Responsive design out of the box? Were you actually there? Back in 2000 you could make a career out of scripting browser polyfills or "DHTML".
[0]: and to using dozens of images sliced to fit your table cells, for that cool hover effect as well as round corners. :-)
And there was nothing wrong with tables for layout, especially back then when the alternatives were very brittle.
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> And there was nothing wrong with tables for layout, especially back then when the alternatives were very brittle.
I never said there was anything wrong with tables. OP said there was nothing preventing the design from being responsive, to which I responded yes, there was, at least in a lot of cases.
(Responsiveness was also mostly irrelevant back then because smartphones were not a thing yet.)