[fletchowns]

I think my text highlighting habit started in the late 90s when the prominent N64 website (what was the name of it??) would have text intentionally "hidden" on the page in the same color as the background, so you had to highlight to see it.

[1bpp]

You might mean N64.com, which later evolved into IGN64/IGN

[fletchowns]

Yeah I think that was it!