Not many people had their own website in the late 90s

Your post is pretty nonsensical anyway, but if anything more people had their own websites as a proportion of the web, with Geocities and Angelfire etc. This was before social media, so to have a presence on the web you had to have your own site, and people did.

This is not stated accurately. The American versions of pizza and carbonara we’re invented in the US, but there were and are original Italian versions.

This is such a clever part of the protocol. So many different UIs are possible with the same underlying framework and data.