Ginny Gravity's Pixel Galaxy

About Me

Hey friends! My name is Ginny, and I've been a citizen of the web since 1996! Thanks so much for taking the time to check out my little corner of the internet, and I hope you enjoy your stay!

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Quick Facts

• Name: Ginny ☆ Gravity
• Age: 36
• Current Favs: Cinnamoroll, Retro Tech, Tamagotchi, Hatsune Miku
• Occupation: Web Dev, Convention Artist and Etsy Shop Owner
• Other Interests: Photography, Cats, Birds, Splatoon, Pokemon, Minecraft, p5.js Coding

Web 1.0 Nostalgia

For a long time, I’ve been unenthused by my presence on the internet. Social media is a bland white box which we adorn with our images, videos and thoughts in an attempt to draw in our crowd. I’ve been trying the pristine curated walls and hubs for my personal needs, but time and time again it feels like all of my interests get mashed together, pulling my personal accounts in different directions. Drawing in one crowd, only to lose the same crowd when I shift to a different subject. I’ve also tried making multiple accounts to fit all of my interests in their respective box, only for those accounts to never grow because I’m not active on them constantly.

My personal website is (or will be once it’s fully built) a centralized hub of everything I find interesting wrapped in a branding that feels genuinely me with spaces curated with everything that makes me happy. This is how the web should be. Uninhibited by ads, or the addiction of being fed never ending content meant to make you consume more and buy more products. I’m tired of selling myself. Visit my etsy link if you want but I want to share the not-so-marketable pieces of me. The beauty of a personal site is that the viewer can consume what they want here, then move along. Though I do hope they come back to see my new content from time to time!

I’ve been loving going through the websites on neocities and finding people like me. Creatives who just want to share who they are, what they love, and wrap it up in theming that is so entirely them!

History

My family got our first dial up connection to the internet on Christmas of 1996 and some of my earliest memories of using the computer was going to early websites for Beanie Babies and Barbie. The internet was still very much in its infancy at this time, it’s awe inspiring thinking just how far websites have come design and functionality wise since then!

I remember exploring the internet in my early tweens with my friends and really enjoying collecting anime related gifs and screenshots. We’d share our finds with each other through geocities fan sites and floppy diskettes. This is probably the earliest I started doing any kind of coding with HTML and CSS, though at the time I didn’t really understand how it ticked. I’d use styles and learn basic graphic design through my teens using and customizing sites like LiveJournal, MySpace and Tumblr, but really wouldn’t get into web coding until I was in my early 30s when I (finally) went to college.

After getting through my associates degree for graphic design my friends convinced me to stay in school longer. Platt College San Diego only offered three different bachelors programs, and during the associates program we got a chance to try each of those programs out for a class. Taking the basic web coding course really sparked that old feeling I got sharing images and niche interests through geocities as a kid, and I was hooked! It was so much fun actually learning how to build cohesive websites and finally learning other functionality too, like javascript, php and even backend database building.

I went on to get my BS in web design and development then soon after got a job maintaining websites as an assistant web developer for multiple dental clinic websites. I’m still at that job today!