about the webdevil

Name: Vincent/Vin
Age: 21 years old (November 20th 2002)
Gender: Male (He/Him)
Species: Imp
Sexuality: Gay
Languages: ENG, ESP

Yo! I'm Vin, but you can call me Imp! I also go by Matt or Jonah. I use he/him exclusively, so please don't refer to me using they/them. I'm a 21 year old imp living in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. I'm Latino (mixed Mexican and Salvadoran) and bilingual. I'm just a silly little imp who likes to spend his time on the web and have fun. Beyond that, I'm also an artist and animator. I'm disabled, mentally ill, and very autistic.

i will draw an icon

about his webspace

This website is my own little corner of the internet where I can do whatever the hell I want. I post my art, ramble into the void, and gush about my interests, to name a few. Why Neocities? Aside from the fact that coding is fun, I greatly dislike social media and the commercialization of the internet. I believe the web should be a place of creativity and expression, free from corporations and censorship. Not to mention modern social media is just a cesspool of degeneracy and toxicity. I started using the internet when I was as young as 2 years old (shoutout to being VERY autistic!), so I got to experience the internet before it became what it is today. I had a MySpace profile in late 2008 when I was just six years old, which is WAY too young, but it was under the guise and supervision of my oldest sister who was 20 at the time. It was mostly for fun and looks though, I didn't ever interact with anyone on it. I definitely shouldn't have been an avid internet user at such a young age, but it made me who I am today. Regardless, I hope to at least somewhat encapture that era of the internet on this website.

how imp.neocities.org came to be

Here's a bit of history. This website first came to be in March of 2018 (I was only 15!) when a good friend told me to make a Neocities after I expressed wanting to make an old web themed Carrd, since Carrd is very limiting and used to stretch the shit out of pixel graphics. I went ahead and made one, but unfortunately, I knew next to nothing about HTML and CSS. I did technically know a little bit from playing on Neopets back in the day, but clearly I didn't remember it for shit. Here's what my website looked like in early 2018.

Yeah. This was the atrocity that was impV0.5. So I kind of gave up on the whole Neocities thing and let the site sit there and rot in its pitiful state. And it stayed that way for 5 entire years, as I had forgotten about it entirely. Fast forward to late 2023, and once again I was considering making a couple Carrds for myself. One personal and one more "professional" so to speak. But when I saw how much was locked to Carrd Pro and how much it would cost, I remembered Neocities was a thing. Why should I bother with bullshit limitations and things as basic as HTML being locked behind a paid subscription? Neocities is already the answer to all my problems! So I logged back in, and that's when I remembered "Dude, I know FUCK ALL about CSS." Thankfully, I found Teppy's Layouts, so I began working on what would be known as impV1!

Though, this screenshot is more like V0.75 rather than V1, as it was clearly still a huge work in progress. Using my limited knowledge, I was able to edit it to my liking and thus, impV1 was born!

It was simple and made from a template, but I was proud nonetheless, as I added various different edits to make it more my own. After I finished the main page, though, my hyperfixation on coding/the old web kind of wore off, so I stopped working on it, and only a few pages were functional. I focused on other things for a few months. In January, I realized I had kind of neglected my site, but I had actually started using SpaceHey, a fanmade MySpace revival. It was here that my HTML/CSS hyperfixation returned, as I started making layouts for people's profiles. I learned more CSS in the first week of January than I had in all the years prior. After making 1 public use layout and one personal layout, I finally felt I had learned enough to go back to my site and give it the love it deserved. No more pre-made template, impV2 was going to be coded from scratch by hand.

This was the mockup of the concept for v2. The colors weren't final, they were just there to differentiate between different elements.

Even though I wasn't fully set on the design, I got to work on it immediately.