Hi — I’m Trey Cox. I build websites for a living through Trey Cox Creative, and I grew up on the web back when it was a frontier of weird, personal, hand-made pages you found by following one link to the next.

Somewhere along the way that web got paved over. The places people made for the love of it got replaced by feeds we don’t control, accounts we don’t really own, and media we only rent. I kept feeling the loss — and I kept meeting other people who felt it too.

So I started building again. The Old Web Project began as a handful of retro fan sites and a webring linking them together, and it grew into something bigger: a case, an archive, and an on-ramp for anyone who wants a corner of the internet that’s actually theirs.

Why it matters: the web doesn’t have to disappear to be lost — it only has to become rented and mediated by systems we don’t control. I’d rather help people build their own places while that’s still easy to do. I’m also transparent that I use modern tools, including AI, to do it faster. The point was never the tooling; it was always the web feeling like ours again.

Movements need a human face. This one’s mine — come build alongside me.