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ELI5: How were websites created before web hosting services?

I know that you can create websites using services like WordPress, but before those existed how did people code websites and put them on the internet?
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<HEADER>HTMLv4 static web pages. <\HEADER>

<BODY>Geocities was a very popular tool with templates to make static HTML pages, or write your own code. You could host there, and setup a CNAME in DNS to get your custom domain to point to it.

There were also services you could rent space on other people’s servers for a monthly fee, just like today, but again: static HTML. 

You could also setup a web server in your home. Today it sounds scary AF to open a port in your firewall to a web server on your home network, but frankly back in 1990 almost nobody even had a firewall to speak of.<\BODY>