Pic rel is from a website run by a otaku girl, Gabrielle, who had a weird crush on commander ikari and would photoshop him into absolutely everything.
She was among the last of an era of the internet; web pages called "web shrines". Which were just personal websites made by normal people like you and I and we would just put our favorite stuff on it and it had a guestbook where visitors from all over could leave comments. Older nerds put family photos and/or personal science projects. Weebs just put pics of their favorite media. Ads were rare. Instead there were buttons that were links to other similar, relevant websites that would form a "web ring". And that was one of the ways to waste time; to click through a web ring and read and collect pics you liked.
Angelfire and Geocities was the popular wepbage hosts, so anyone could have a small website for free, without managing a server.

At the time, webrings were the best way to find anything. It was like internet "word of mouth". There were no search engines back then. Yahoo! and AOL were battling to be the choice search engine, but they sucked. Ask Jeeves became a thing to solve the problem and was hardly better. Google wouldn't come until much later.