"I was there Gandalf" and Citrus Cheesecake either overlapped chronologically a lot more than OP realizes or Citrus Cheesecake went on for a lot longer than I knew, because I definitely experienced everything in that era before everything in the first one.

I remember the websites where every page you clicked on would have a different background color (or worse, a tiled image as the background) and font style/color, so there were some stories I never read because I liked my eyes not bleeding. Websites with auto-playing midi files, ugh. Ditto for sites that used tiny animated gifs for page breaks.