This is because marketing weasels had just discovered the hottest new tech of the day: meta tags. And immediately set about polluting them. At one point in the mid 90s about half the web that existed at the time was tagged “Anna Kournikova naked”.
(Probably many on HN are too young to remember her... imagine Taylor Swift x10, that was her popularity back then)
(Probably many on HN are too young to remember her... imagine Taylor Swift x10, that was her popularity back then)