For developers, information breadth and quality was excellent when I first onlined in '98, and has improved by leaps and bounds year by year. For other stuff,

For developers, information breadth and quality was excellent when I first onlined in '98, and has improved by leaps and bounds year by year. For other stuff, I agree with that OP article, that was a uniquely rich caleidoscope that got "blandened" (now lost/gone/fully-transitioned) as the types of folks who'd craft such little labour-of-love sites mostly did so for lack of easier / more-convenient options that soon popped up first with prefab forums and prefab Wordpress / Blogger, then Tumblr/Medium/social-media.