For a long time letters were only written by hand. Nowadays the only people writing them by hand are the people who truly want it.
In the early days you really had no choice. There was no WordPress, no MySpace and no Github Pages. It was the norm because it was the easiest thing to do if you wanted a presence on the web. If something like Facebook existed in 1993 let me assure you a whole lot of people would have been contempt with just creating a profile there and calling it quits.
There are more personal websites today than there ever were, people who want to be creative on the web always find a way.
In the early days you really had no choice. There was no WordPress, no MySpace and no Github Pages. It was the norm because it was the easiest thing to do if you wanted a presence on the web. If something like Facebook existed in 1993 let me assure you a whole lot of people would have been contempt with just creating a profile there and calling it quits.
There are more personal websites today than there ever were, people who want to be creative on the web always find a way.