benbrown (old account)The best websites in the world, the ones that got us all hooked on the internet in the first place, people hand built them in HTML.
Even sites with content management tools, you wrote HTML into forms.
The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculus@benbrown And the best part was you could make it as weird and as messy as you wanted!
My siblings and I had a really old and really shitty Pokémon fan site back in the late 90s/early 2000s and we were just learning as we went along, and the design was awful as all getup, but it was personalized and felt organic!