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I miss all the personal home pages. You could get a real sense of who somebody was based on what they chose to display. Maybe they had pictures of the favourite game or tv show, or their own little web diary. Now its all just santizied profile pages that have virtually zero room for creativity. It's too sterile now.
One thing I enjoyed about myspace was how much you could personalize your page with even just a smidge of html-fu. I knew some people that got so good that you wouldn't even know you were still on myspace unless you looked at the address bar.
Yes! I keep tumblr around for this exact reason. I want to have a billion cute pixel gifs all over whatever account I have. I know it's not for everyone but it just makes me so happy.
I used to host my portfolio site through them actually.
It is very simple and inexpensive (pretty much free) to host a personal website on GCP (Google) or AWS (Amazon). They reach have a free or near free tier. Unfortunately, that requires some technical know how, but it's nothing somebody that can write HTML by hand can't handle.