Personal Blog
Random stuff about myself
Here you'll find some of my experiences, stories and some random content.
How I was able to run Internet Explorer in 2026 (and how you can too)
Everyone knows Microsoft killed Internet Explorer in mid 2022, and replaced it with Microsoft Edge. Personally it was also a browser I pretty much forgot about for those past four years. Then recently, I saw this video from Tech Enthusiast where he ran Internet Explorer in Windows 11 (likely a Virtual Machine). That video was made in May 16th 2026, and so I decided to try that out for myself. Surprisingly, it worked. Now, here's how I did it (that being for Windows 11 users).
CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application").Visible=true
A thing you can notice after you type something and hit enter is that the engine is powered by what's now Microsoft Bing. Some websites are of course still accessible, but a lot of other websites won't let you in, and will tell you to update your browser. You can also click the yellow smiley face to send a smiley or a frown (basically a form of feedback for the browser itself). Another point is that when you pin it to the taskbar, close it, and then reopen it, it'll basically just open MSN on Microsoft Edge, which means you should ALWAYS access it from that file on the desktop. I decided to test SuperRyn's website on there as well, and it actually worked. Makes sense - aside from the website being purely HTML, it's also made to work with older browsers.
Analyzing the production and logic behind Street Catz
Basically there's this show going around YouTube, going by the name of Street Catz. Sure the algorithm may have recommended you that someday, so if you haven't watched it, I'll do an analysis on it.
Noticing by the pilot's thumbnail, you can see it looks like an old show found in an attic. And it does really nail the 60s/70s aesthetic, found in older shows like The Flinstones. The video's bio says:
Street-Catz is an animated web cartoon about a rock & roll band featuring four cats and their daily antics with their music, their ruckus, and the law enforcement.
A thing is that to replicate this old cartoon style, you need to use some VERY specific colors, such as teal and mustard yellow. As you can see, they're very present accross the show. Aside from the pilot, there are also a few shorts available. The show even has original songs (one of them being For the Record). Plus, there are two pages for it: one on Spotify, and the other on IMDb. The Spotify page shows they're operating the way that other bands (like Gorillaz and The Archies) do. On the pilot's comments, people have really liked it, and it's something you see when scrolling around for a while. One user noticed how each character has a different accent. Going to the replies, you can see each one of them: Game being from southwestern US, Rox being from northern England, Blitz being from northeastern US, Shank being from southern England (or Australian, depending on how you hear it), and Officer Russell being Scottish.
Link if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNM0fCbU7mU
The school music concert. Part 1,5: Qualifying rounds (April 2026)
Yea.. no picture for that this time.
I could say that April had been the most chaotic month, and that was because of the qualifying rounds (April 15th-17th). The first day had been the leagues and their shouts. We had been on the middle. Each one of the leagues had been there with their own colors. 7th/12th grades with green, 8th/11th grades with orange, and 9th/10th grades with black. On the second day, it was the performances (the high school part). We were on the right, and we were with white shirts tinted with black and brown, being the physical and mental exhaustion of workers. There was even a giant clock for that, and that meant workers were not supposed to be used as instruments. At that point everything was fine, until that last day came (the parodies). Before I say what happened, I'll come up with the league part. We were on the left, wearing pink tinted with black. That day was a protest on people's ingratitude for basic needs. Along with that, we had three flags.
Now, to what happened. NONE of the 8th grade songs were qualified, although they were the BEST presentations. There were six qualified songs, FOUR of them from 7th grade. Basically, they qualified EVERYONE from 7th grade 2. Then the other two were from 9th grade 1. Have to say it, the 9th grade guys made THREE mistakes, and the 7th grade girls parody gloryfying their own league was AWFUL. I just wonder what was going on with the judges' minds. Then I missed the last two rehearsals of the month. One because I was sick, and the other because I had a test outside my school. On April 28th, I changed my WhatsApp pfp to the 9th grade league style as a joke. The girls on the group chat went crazy within that, as they really thought I declared support for 9th grade. And I changed it back a few minutes later. Still, from what happened on the last qualifying round, I can assume the 2026 concert will be a DISASTER. And from the poster I saw the school putting on the entrance, they're really ACCELERATING that. Now, wheter the disaster comes true remains to be seen.
Why people should look for YouTube revivals
PS: This is NOT a promotion to YouTube revivals in any form. You should be free to chose what platform you want to join. I won't be responsible for any trouble you get into.
So, everyone knows YouTube is unlivable nowadays. Too much drama and useless corporate features. With age-verification in Brazil, things are even worse. Now, you might ask yourself: "There has to be an alternative". The thing is, you actually have alternate video-sharing platforms. More specifically, platforms that look a lot like old YouTube. Those are the old YouTube revivals.
The community is very nice, but you'll find websites that have been shut down or discontinued, due to the community's internal wars. With that being so, you can take a look at the Old YouTube Revival List (yt-revival-list.com), to know what websites are active or inactive. At least, this is what I recommend. Basically it's a sort of browser for this type of website.
The things they value are privacy and long form content. First of all, the trust on corporate platforms is breaking apart for most users, with a recent example being the LinkedIn scandal. Second, YouTube is full of AI slop content and short form videos, along with predators and an awful moderation. If you joined the platform before 2020, you'll know this is not what it started as. The community is also smaller, so if you just make a good video, people eventually notice. One personal example of mine was when Radiatorgaming420 (the owner of VidTape) had commented in some of my VidTape videos, and later he subbed to me, as my second subscriber. This is the kind of thing that never happens on YouTube.
Overall, you can actually check out for those platforms yourself, but PLEASE. Make sure to check for the platform's stability (both for the userbase and the webhosting), and check out on their history and features at the Altipedia Fandom Wiki.
How I met Tentimesfriday, the Aftersleep webcommunity and how I migrated to the small web
Before I had this website, before I knew the small web was a thing, and even before I traded my subscriptions for physical media, I was a completely mainstream guy. Just watching whatever movie popped up on Netflix, or whatever video the Youtube algorithm offered me. Come a certain day in November 2025, I was checking on the channel of one of my yt friends, Peyton (AKA Bunchkin), and on her posts tab (what you could call the community tab), I saw some fanart of a hoops&yoyo OC, which belonged to Friday. In the post, she referenced him by his real name, Evan. Given that, I just scrambled around trying to find out where that one OC came from. And that's how I got to an article on Friday's website, related to his hoops&yoyo OCs (enhanced on the Comix and Art section, which he made from 2022 to 2024).
Being the corious guy I am, I got to the homepage, and I saw a lot of cool articles, like the Sony Digital Mavica and the 000webhost shutdown. Checking on the sidebar and bottom links, I got to his webcommunity, Aftersleep (which I joined by the same month). Basically this is the starting point of my migration to the small web, also linked to my physical media migration. By January 2026, I abandoned streaming services, and got my hands on the DVD and CD stuff, and I also joined SpaceHey, Newgrounds, and my first YouTube revival, KamTape. It was also on that month I started building this website, since Aftersleep was having its downtime (and it's still having it), while also chatting with people on the Aftersleep Rizon channel.
On February, the Roblox migration to dynamic heads was my final straw, so I moved to Polytoria, and then to Watrbx (after they introduced Pauly). On March, I went to EraCast and FulpTube (Chaziz), and since SpaceHey was locally shut down due to the local laws, I moved myself to FriendProject. In late March, I'd have also joined VidTape, and returned to EraCast again, with me being on dual revivals. Finally on April, I abandoned my YouTube channel, after they told me to link my channel to a parent, and I also joined Pricellium while Watrbx was temporarily down. I only use three mainstream platforms now, but overall, my migration is complete. That's how we got there, really.
The Tux franchise: Stuff you (probably) played on your school's computer lab
So, you've probably seen Tux the penguin, at least once in your life. That one cartoon-ish penguin that used to be on computers. Most people only know him from Linux, but for someone who grew up with computer labs (like I did), you know him from a large gaming franchise. Stuff like TuxMath, TuxPaint or SuperTux. There was also SuperTuxKart, which was SuperTux as a kart game. Basically you'd just mess with stuff related to open-source software as a kid. Other stuff they made was Tux Racer (a 3D racing game), Frozen Bubble (a clone of Puzzle Bobble), Tux Football and many others. Now, their history. In the late 90s and early 2000s, Linux was growing in popularity, but was VERY unfriendly to its everyday users, especially children. Within that, programmers like Bill Kendrick (the creator of SuperTux) looked at the landscape, and realized that if Linux was to be taken seriously by schools and parents, it needed software for children. TuxPaint was made in 2002, since Kendrick's friend lamented that there wasn't any decent simple drawing prgrams for his children. While TuxMath and Tux Typing were spreadhead by a volunteer project, Tux4Kids, which had free educational sofwtare for schools as its target. Because everything was open-source, more programmers joined in. For example, a dev in Europe could add the language translation code, while an artist in North America made the graphics. It wasn't about the money - it was about that free community-driven software could be as good as expensive commercial software.
Finally, the reason they vanished off the mainstream. It wasn't because of a major corporate scandal, but because they were slowly overtaken by the evolution of tech. Things like the shift to mobile and Chromebooks, the fact that Steam and polished, cheap and free games have taken over, their reliability on donations, and the fact that people believed that Linux having its own mascot held the OS back from looking serious, leading to schools favoring minimalist and modern choices. But are their games still a thing? Actually, yes! since the code is free for anyone to use/update, volunteers have quielty kept the dream going in the background, like the SuperTux 0.7.0 update. Plus, you can still install their stuff, or play them on your browser.
An old laptop from my parents
I decided to take a look at one old laptop from my parents, and it was a laptop running Windows 7, which belonged to my father. Actually, both laptops I found were running Windows 7. I had a hard time looking for the charger (since that thing was offline for a decade), but hopefully, I found it inside a box. I powered it, and we had a black hole in the upper right of the screen. Honestly, I don't remember what happened. But the date and hour was set to midnight, December 7th 2009. I had to change it to March 14th 2026, 3:32 PM (AKA the time I was viewing the laptop), and then I went to look into the files. At the downloads, we had some interesting stuff: A video of me and my mom playing with cups as a kid, a Firefox launcher, some WhatsApp screenshots and a file that had "Doctor Camargo" in the name. Wondering who that doctor is. Anyway, I went into the other sections, and there was nothing really, other than the samples and some old stuff. I even decided to check on the game explorer, but all I found was FreeCell and Solitaire. It was interesting and boring at the same time. The other laptop belonged to my mom, but I couldn't find the charger for it. Also the PC had a disc drive (with support for DVD, DVD-RW and CD), but I didn't actually use it. Personally, I was surprised that a computer that old was also that empty.
The school music concert. Part 1: Rehearsals
The school I study on has three programs: Drama, music and gymnastics. I picked the music course for piano and electric guitar, and we have an annual concert. Since I'm on 8th grade, we're in the team with 11th grade. 7th grade got 12th grade and 9th grade got 10th grade. The theme of this year was gratitude, and our group was about basic needs. We're in the parodies group as well (7th to 9th grade), so our songs should be about that. We're training the shout, and we already have a shirt for the team. Of course the verses had to go through changes so we'd do better. I'm doing well with percussion only, but there are students that just won't collaborate. The group is doing well overall. Anyway, the final stages of the event will happen in May, which is when Part 2 of this atricle should come out. Might also make a Part 1,5 if something happens during April. I'll be playing an instrument on the day, and that'll probably be the piano.
Stay tuned for updates.
An overview on one of the 2000s brazillian Recreio magazines (Edition 247, December 2004)
There was this children's magazine series here in Brazil, which was made by Publisher April in the 2000s, and from what it looked, it was very popular. However, after a while, it just vanished. I first heard of them online, but later I saw them physically at the school library. Makes sense, the school exists since 1986. They had a lot of those magazines - some from 2002, others from 2003 or later. The most recent one I could find there was made in 2009. So, I decided to take one of them to read during break time. And, now I'll bring an overview to it.
The sections
Going on the first page, we have an index of the sections: Cool Things to Know, Test, Stay Tuned, Animals, Crafting, To Laugh, Dinomania, Activities, Games, Science, School, Comics, two more Pastime sections, Mail and Comic Strips. Stick around with me since this article is gonna be long.
Cool Things to Know
This section is basically questions that the readers have asked to the magazine on their email. From what they've asked on this section, we have: Why do sharks attack when they smell blood, Why are nervous cells called that, Why are some people bald, What are the five bet soccer teams on Brazil without the ones that have state titles, and Why is there seven days a week. Personally, these are interesting.
Test
This time, it's a test to see if you're rude, or if you easily forgive people. There are ten questions, and you have to mark the circle, the square or the diamond on each one of them. And, there's a box with the results (if you marked more squares, diamonds or circles).
Stay Tuned
An article about the real identity of superheroes. A thing is that if you collect those magazines, you'll notice there's a lot of stuff related to old 2000s cartoons, TV shows and movies. On the list, we have: Superman, Spiderman, Batman, SuperCow and Yami Yugi. Plus, a few boxe with their info. And, on page 11, there's another test to see if you can be a superhero.
Animals
This article is about the life of deep-sea antarctic creatures. These were discovered by brazillian and german researchers who dived into an area with no icebergs. We have: The wolftrap starfish, a 5-inch amphipod, giant isopods, the glass sponge and starfishes competing for food. Plus, a fact box on the bottom right.
Crafting
A short tutorial on how to make a diver origami. It has six steps, and it's related to the previous section.
To laugh
This section is a 12-question quiz, except those are prank questions. Basically there are elements in the question just to distract and confuse everyone. One of the questions is: A plane crashes in the border of Brazil and Chile. To what side should the survivors be sent? The answer is, None of them. Brazil doesn't border Chile. All the anwers are located on the next page.
Dinomania
It was part of a 2000s toy/card series, with the sponsorship of Bubbaloo. This edition was about the Pteranodon, an animal of the pteranosaur family. It lived by the end of the Cretaceous, 80M years ago. There's an infobox and a 3D-puzzle box.
Pastime sections
To make the process faster, I'll address all the three pastime sections. On the first one (pages 22 and 23), you have to find small objects hidden on a large image. On the second one (page 37), you have to find two equal insects on the image. And on page 39, it's a seven-errors game. The answers to them are located on page 42, the same page as the Comic Strip section.
Games
Around that time, a SpongeBob movie would be released in theaters. So, SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (the game) was made for Xbox, GameCube and PlayStation 2. Playing as Bob or Patrick, you get to his house, go to the Krusty Krab and face Plankton, the one wanting the Hamburger's recipe. On special levels, you ride a car collecting boxes and prizes that can be traillers, images and even new clothes.
Science
This article is about bacteria. Some of them make photosynthesis, and release oxygen. It's believed that they came from the oxygen on the atmosphere, allowing other organisms to develop later. They've witnessed massive shifts on the planet. They saw the dinosaurs appearing and going extinct, and survived every type of climate change. They're in our bodies, inside volcanoes, in Antarctica's ice and the deep sea. We have good bacteria and bad bacteria. Plus, more fact boxes. If you're learning about those at school, you coul show this to your teacher.
School
An article about volunteer work. Anyone can do these, and age doesn't matter. On the US, most people who are volunteers are under 20. On Brazil, 54% of young people want to be volunteers, but don't know how to begin with it. It's easy: just want to do it. Start at home: make your bed or walk the dog. Giving away old clothes and/or toys to a daycare is also a good idea. You can also do this at school in many ways, like informing your class about it.
Comics
The show here is KimPossible (Disney): The Revolt of the Mummies. This is a show that used to air at Disney's cable channels. As I mentioned before, you'll find a lot of old cartoons, TV shows and movies in those magazines. This also happens in the Comics section. In another edition I saw, the section was about Dexter's Laboratory, from Cartoon Network.
Pictures and messages that fans have sent the magazine. Photos, texts and fanarts.
Comic Strips
A section with three comic strips from that era: Animals (Fred Wagner), Mutts (Patrick MacDonnel) and Mother Goose (Mike Peters), all of them from 2002. Plus, the answers for the Pastime sections.
Overall, this is a good magazine series, and maybe you should check it out. It has some cool stuff, and it's not bad at all.
My experience with the indie web
I started getting into this recently, and it's actually nice. While major platforms are bot-infested, predator-infested, AI-clogged and keeping up with recycled UIs and an awful moderation, these websites are just sitting there - clean and entirely powered by humans. These are niche communitiees, which are often ran by a small group of devs, and they don't actually wanna be large companies or compete with major media. So, I'll put here the categories and my experience with them.
Old websites.
Perhaps the mot famous example here is Newgrounds, and the only one of this category I've been to. Around since 1999, and they've survived a lot of events, like the death of flash and the AI invasion. It's mostly where you can upload blogs, animations, games and digital art. A thing is that when you upload something there, it goes to the portal; if it gets many positive votes, it stays on the website forever (protected). But if it gets many negative votes (below 2.0), it's wiped out of the platform (blammed). I have two pictures and a text post there, but I'm not that active there. Fun fact: when you work in a team with a game, the game appears in everyone's profiles, not just yours. Plus, you can make some bucks with it.
Revival websites.
The most popular type of indie social media. Basically remakes of modern websites in their old layouts. For example, SpaceHey (revival of old MySpace). Everyone's out here roleplaying pretending it's the late 2000s and going crazy with their profile layouts. I have a page myself, and I even found a group of someone's hardcore band there. another example is BitView (revival of 2008 YouTube). I tried signing up there, but they were having problems with their email confirmations, which is something they've addressed in August 2025. Since there are a bunch of old yt revivals I chose KamTape (formerly EpikTube, revival of 2005 YouTube). Altough you can't set a profile picture, it's a nice one. They're a larger community, but a bit aggressive when protecting their code/community. SilasTube got taken down because of them. There's even a 2009 twitter revival (Blips), by the same group as BitView, but I don't really know about it.
Transformative websites.
Modern indie media. Not old, but not pretending to be old either. Neocities is one that has many debates due to some people considering it a revival website, because of Geocities. Basically you can make your website, customize it (which you'll have to learn about HTML/CSS, and maybe a bit of JavaScript) and check out on other people's websites. Also I'm writting this on Neocities right now. Another one I've been to is Aftersleep, which is a webforum that you can discuss a few topics and have your own website linked, however it's been down since Christmas due to a 509 error. I only have two posts there in case if you wanna know.
And that's it for today. Expect more things to come on this section soon.