Thank you so much for this recommendation! This is exactly everything I've been looking for!

one of my favourite homepages and newsletters! so many memories in there :)

i'm going to get onto this too

yes! this is a great feature. when you save a page, it'll archive all the pages that are linked on that page. especially useful if you have a site map that links to every page on your site - then you can archive the whole thing in one go!!

glad that it helped :) i believe that with places like neocities, link directories we have a real opportunity for the small web to flourish outside of the corporate, hostile web :)

Countless albums of lyrics

It was college, not high school, but I definitely printed out some long fanfics for later reading at home (I didn't have internet at home at the time).

Although now that I think about it, I *did* get a smack in the back of the head from my Spanish teacher for printing out a pic of I think it was a Mighty Ducks The Animated Series character art lmao.

A detailed gamefaqs guide for mario sunshine.

Omg!! I was printing out so much, lmao. It was mostly anime/videogame fan art (a looot of kingdom hearts) and fan fiction. I had a special folder that I’d hoard all of my husbando pics in. This started a trend within my friend circle and we’d whip out our secret folder/binders and share what we had found online that week...some of us still have the folders, it’s really funny! :p

Individual frames of animated gifs so I could make flipbooks of Goku.

Day of the Barney fanfic.

Lots of dinosaur and animal related stuff at college, though no one really seemed to care. I used to recycle printouts that other students had discarded so save paper.

Thanks! About creativity itself? To be honest, I am not sure. A brief Internet search for "psychology of Creativity" turned up this: https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-creativity-p2-3986725

For me personally, "creativity" has two meanings: 1. getting a different perspective on the seemingly familar and 2. having a drive to make things. The first is achieved through exploration and the second is achieved by dedication. Both meanings are complementary and have constructiveness as their aim.

I hope that helps in some way! I am happy to dialogue about it more if you are interested.

Neil Gaiman wrote a good piece about "Where do you get your ideas from?" : https://www.neilgaiman.com/Cool_Stuff/Essays/Essays_By_Neil/Where_do_you_get_your_ideas%3F

Also Austin Kleon's blog goes over creativity/art/ideas etc all the time, he cites a lot of other famous creatives and I usually enjoy reading any of his entries: https://austinkleon.com/

Great links! Thank you for sharing! That Neil Gaiman article is both insightful and hilarious.