Had the same kind of page at his age. AngelFire and Geocities. Was also scripting my own "eZine" in ASP for a music news page that summarized articles around the web, linked to them and allowed reader comments. This was a pretty new concept at the time (in the "mainstream"... Slashdot started it in 97) the term blog didn't really exist yet. However, I'm not sure I saw the web as "small," it just was what it was. He had good sensibilities to recognize its potential at that age and time.
