May I present Well Made Web, a gallery of inventive and distinguished websites: https://wmw.thran.uk

One example is Internet Related Technologies which was reporting on new web standards during 1998-2001, last updated in 2001 and still online for all that time: https://wmw.thran.uk/dowdy/2.html#irt

From IRT we have why use CSS, in case anyone still needs convinced: https://irt.org/articles/js135/