So what? It still is just text and graphics! The fact that it "looked like shit" was far more attributable to the absence of designers and professionals at the time, and of professionally designed templates.
HTML tables for layout sucked - but you could get graphics and text on the page, nothing more is on that page we are talking about here.
Do you think to get better graphics and better layout options for static HTML pages we needed to first get Gigahertz Intel i5 CPUs, combined with Gigabytes of RAM and capable graphics GPUs?
HTML tables for layout sucked - but you could get graphics and text on the page, nothing more is on that page we are talking about here.
Do you think to get better graphics and better layout options for static HTML pages we needed to first get Gigahertz Intel i5 CPUs, combined with Gigabytes of RAM and capable graphics GPUs?