I spent way too much time on undernet during the same period of time, mostly on #asp. I got my first and second programming jobs through friends I made there.
Wasn't there a site ran by one of the #html ops, htmlcenter or something like that?
There was! But I can't for the life of me remember who or what the site address was.
I knew I had made it when I became a server op on EFnet.