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It wasn't so much "horror" as "this designer wants rounded corners". AJAX was well-understood but not yet standardized or widely supported, which is down to slow standardization bodies and browser developers like Microsoft and nowadays Google doing their own thing.

Anyway, show us your HTML site, document how you built it - that's the kind of thing this page is advocating for.

This era is before optimizing for browsers.

I like how you say this last part out loud, even with some sense of pride, it seems.

> What a bunch of crap.

> Nowadays i just have to prompt Claude

The second behavior leads to the first statement.