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Last updated 2025-04-17
I haven't been on traditional social media lately! Wondering what I'm up to...?
I saw some tweets about "Distributed Internet" the other day and I was excited until I realized they were talking about NFT bullshit instead of stuff like distributed social media and SOLID-style projects. :|
Why is it that I try to be as open and positive and encouraging of people, willing to help them learn
something "scary" like Linux or Mastodon or other FOSS software, and yet just for the sin of promoting
Linux I am regarded as some kind of asshole. I'm not even telling people to use Linux/Mastodon. I'm
not even offering unsolicited advice!
And then I get frustrated at people shitting on
FOSS enthusiasts and now I'm an asshole for being frustrated. For fuck's sake.
Want to keep in touch?
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| rachel AT moosader DOT com | moosadee DOT 69 | @Moosader@mastodon.gamedev.place | Moosadee |
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| erik | helloooo | 2025-06-09T07:02:26-04:00 |
| pascalrr | Hello from CS200! I'm taking your summer section right now (first day of the course lol) and just digging through your courses page. Normally not one to find this stuff from a teacher but this is a sick site you got so I had to leave a message. Indie Web and self hosted FTW!! | 2025-06-02T18:36:01-04:00 |
| ladydayelle | Thank you for uploading the Hearts Quest books to archive.org. People think I made these books up. I got them at our version of the Dollar General store in the 1980s as a kid along with the regular Choose Your Own Adventures and another TSR book that was about a guy that was an apprentice ninja. Unfortunately I lost them all in a disaster. I've replaced some of the others for a lot less than you paid for yours but people did not seem to know this series and kept pointing me to either the Endless Quest, CYOA or the adult versions of these books like the Lady's Choosing (which is just hilarious because it's so over the top and doesn't take itself that seriously). Thank you again. | 2025-05-14T21:18:39-04:00 |
| Lina Campbell | Awesome website | 2025-04-08T01:35:28-04:00 |
| stavkapro | What very good question | 2025-02-19T18:57:27-05:00 |
| stavkapro | I apologise, that I can help nothing. I hope, to you here will help. | 2025-02-19T17:06:22-05:00 |
| Rachel | Just updated the website. Test. | 2025-02-17T13:56:22-05:00 |
| Abhihaas | Love the vibe of your page !! | 2025-02-13T12:35:17-05:00 |
| Sam | Love the site, really awesome vibe. Have a nice day ^_^ | 2024-11-04T11:32:34-05:00 |
| @leean00@discuss.systems | And from what I can tell your computer room growing up in the photos looks very much like mine growing up and presently. | 2024-11-02T07:34:34-04:00 |
| @leean00@discuss.systems | Your website is awesome! I just found it looking for the hashtag #pinephonepro on mastodon. I similar to you as I started coding when I was 7 years old on a C64 and my inlaw doesn't speak (much) english (Egyptian). Also my wife and I just bough a house about 5 years ago in a town tgat is not my home town and that I am sad is not my hometown. Our house is a half a house and it feels like living in 4x trailors stackes vertically. I used to make crap games in Java Swing and Java Applets back in the day; big fan of Sierra adventure games, so I made a space quest walkie with graphics I lifed from the game eight images in eight directions to make Roger Wilco walk in a Java Swing Frame and then attempted to do collision detection but my characters kept getting stuck after the collision. Made it more efficient by breaking the screen up into blocks and only testing for collisions if more than one character were in the sane block. Used trig to display a series of images depending on the angle of the ljne the character was walking in relative to where the character was and where I clicked. Used a line drawing algorthim to calculate where the points in the line where. | 2024-11-02T07:19:24-04:00 |
| Hasan | It's awesome seeing a personal website. This definitely added to my interest in making one. | 2024-09-01T17:04:24-04:00 |
| rouli | yo this site is so cool?! | 2024-08-28T18:02:02-04:00 |
| Ratstail91 | This website is so friggin' ugly, I love it to bits! I hope you're doing well! | 2024-08-01T13:45:28-04:00 |
| 媌 | θal | 2024-07-20T18:54:09-04:00 |
| no name | oi oi | 2024-07-19T11:00:27-04:00 |
| potatochipbag | Awesome SDL1.2 tutorial! | 2024-06-29T05:03:05-04:00 |
| Michael | this site rules! | 2024-06-25T13:13:36-04:00 |
| Haijo | Awesome website, we need more websites like this | 2024-06-20T10:06:04-04:00 |
| thecoffeemint | XinChào! | 2024-05-07T02:12:58-04:00 |
| Robert | heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeello | 2024-01-17T21:22:31-05:00 |
| Eric | yo | 2024-01-07T18:28:55-05:00 |
| Blaine | Blaine is present. | 2023-12-26T19:33:09-05:00 |
| Yurii | Hello from Ukraine, I like your website | 2023-12-08T10:11:14-05:00 |
| VantomChannel | I'm the happiest person on earth today! since I discovered your YT channel just now!! I am really speachless, Rachel! Such a great treasure of professionalism and classy nostalgia.. | 2023-11-14T23:47:02-05:00 |
| Mkarcı | hi, i like your website | 2023-10-26T05:07:23-04:00 |
| Alecu | Holy schmoly your site is an acid trip | 2023-08-25T12:46:51-04:00 |
| Mads | this website is a work of art | 2023-08-14T19:10:03-04:00 |
| Rudra | howdy!! | 2023-08-14T10:07:02-04:00 |
| Lilliana | I'm way too young to have been a part of the old internet, but seeing this old stuff always brings a smile to my face :) | 2023-08-13T22:03:53-04:00 |
| PaintedSky | Your website is giving strong vibes of "when the web was cool" - kudos! | 2023-07-18T12:15:46-04:00 |
| Lev Lafayette | Just a note of sincere appreciation for putting the HeartQuest books up on archive.org | 2023-07-17T02:25:46-04:00 |
| Rok | Hi guys! | 2023-06-25T07:43:42-04:00 |
| Rick | Dankon pro la ligo al mia paĝo. Ankaŭ mi inkluzivas vin en mia paĝo de ligoj. | 2023-05-27T17:05:25-04:00 |
| Punch | A.D. 2023 -- Technology is kings. One man still picking sticks. Thank you for your allegro stuff from way back, you were one of the people that showed me I could actually make games. My life would be decidedly more boring without this creative outlet. | 2023-05-14T16:54:42-04:00 |
| Imran Ali | Hi Rachel, I am one of your oldest YouTube viewer from they good old days of Allegro when I started game programming after getting inspiration from you and bunch of other guys including Falco. I think its more that 15 years. Cheers! | 2023-04-19T02:55:33-04:00 |
| Potato | If you're reading this message, enjoy a nice tasty potato! | 2023-03-28T19:29:10-04:00 |
| transmutrix | Your site is a breath of fresh air (and of nostalgia)! | 2023-02-20T08:36:21-05:00 |
| puxped | hi! love the look of your website! | 2022-12-30T12:47:57-05:00 |
| puxped | hi! love the look of your website! | 2022-12-29T17:39:34-05:00 |
| puxped | hi! love the look of your website! | 2022-12-29T15:26:44-05:00 |
| Clarissa the Dogcow | Hey friend!! I agree! Personal webpages > social media! And yours is pretty rad! | 2022-12-01T18:46:59-05:00 |
| Ash | alert(“come back to youtube rachel!”) | 2022-11-22T19:45:05-05:00 |
| Joey | Wgen are you going to make more videos? | 2022-11-22T19:42:42-05:00 |
| Rachel | I've never made anything for freecodecamp before o_o my tutorials are on my website or YouTube lol. | 2022-11-16T10:27:36-05:00 |
| Pranjal Shukla | Thank you for your snake game course in FreeCodeCamp I am currently doing the course | 2022-11-14T23:57:59-05:00 |
| Ryan | I love websites that look like this! I stumbled on your YouTube channel many years back. But, didn't know how to code but I was fascinated none the less. I need to use SDL 1.x for a project so very thankful you have tutorials from back in the day on it :) | 2022-08-18T08:42:22-04:00 |
| Brant | It's been a long time. Haven't browsed Moosader's stuff since the BBS. lol | 2022-07-21T22:09:04-04:00 |
| Dr. Frankenfurter | Chickens are delicious and nutritious. | 2022-07-11T18:35:12-04:00 |
| Rachel | I already tried testing script injection. Nice try. :P | 2022-06-27T13:54:14-04:00 |
| alert("LMAO") | alert("LMAO") | 2022-06-25T09:30:42-04:00 |
| alert("LMAO") | alert("LMAO") | 2022-06-25T09:30:33-04:00 |
| Zylops | This is actually so incredibly cool. I grew up mostly with the modern web but this old style shit is still incredibly sweet. | 2022-06-25T08:58:06-04:00 |
| 90sBaby | Digging the vibe of the retro design! | 2022-06-01T08:27:20-04:00 |
| Rachel | Just checking that the functionality still works and that I didn't accidentally break it again. | 2022-04-21T14:35:28-04:00 |
| Angel | Hello :) | 2022-03-07T11:09:31-05:00 |
| David | Discovered you today from your PinePhone stress test video (which super awesome, BTW!) And now finding this amazing retro site is the cherry on top! Awesome work! Take care! | 2022-02-26T15:26:20-05:00 |
| Questella | Hellooooooooo❤ | 2022-02-22T19:12:04-05:00 |
| Darb | Wow! I am signing this guestbook from a smartphone! Feels weird considering when this site format ruled the world I was plugged into the internet through a landline telephone. Thanks for bringing me back. | 2022-01-02T03:53:16-05:00 |
| Alarxon | Hi! I love your website 💜 | 2021-12-29T05:34:05-05:00 |
| SkyLantern | Thank you for this. The early days of the internet was wild, wonderful, and weird. Just like the journey I took to finally land on this site, starting at a book you uploaded to the Internet Archive and ending up here, I'd spend hours surfing from one link to another, nowhere near where I started. I miss it for all it's randomness and quirkiness. Thanks for reloading those memories. | 2021-12-23T23:48:09-05:00 |
| PiP | it's been a while since I've seen one of these things! - Mike | 2021-12-06T09:02:46-05:00 |
| wasolili | mi olin e lipu sina. sitelen tawa li pona a. I love your website. The animated GIFs are very cool. | 2021-10-18T00:42:44-04:00 |
| Akira | Hi Rachel, I like your website. | 2021-05-01T17:26:16-04:00 |
| Alexa | HIiiiiiiiii! | 2021-01-14T22:20:18-05:00 |
| Dan | Keep on keeping on! Happy New Year!!! | 2020-12-31T15:12:10-05:00 |
| Brian | Via retpaĝo tre plaĉas al mi! | 2020-12-24T21:21:19-05:00 |
| Barflord | i like the old gif collection | 2020-12-24T19:07:41-05:00 |
| Benedikt | Really like your page. | 2020-12-24T16:55:06-05:00 |
| Erika | Erika was here | 2020-12-24T15:56:49-05:00 |
| Rachel | I am testing my own guestbook! | 2020-12-24T15:45:35-05:00 |
A/S/L? -- 37 / ?? / Kansas City
Hi! My name is Rachel. I live in the Kansas City metro area. I've beenprogramming
since I was 10, and have worked locally as a software/web developer since 2010.
Currently, I'm a computer science teacher at a community college and I also make
indie games (and other media) on the side.
* Favorite color: PURPLE
* Favorite food: Bibim bap or Chicken 65 biryani from Ruchi or Pizza...
* Programming languages: C++ (favorite), C#, Java, Python, Bash, PHP
* Code editor: emacs+spacemacs (favorite), sometimes Code::Blocks or Geany.
* Operating system: Linux Mint with Mate desktop environment
* At this point I try to only buy from small and local businesses and not big chains. I am sick of
not being able to buy a damn burrito or a drawing pen without worrying about the corporate owners
donating to campaigns and laws that hurt people.
* Trying to reduce, reuse, and recycle what I can. Learning to grow my own food. Patching my clothes. Recycing junkmail into paper. Buy used.
* No Amazon, Blizzard, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Harry Potter, Hobby Lobby, Chick-fil-A, Starbucks, McDonalds, most other corporations.
* Working on leaving the Google ecosystem.
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GOING TO UPDATE THE REST LATER...
Projects
Moosadee - My gamedev "studio"!
My PeerTube channel!
My main YouTube channel - All the cool videos!
My conlang YouTube channel - Videos in Esperanto, Láadan, and more!
Rachel at Moosader dot comWhy store this data on someone else's page? -- Lists of books read, TV shows, etc.
Photo GalleryArchiving stuff digitally.
Rachel's Archive - Downloads of rare book scans, game CD rips
Moosader Forum GameDev Competitions - Screenshots and info on entries in the old Moosader message board gamedev competitions
ArtSader backup - Creative commons and public domain game art by myself and others
Also old Rachel stuff on the web?
I can't remember many of my old usernames, but here's what I do remember. (I'm mostly putting it here so I can find this information later lol.)
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LinksIf you are a friend and have some kind of non-social-media website, let me know!
Um these might be social media blogs or other types of things
Just in case you wanted a peek at how the old internet looked.
I wish I could remember more of the websites I used to visit when I was younger. One of the things that make it hard to look for old websites is that back in the day a lot of us used random services to get free website hosting. For example, my original Moosader webpage was on the Eccentrix service. Because of this, the URLs weren't always as simple as "WebsiteName.com", making it hard to find archives of them now.
When I was really young, I know I had fan sites about Digimon and Septerra Core back on Geocities. I don't remember their names. I do remember my Sum 41 fan site was "The Sum is 41", which I have linked above.
Need more nostalgia? How about some YouTube videos about the old web?
Honorable Mentions
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| Authentic Pikachu gif. | I don't even know where these were from but you used to see them everywhere. | I definitely remember this cat. |
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| I stumbled across this in the gif searcher and I instantly remembered HOW COOL I THOUGHT THESE WERE they reminded me of the boards in Oddworld and I remember having some sort of maker for these. LEET INTERNET TIMES. | WinAmp was so freaking good. | My parents didn't want to get us a pet so they got me Catz instead. We did eventually get a real kitty and puppy though. (As an adult, we now have four cats. <3) |
Does anyone remember banners people used to put in their signatures on message boards? I miss that art lol
More coming soon!
RachelWilShaSingh (personal projects)
My Itchio - Where my zines and games go!
Moosadee on Google Play
My Redbubble Store!
My Conlang Spreadshirt Store