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AnthonyAlbit.comMy first personal website — a testing ground that never truly disappeared

AnthonyAlbit.com was my first real attempt to build a personal site for myself in 2016. Half blog, half experimental playground, it became the foundation of what would later evolve into my QRaway Digital Space.

A personal site that had to happen

In 2016, I finally built something I had never made before: a website for myself.

I had never felt fully comfortable in social networks.
I preferred the slower, more thoughtful “journal” format — mixed content, long posts, fewer distractions.
But by then social media had taken over the world, and LiveJournal was fading away.

Working in the dating industry gave me time and space to experiment again, so I created my own home online — something that felt mine.


A hybrid blog and experimentation space

The site became a strange but charming hybrid:

  • clever grid layouts

  • responsive design experiments

  • mixed image + text posts

  • embedded media

  • UI concepts

  • prototypes and micro-tests

  • and a general sense of “let’s see what happens if I do this”

It wasn’t polished.
It wasn’t organized.
But it was alive.

And looking back, I probably should have continued blogging — it was good for creativity, reflection, rhythm, and personal branding.
If anything, I stopped too soon.


A quiet predecessor to something bigger

The site is no longer online — it lives only as a local archive.
But its influence didn’t vanish.

Today, it survives as my QRaway Digital Space, on my personal domain — still full of experiments, half-ideas, drafts, and future concepts.

And one thing is certain:

👉 the grid from that old site will absolutely return to my Digital Spaces.
It was too good, too unique, too “me” not to bring back.

Some ideas deserve a second life.


Why it matters

This wasn’t a commercial project.
It wasn’t client work.
It didn’t aim to scale.

But it was my first personal digital home — a place where ideas were born, tested, broken, reborn, rearranged, and eventually absorbed into the larger ecosystem.

👉 Some projects matter simply because they belong to you — and because they shape what comes next.