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When I started using the web, this is what all pages looked like and tons and tons of people had personal ones just like this. It was so great. I used to love touring all the self expression.

Not quite the first, but this is how mine looked in '98: https://web.archive.org/web/19981205195643/http://www.justki...

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One of my favorite aspects of the early web was the focus on customization. Your Myspace page was literally 'your space' and you were free to customize it with CSS as you pleased. There's a whole generation of developers and designers that started this way. You still see remnants of this philosophy in the contemporary web (e.g. moderators on Reddit can customize their subreddits), but that philosophy is nowhere near as ubiquitous as it was in the Geocities era.

Linked in there you have https://web.archive.org/web/19981206221926/http://www.msyste... which would be an amazing post on it’s own.

I had no idea people were already doing smart home things 26 years ago!

A solid 70% of pop up ads in 1999 were for X-10 systems.

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