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The Web of the 1990s and early 2000s (then called the World-Wide-Web) was different (in quality) from the Web of today.
One interesting thing from that era was that — there were many individuals who (on their own) created whole web-sites about some (narrow) topic each of them obsessed over. Something that each of them raged to master and document — and then published to the world (via the World-Wide-Web).
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In the 1990s I created a niche narrowly focused web-site on OpenGL.
(OpenGL was a narrow topic I focused on at the time.)
It was part of my tilde-site.
(tilde-sites were common if you got your web-site from a University or ISP.)
Sadly, it didn't get archived by the Internet Archive 🙁
