I built a website in or around '97 on geocities. You talk about metatags being required for indexing but I think you forget that the web was young once. Google

I built a website in or around '97 on geocities. You talk about metatags being required for indexing but I think you forget that the web was young once. Google had a voracious appetite to index and they still do. The barrier to entry for someone to build a website in '97 wasn't much higher than it is now. Things just look prettier these days.