I Googled for the lyrics to “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” and up came [this ancient HTML document from the days of Web 2.0](https://stuff.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/poetry/poems/meanGrinch.html).
I’ve noticed that Google will often point me to these very old, rudimentary webpages that are 20 years old or so, and often hosted at American universities like MIT.
So my question is, why do these websites exist in the first place, and why do they still exist?
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Universities in the 90s had a combination of good bandwidth and plenty of storage space for stuff like this, they generally gave their students webspace to post things and while it was generally used for serious research and such, some was used for random stuff like this. Also, if anyone is going through and pruning random websites from their hosts it’s the geeky IT/CompSci people who posted a lot of it in the first place, so they’re less inclined to take it down especially since it prolly doesn’t get a ton of traffic and a website like that is not using much storage.
So, you can find a lot of stuff like this on American Universities because that was what the internet was like 20+ years ago, universities were the heart of it, and the folks who attended the universities are the ones who are running the IT departments so they’re more likely to hang onto their nostalgia.
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