i was 10 years old when my parents gave me a book on making websites with HTML. I was so thrilled to get the book i made my first website almost immediately, hosting it with freewebs.
https://donotreply.cards/en/do-post-what-it-felt-like-to-make-your-first-website
I didn’t know how to host pictures yet, so all the backgrounds and animated pixel gifs I put on the pages were copied from other peoples’ websites. most of the pages were stories I made up, or character profile pages related to comics I was drawing. I spent the most time setting up an elaborate choose-your-own-adventure story that involved food and natural disasters.
wish I could find the website now but it’s been deleted, and the wayback machine never captured it… still it lives in my heart…