Niche hobbies you have/had.

[VernalLapin]

I’ve had lots of niche/specific hobbies throughout my life, such as:

• As a kid I used my mom’s computer a lot, but barely used the internet. I enjoyed listening to the stock audio files on there.
• I had an art CD ROM called Creativity Express with little penguins and a polar bear who’d teach you about art topics like history and color theory, etc and then flash games related to it. I found the files for the videos and speed them up and pitch them down millions of times. I also did this with home movies and would color shift them, I thought it was so cool that my clothes were different colors and stuff.
• I would take screenshots of famous places around the world on google earth and edit this one picture of my dog into them and send them to my family.
• Speaking of google earth, I used to use it all the time. I’d draw random regions around my neighborhood and give them names. I also gave a lot of nicknames to the nearby houses, i forgot most of them but it was stuff like “the fish house” or whatever.
• When I was even younger (like first grade) I used to send so many emails to my relatives for fun because i was fascinated the with fonts. Most of them were complete nonsense in rainbow letters and wingdings. They're honestly champs for putting up with all those XD
• Making up names for the people who took photos in books, photos of dogs in books, and people in imaginary movies based on books i read.
• Nowadays I like taking fake reviews other people write of remote uninhabited islands on google maps and putting them all in a my own map to sort of build a world out of all of them. There are ones about penguins running restaurants, people teleporting, etc.

I know this will probably seem extremely strange to many people, but I’m wondering who else had/had niche hobbies like this XD I think a lot of these came from not using the internet much as a child (being intimidated by it) and finding alternatives.