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Welcome to LIBRE.TOWN! This is Lian's personal homepage.
Libre Town is a virtual town: my way of both expressing myself online and forming genuine connections with others via the web. In Libre Town, you will find my projects, shrines, blog posts, and many more little hypertext surprises.
It is part of the broader "web revival" movement, a loose term for those who reject social media as the prime avenue of interpersonal interaction, and consider the mainstream internet unethical, boring or limiting. Nonetheless, we want to use the World Wide Web to find friends and socialize. For that purpose, we create and manage our own personal amateur homepages, our own corners of the World Wide Web; and connect with others through web-rings, chat-rooms, e-mail and the web itself.
It can be considered part of hacker culture, a post-modernist art movement, or just a hobby; it's all up to the eye of the beholder.
Check out the navigation bar to find out what Libre Town has to offer. Many pages have sub-pages, so feel free to click around!
I hope you enjoy your stay at Libre Town.
A Note on Links
As described in the Hypertext Maximalist's Manifesto, there are two types of links on Libre Town. The colorless underlined passages that blend in are complementary hyperlinks leading to further resources, explanations or citations. In contrast, the bold, colorful links are the "main" hyperlinks, important and essential to the passage's intent.
It is my goal to use this dual system to strike a balance between keeping Libre Town readable and linking to as many relevant, useful or interesting web resources as possible.
Updates / Changelog
- (05th of March, 2024) · Updated my age throughout the website due to my recent birthday!
- (29th of February, 2024) · Reworked the entire site to add the meta viewport property for better mobile capabilities. Oops. Added a Band of the Month for March to the Music shrine. Fixed a bunch of formatting issues while I was at it. Removed the "hot takes" section and integrated it with the thoughts page.
- (24th of February, 2024) · New blog post! On Video Game Criticism.
- (17th of February, 2024) · Added more website expansion ideas to the WWW Workshop.
- (27th of January, 2024) · New blog post: The Hypertext Maximalist's Manifesto. Started implementing more and more "subtle hyperlinks" around the site and will continue to do so in the future. Tidied up the index page.
Communities / Webrings
The beautiful pixel art font used throughout this website, Dizpix, was made by my friend DoctorDizzy!