Originally Written: Jan 14th, 2026 Last Updated: Jan 15th, 2026
It almost still feels like yesterday when I was originally putting together this site in school. and thankfully I finally found images of the earliest incarnation of the site
That only lasted one day. but it got around quick on what was then the Action Retro discord server. it only lasted that long beacause I was writing the layout of the site at school, whilst the webserver was Running IIS on Windows Server 2008 back home. once I got home and figured out how to get files off of the M1 MacBook Air... we were finally cookin.
And that's just about how it stayed until it went offline in 2022 due to my domain name expiring and freenom deciding it's not going to work ever again. Of Course I switched to Fedora with apache as my webserver and I switched to cloudflare for the ability for modern chrome to not be crabby with the site (https). It was working quite well.
Then life happened and I got extremely busy and the action retro discord became The Retro Ward and fast forward and somehow it's 2026. I now live in Western Nebraska with my bf and our little doggo Snoopy.
I've been getting back onto the web lately. just not so much the "modern" web. looking back on what I missed out on in the space Veronica Explains being a big example. I wanted to put my website back on the web for all to see and interact with. I really liked having a barebones little site running on a little Dell Optiplex that can be used for networking and troubleshooting and possibly downloading files, or telling the stories or things I find out that I want to share with people and don't want it to get lost on some near abandoned discord server.
So, then how am I going to do that? Currently, this is the Neocities Edition of BranServe. And as such I can't do everything I want namely work with just http and as such make it work with just about every web browser ever made. I've seen this website's codebase working perfectly on: WebTV, Dreamcast, Internet Explorer 1.0, etc. And I've seen it formatting 90% correctly with all of the supported features of the browser on as old as NCSA Mosaic and works well on text based browsers such as lynx as well.
Sadly none of this works. not even the latest incarnation of lynx which usually handles the modern web as long as it's not a site infested with javascript and all that jazz. the oldest browser I could get this working on is the latest official firefox release for Windows XP. which is not good enough at all.
I have now bought branserve.org and am currently working on updating the original codebase.