Watched my uncle's Angelfire page go from gray text on white to spinning skull gifs in about two years

Ben Lopez · 2026-09-21T01:30:02.582395+00:00

My uncle Gene put up his first page on Angelfire back in 1997, and it was just plain text about his model trains with zero pictures. By 1999 he had a black background, a flame divider, a hit counter, and a MIDI file of "Take On Me" blasting the second you loaded it, all because he found a tutorial site called HTML Goodies and taught himself tables. Did your family members go through the same glow-up with their pages, or did they stay stuck on gray text forever?

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