GeoCities/Angelfire sites looked like this at least until 2004 when blogs took off. As CMS architecture was a lot more complicated than static HTML/CSS, people

GeoCities/Angelfire sites looked like this at least until 2004 when blogs took off. As CMS architecture was a lot more complicated than static HTML/CSS, people stopped customizing their sites and just went with default themes. That was the magic of early Internet. No themes, no frameworks, just whatever you could do with HTML.