, Наутилус Помпилиус and others like it. but ive also been listening to other bits from the east such as yugoslav stuff. my only reccomendations i can make is turbofolk and kerber's Ratne Igre.
id say this is one of my oldest hobbies! i didnt exist when the internet was brand new in the 90s but sure do i love exploring sites and designing like its 1998! also i chose neocities as its the easiest to use, if your wondering why i havent tried sites like nekoweb and such, its because i have and the damn thing wont let my images work despite the code being changed and updated and everything and then learning "oh ur images must be less than 2mb" and its like mate i cant even get the background image to work and ur telling me that? so would i reccomend neko web? for certain things yes but overall for hassle wise no, and im not being biast as i am genuinely open minded, it just blows me away that u cant have images that are more 2 mb in size. thanks neocities for not treating my images like im trying to upload funnymeme.png to a discord server but its over the file limit, oh and also thank you neocities for allowing 1gb of storage with free rather than 500mb