I’m always on the look out for small sites especially ones that allow coding customization. My starting point was when I saw my friends using carrd which fascinated me, but didn’t hit the coding fix I wanted since it wasn’t real coding unless I paid a subscription. (I didn’t want to pay for that) Awhile later I discovered Spacehey which I respected for recreating MySpace and it did help dip my toes into some proper coding. Meanwhile my friends were using Rentry which I didn’t think of using at first, but eventually I came around to it just to make some basic simplistic bios for myself using themes of my interest. Rentry is just a fun side thing for me when I don’t want to do a lot, my main site where I truly enjoy coding on is Neocities with how you can do truly ANYTHING on it. Eventually that lead me to 123Guestbook since I wanted a widget on my neocities where folks could ask me questions or send me a message which resulted in me looking for back up sites in case 123Guestbook shut down or anything (spoiler alert: it did) which I found something that’s basically 123Guestbook to replace my widget being atabook. On that journey however I did find Retrospring which felt like a good alternative for those who didn’t want to write something on a guestbook for whatever reason. (I noticed especially folks on Rentry prefer leaving messages on Retrospring instead of guestbook) Now Retrospring shutting down causing me turning to here as my friends and A LOT of rentry folks have turned to this site for that very reason.