@sarajw @danhon It was 1996 or 1997, so I would have been 14 or 15. I had been online for a few years (Prodigy, Compuserve, AOL) and then there was Geocities!
I'm still proud that I had an original neighborhood address (before they introduced the "suburbs". I remember learning basic HTML. Having an animated Under Construction gif. Having a MIDI play when the page loaded.
I remember emailing fantasy publishers to ask permission to use their logo to link to their sites.
https://web.archive.org/web/20050509132418/http://www.geocities.com/area51/5173/