Late 90s for me and we were VERY into music so a lot of my early internet experience was on a site called shoutweb.com. It had news articles and forums dedicated to music and tours.
It was so much better to be able to search through and find different fan websites and forums. Nowadays that’s just Reddit and Facebook groups, and although I don’t use either anymore, they were never as good or as fun and compelling as all the fan sites made back in the day.
afaik those get deleted. However there shouldn’t be many images uploaded to that server specifically because the instance admins were really hesitant about ever opening image uploads much. They often advocated for using another 3rd party for image hosting.