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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The first readily available and affordable web hosting was available to university students. And students often had the interest and time to build hobby websites. If universities don’t delete the old sites, they may just hang out there even after the student graduated.
I first learned web design because my university offered free web hosting space. I taught myself HTML and built a couple sites back in 1996 or so.
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