Rachel's Homepage!

About

A/S/L? -- 33 / ?? / Kansas City

Hi! My name is Rachel. I live in the Kansas City metro area. I've been programming 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:	Ummm bibim bap or chicken 65 biriyani from Ruchi :F But I'll generally eat most stuff. Pizza is always appreciated.
Favorite programming language:	C++ (All my personal websites are written in PHP tho)
Favorite DND class:	Cleric! ;D
Favorite coffee:	Vanilla latte
Favorite Operating System:	Linux Mint with Mate desktop environment
Favorite text editor:	Geany

Projects

• Moosadee - My small business!
• My GitLab - Where my code goes!
• My Itchio - Where my zines and games go!
• Moosadee on Google Play
• My main YouTube channel - All the cool videos!
• My conlang YouTube channel - Videos in Esperanto, Láadan, and more!
• My Redbubble Store!
• My Conlang Spreadshirt Store
• My Moosadee Spreadshirt Store
• Rachel at Moosader dot com

Teaching stuff

• LaTeX Stuff
  Where I keep my custom sty file with things I use a lot (e.g, code snippet format, questions, colors) and example documents with CompSci related stuff (math, tikzpicture diagrams for circuits or binary trees or whatever else.)
• Rachel's Course Homepage
  The webpages for the courses that I teach.
• Rachel's Course Repostiories
  Course repositories for courses that I teach.

Creative Commons / Public Domain stuff

• Rachel's Creative Commons Art
  Art you can use for whatever you want.
• Rachel's Creative Commons Music
  I'm not very good at writing music but you can still use these if you wanted.
• Rachel's Public Domain stuff
  Mostly character designs that you could use for some reason if you wanted to.

Blog

Blog posts

• Nice messages (0000-00-00)
• Homepage vs Social Media (2020-12-24)
• New year new house (2021-01-01)
• My 2020 (2021-01-02)
• My 2021 (2022-01-02)

Smol thoughts

Media log

Why store this data on someone else's page? -- Lists of books read, TV shows, etc.

Media logs

Photo Gallery

Go to my photo gallery!

Archive

Archiving stuff digitally.

Archiving others' works

Rachel's Archive - Downloads of rare book scans, game CD rips

Rachel on the Old Web

Also old Rachel stuff on the web?

• Moosader on a free webhost (2007)
• My first DeviantArt page (2004-2008)
• My second DeviantArt page (2007-2008)
• My third DeviantArt page (2008-2015)
• My fourth DeviantArt page (2015-now)
• My old Newgrounds account (2003-2013)
• What remains of my old Sum 41 fan page on Geocities, "The Sum is 41".

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.)

• Tako Nocturne - AIM
• Destino88 - ?? That sounds familiar to me, I guess
• Digigirl
• LusikkaMage
• Kado Lusikka

Screenshots of desktops / projects

Iterations of my webpages

Links

Friends' Websites

If you are a friend and have some kind of non-social-media website, let me know!

FLOSS and Data Privacy Linux Mint - My preferred operating system! DuckDuckGo - The search engine I use! SOLID Project - Control your data! Code::Blocks - What I write C++ in! LibreOffice Suite - Stop using MS Word! PRISM BREAK - Libre/Open Source alternatives to everyday apps IRL: Online Life Is Real Life Podcast IndieWeb - The IndieWeb is a people-focused alternative to the "corporate web".

I miss the good old days of RSS feeds.

Cool stuff

• GifCities - The GeoCities Animated GIF Search Engine
• Geo for Bootstrap - a Timeless Theme by Divshot (Thanks to my friend eatskolnikov for the link :)
• OOCities - Geocities archive mirror
• One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age Photo Op - Screenshots of old webpages
• TheOldNet.com

Old style webpages

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.

• bakaneko.com - I used to go to this website for drawing tutorials
• The Snake Soup - Before I spent a lot of time on YouTube, my sister and I spent a lot of time reading articles about Metal Gear Solid here.
• Although I didn't go to this ACMLM message board, I had gone to several others (The Illusionary World, The Nacho Empire, and Stifu's board) and I was enamoured with the ACMLM boards - so much better than PHPBB. ;P
• Stifu's RPG Maker games and community
• OK Impala
• Allegro.cc - An old website to submit your Allegro-made games to. Some of my old games from 2008 are on here.
• Kirby's Rainbow Resort
• animetheme.com
• trsrockin
• Konfusion
• Polykarbon
• How to Draw Manga
• Day Dreamer

Need more nostalgia? How about some YouTube videos about the old web?

• Weird Old Video Game & Anime Fansites - Hazel
• The early internet is breaking - here’s how the World Wide Web from the 90s on will be saved - Quartz
• The Internet As It Was In 1996 - 90's Websites

Honorable Mentions

• The Illusionary World - I don't know the website URL to try to find an archive, but this was one of THE first websites/message boards I was active on from a young age. I met some of my first online friends, who I still keep in touch with (Fred, Klaus, Jessica), from this board, and other friends I haven't heard from in a long time (Jack/Sean and Rude). The only other thing I really remember about it was that it had Mana (Secret of Mana or Legend of Mana?) Dryad sprite as an icon for marking when a forum was read/unread. ()

Games!

Gifs that remind me of the old internet/computers

Authentic Pikachu gif.	I don't even know where these were from but you used to see them everywhere.	I definitely remember this cat.
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)

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