Web development in 2000 worked like this: take an editor, any editor, open a file and write:
<html> <head> <title>My really great site</title> </head> <body bgcolor="white"> And here we go... </body> </html> We didn't have any good things back then. When I started with the stuff, CSS already existed, barely, but its main task back then was to make an unsolvable problem even more complicated and even more unsolvable: to make sure that the same website looked exactly the same on two different browsers while the developers of said browsers have absolutely no interest in having websites that look the same across the board.