Same, taught myself HTML over a summer in high school. Literally went to a library and printed out a tutorial I found on the Internet.

I will say though, if you haven’t heard of it, there’s a small movement to get back to more organic web content. There’s the Fediverse for social media that isn’t algorithmically-weighted. There’s NeoCities for web pages. There’s Mojeek and Marginalia for search. (Marginalia is all non-commercial, so its search index is interesting.)

There’s still a lot of good out there.