WebMonkey was the go-to spot for anyone learning how to build websites back in the late ’90s and early 2000s, when the internet felt like the wild west. Launched in 1996 under the Wired Digital umbrella, it became the ultimate DIY web guide with tutorials on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and later PHP as the web evolved. It was constantly updated through the dot-com boom, dropping step-by-step guides and “cheat sheets” as new browser versions like Netscape 4 and Internet Explorer 5 rolled out. By the early 2000s, WebMonkey was where beginners and hobbyists got their hands dirty building personal sites, fan pages, and early e-commerce experiments—basically, it was Stack Overflow before Stack Overflow existed.