I remember having to do an image map as part of a web design project in school, circa 2005. True to 2005, the image was one simple rectangular banner at the top of the page, with text for different pages like About and Portfolio etc. placed along it. It felt like a (cool) hack that you could define regions for the text to route to different pages on click.

Of course we have modern solutions [0] nowadays but that sure seemed cool 20 years ago!

0: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonito...