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AOL hometown pages: personal communities inside an access provider's world | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: How AOL Hometown gave millions of subscribers a public page inside the company's walled-garden community, how residents found each other through screen names, and what the 2008 shutdown did to their on-service identities.

Ancient Web: LGR Kept the Personal Homepage Alive Beside YouTube

Lazy Game Reviews grew into a major retro-computing video channel, but its own website kept the deliberately simple personal-homepage feel: direct links, an old-school layout, and a domain that remained separate from the platform carrying most of the audience.