[SuzyM]

I taught myself HTML from a children's book(!) and Geocities hosted my first amateur website; I miss it still. I liked that there was an option for hand-coding your HTML rather than use a website builder, an option most free hosts don't now have. I am very grateful for Neocities!

[Fej]

Same here... except it was (Free)webs. Back then, they let you code your own pages as long as you put a little banner that had their logo on it somewhere on each page. Don't know if they do anything like that anymore.