Hi, I am Simone

I was born among the noise of dial up modems, when the Web was raw, authentic and a little mysterious. I grew up between pixels, forums, floppy disks and late night HTML pages, when a simple text editor was enough to build a small personal world.

I love Linux, open source and everything that is retro, creative and deeply customizable. I like building web pages, making electronic music, editing videos, playing old PC games and tweaking my desktop until it truly feels like mine. For me, freedom is everything: in software, in creativity and in the way we play.

I am fascinated by cyberpunk culture, especially its dark and decaying side. I create music using open source tools, mainly Linux or Android software and my AKAI MPK Mini MK3, and I use the same approach for video editing, no fancy tricks, just ideas, sounds and experimentation.

What is Vort3x2000

Vort3x2000 is a small factory of ideas. A world I build day after day, using my laptop and old devices rescued from planned obsolescence. Just me, my desktop and a connection with a little noise in the background.

Here you will find what represents my everyday life in front of a computer: a Linux distro to customize, an old game to launch, a hidden web page to explore, a piece of software to test out of pure curiosity. No expectations, just the desire to share.

It is a space where I let my creativity and curiosity flow, especially toward Linux and everything that is considered vintage or retro: old games, early web style pages with guestbooks, fragile and imperfect, but alive in their simplicity.

I had a lot of fun building this website, and I still do. I keep tweaking things, adding small details, experimenting with colors, GIFs, buttons, and animations — just like we used to do in the early 2000s, when not everyone was a web expert, and we hunted for graphics, tools, blinkies and HTML snippets across strange webmaster pages. Websites back then were handmade, a bit chaotic, sometimes strange, but full of personality. That spirit lives here: imperfect, experimental, playful, and alive.

The Internet has changed. But in the dark, between glitches and corrupted memories, there is still a hidden beauty, a beauty to discover, one link at a time.

On my website you will also find some of my videos from Odysee. They are not polished. They are not refined. But they are authentic, raw, direct, able to bring you into a “new” world made of curiosity and simplicity. Far from endless talk shows and showroom content that now fills YouTube, a platform that often feels more like television than a lab of ideas.

Vort3x2000 is a return to the origin, a personal experiment to live the Internet not as a stage, but as a laboratory.

Why the XP obsession?

Even though I’m today a convinced ArchLinux user, my obsession with Windows XP is personal and a bit nostalgic. My first real machine was an old IBM with an AMD Duron running Windows ME: it was clunky, noisy and taught me a lot about patience and tinkering. About a year later a friend installed Windows XP for me, and that change stuck, XP felt stable, fast for the time and incredibly tweakable. I kept using XP as my main system until 2014, even when it was already deprecated, I ran a lightweight SP3 build (a so-called "XP Light Edition") that, funny enough, felt snappier than many originals. That experience, the freedom to modify, optimize and squeeze performance from old hardware, is what fed my curiosity and ultimately led me to Linux. XP is not just nostalgia: it’s the memory of the moment I really started to understand computers and enjoy making them mine.