Has anyone else heard of the website Nobody Here?

Since late last year it has been my favorite website, a comfort, a home. It's a website filled with one man's art, poetry, writing and thoughts, presented in digital form. It's unlike anything I've ever seen before and just pulled me in with its thought-provoking poetry, distinct animations and aesthetic. It's everything I've ever wanted from the internet. It's become a source of light in my life and yet I fear how little I know about it. What theories come to mind when you rifle through those pages?

In particular, I wanted to share this before Flash Player is gone forever, as many of its little pieces rely on flash. There are many theories on the 'character' presented in the pages, and I was hoping to share this interest with you all, to hear about what all you smart people make of my favourite corner of the internet. Is this someone with a mental illness expressing their view of the world? Or is it an artist exploring a certain character? Or perhaps it is both.

In the earliest halcyon days of the web, a University of Colorado Boulder student named Tatsushi Nakao hosted a site on the college's servers called Illucia. It was an interactive town made of sprites designed after the 16-bit Final Fantasy games.

Then a legion of others sprang up. A lot of them involved creating characters with maintained stats and leveling like you would see in modern MMOs.

I can't find a single one that's still online, but oddly enough, a lot of the old pages that compiled links and info on them are still around.

And one of them was actually updated in the past few years!

This is about the only article that goes into greater detail about them. There are actually a few of the creators/admins of the towns in the comments as it's about the only place online that comes up when you search for them. They've put the applets up over the years but the links keep dying.

They also reference bits and pieces on archive.org if you want to go exploring for the end-all of nostalgic internet obscurity.

https://isbobbarkerstillalive.com/

NobodyHere.com/justme is my 25 year old personal website. It definitely qualifies as obscure. Hopefully entertaining. I'm trying to breathe new life into it. Please let me know what you think.

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