Looking Back at cabescion.com — The Web We Left Behind

Posted on May 29, 2025

I don’t really know why I ended up there. Maybe I was just poking around the internet, chasing
some old ghosts, like we all do sometimes. You click, you scroll, and then — boom —you’re staring
at a page frozen in time, like amber. That’s how I landed on
cabescion.com circa 2006.

The page isn’t much by today’s standards — heck, it probably wasn’t much by those standards either.
A weird little blend of chunky fonts, hardcoded HTML, and that unmistakable early-2000s “this-is-good-enough” vibe.
You know what I mean, right? Like someone’s cousin threw it together with Microsoft FrontPage
over a weekend and just said, “Done.”

And yet… there’s something really real about it. Something kind of raw and
weirdly comforting. It wasn’t trying to be beautiful or slick or “optimized for mobile.”
(What even was mobile then, a Razr?). It was just a space, carved out of the noise,
where someone said, “Here’s what I have. Take a look.”

I don’t know who ran cabescion.com. Honestly, I’m still not 100% sure what it was.
A personal site? A business that didn’t make it? An art project gone quiet? There’s this blurry
kind of emptiness there now — like walking past a boarded-up building where you used to buy candy as a kid.
You can almost hear echoes of what used to be, but the walls don’t talk anymore.

The internet used to feel smaller, you know? More like a neighborhood. Back then,
Sites like cabescion.com felt like actual places. Now, everything’s a brand.
Everything’s algorithmic. Click this. Subscribe to that. Content, content, content.
But there? There was silence. A kind of MySpace-era weirdness
That didn’t ask for your attention; it just existed. Quietly.

And now? It’s gone. I mean, not totally — thank God for the Wayback Machine, right? —
But the domain doesn’t lead anywhere anymore. Just 404s and empty DNS records. Another digital ghost,
drifting between IPs.

I guess what I’m trying to say is, I miss that internet. I miss the version of the web where it was
Okay, to be a little ugly. Where mistakes weren’t A/B tested away. Where you could just
Make stuff and put it out there without worrying about SEO or conversion rates or TikTok strategy.

If cabescion.com ever meant something to you — or if you know who was behind it —I’d honestly love to hear.
Not for traffic or clout or whatever people chase now. Just… for the story.

And if you’re someone out there thinking about making something, do it.
Even if it’s messy. Even if it doesn’t make sense yet. Because maybe one day, someone
will find it in a dusty archive and feel something they didn’t expect to feel.

Keep the web weird. Keep it human.

— Just someone who got lost and kind of liked it.