To be honest, my inclusion of audio when someone hovered over a link was just because of my sheer joy at the ability to quickly and easily do so, rather than the morass that would've been required in the Before Times. That was the only reason. And yes, it was annoying. Sorry.
"I'm thinking I'll write a list of all the reasons the 2000s were somewhat terrible" - Please do lol, I notice a lot of people in this sphere were single digits around then and don't know the full scope. The internet was (somewhat) better and so was media (IMO), but that's only so much...
You might notice this is a semi-major update, but not why! I've added a few lines of Javascript which expand the text and central column when displayed in neocities's screenshots, and also have finally combined most of my Javascript into a single file.
Thank you, but I give primary credit to https://foollovers.com for providing the gorgeous materials and initial template. I just changed a few things.