you are always two webrings away from someone you sorta knew in 2021
the type of people you looked up to but never talked to because they had their own thing going on, those cool 88x31s - all of their friends on a webring. the type of people who had a git instance for their friends. the type of people who had in jokes on their websites, alongside 10 million cool projects. the type of people who had a group discord server where everyone knew everyone.
yet as someone who wasn't in that circle, looking in, everything looked so appealing, sad i was never in those circles, they just like me shared a love for computers or the gender we have, or the identities we imbue.
but hey, now i look with a curiosity, looking forward to meeting you someday, but there's a part of me - that kid who installed a new linux distro every second day, there when the drama happened who wonders what it would be like if i had an 88x31.