The web still lets you build your own thing; now's the time to do it. Evening clouds in Okanagan Lake Park, Peachland, British Columbia, Canada. ©️2026 Robin Monks. When I started using the internet, Ask Jeeves seemed on top of the search game, Yahoo was still the front page of the internet, and you often found cool new websites to visit from magazines sold at the grocery store checkout. Facebook wasn't a thing yet (the blissful ignorance we had back then), and we stayed in touch with AIM or MSN Messenger with friends or maybe even IRC . We had a very immature internet. "Web 2.0" hadn't entered the vernacular.…