GRAVITYCORE
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What is GravityCore?

A gravity core is a scientific instrument used to retrieve samples from the seafloor. I first saw the term while watching the move The Lake at the Bottom of the World (2022). I was trying to think of names for my site and that really popped out at me as something I would have used for a site name in 2000.

I picked it because it sounds cool. I am not a scientist.

Why did I make this site?

I'll be turning 40 in 2024. I have to admit, I've missed personal sites since I stopped keeping them in 2011. In retrospect it's fine -- I was out living my life, not spending much time on the computer.

I don't expect to find the same community I had back then, only to capture a hint of that feeling I had 13-25 building sites and keeping my creativity out there. I also think this is a fantastic opportunity to share what piece of the old web I have contained.

It's really possible this may eventually become a maze of content and not a well-structured site.

Current Design

Instead of "coding like 1999" I wanted to open a page I made in 1999 and update it for this site. That seems like the easiest/fastest way to get back into that groove (for me) because I would be able to immediately see the limits and find where I left off creatively.

I found a 2005 HTML layout from my archives and started with that. I wanted to start with something MUCH older, but I couldn't find any good examples of code that was already started for me -- my pre-2005 sites are archived on floppy disks.

I'm still going to hunt down my archives and maybe my next layout will look older. This layout was "born" in Feb 2005 during my last few years of college. I knew a little CSS but I didn't know about keeping a separate "stylesheet" file yet. Because of this, the CSS is encoded into EACH PAGE, so any time I need to update a style, I have to update all of them. (The part of my brain that understands good content strategy is screaming, but it's worth it for the authenticity.)

Things adopted from sites pre-2005: Table layout, iframe layout, gifs, basically everything in the toybox, the background, guestbook, random images of things I own floating in space

Credits & Info

Built using NotePad++ on my computer and hosted by Neocities.