From 2004, this was zeldman.com in the iconic green design

As an aspiring designer back in the late 90s, I (and possibly most code-by-hand and IE-on-Mac web designer types) followed Jeffrey Zeldman‘s site.

Reading Zeldman do a retrospective on his site is a like a history lesson on how the modern standards-based web came to be. And for each throwback, I had flashbacks of my own and felt exactly like the sad sacks in T2.