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Ancient Web: Kitty's PageWorks Taught the Web to Wiggle in 1996

Kitty Roach's PageWorks is a surviving 1996-era workshop full of animated GIFs, buttons, holiday graphics, web-art tutorials, licensing notes, and advice for building a page when 250 colors still sounded like a specification.

Ancient Web: Big Beautiful Backgrounds Preserved the Era When Websites Wore Wallpaper

Big Beautiful Backgrounds survives as a relic of the period when building a homepage often began with choosing a tiny repeating texture, and free graphics directories acted as the design infrastructure of the personal Web.