I vaguely recall those, but they were more for normies trying to get online. For me the old web is what I saw when I logged into my university gopher server and saw the advertisement for something called the World Wide Web which I could browse via lynx. Soon enough I got a PPP connection and then Mosaic/Netscape 1.0. However everything after javascript shipped (let alone CSS) is new new new. I'd almost go as far as saying if it doesn't have a tilde in the URL it's not old web... almost...
That’s the prehistoric web or maybe that’s BBSs…
I’m vaguely remembering tilde username for our public html folders. Was that old Apache behavior?
And now I wonder if Apache is even still common. I spent so much time fiddling with apache configs.