I extracted myself from Google Photos in 2019. Geolocation was a nightmare. I ended up using exiftool to merge the metadata from JSON available in Takeout.
I've had a personal website since the GeoCities days, which I built in Corel Web Designer (I think that's what it was called). It was mostly a homage to U2 which was my favorite band at the time. It was a wonderful way to learn HTML.
I hope personal websites make a comeback. My current site has been going since 2007 and is in Hugo.