In her cool essay on the aesthetics of early web design, Olia Lialina quotes Tim Berners-Lee from 1998:

They may call it a home page, but it’s more like the gnome in somebody’s front yard than the home itself.

Lialina discusses 1990s era advances in web design, ranging from animated GIFs (and their related subcategory, animated under construction graphics), animated cursors, and glitter. With many nostalgically disturbing examples. Sort of like seeing a picture of yourself in 1983 with a mullet, although Lialina is more generous and less condescending that current discussions of mullets—or early web design—tend to be.

[via Your Daily Awesome]