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Although I remember fabricating a couple in the '70s by hand, although not hardly as fancy or with such fine details (you lay out your pattern on the board with stickers and/or a pen of the right sort and then bathe it in an etching solution that removes the copper that's not covered).
I think some people are also doing 2 layer boards using milling machines to remove the copper.
And PCB isolation routing! I've tried it with broken drill bits as mills and the Eagle to G-code software. It worked ok but I couldn't figure out DIY solder masks.
+1 for Eagle as well. They have (had? I haven't checked in a while) a free version which is fantastic for beginners and to just toy around.