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Welcome to Everybody's Homepage: The Gloriously Unhinged Personal Websites of the Pre-Algorithm Internet
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Welcome to Everybody's Homepage: The Gloriously Unhinged Personal Websites of the Pre-Algorithm Internet

Before the feed, before the algorithm, before every corner of the internet started looking like the same minimalist app, regular people built their own tiny kingdoms online — complete with animated GIFs, MIDI soundtracks that played whether you wanted them to or not, and deeply personal pages about their cats. We found some of them. We are better for it.

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