It’s like a slice of the earlier web. Realized I haven’t seen a c|net logo around for a long time.
I had completely forgotten how beautiful antique designs are
Despite being a web dev back in that era, I had totally forgotten about best practice back then being to add "click here for [...]" in link text. Because users didn't necessarily understand what links were!
Nostalgic maybe, but not sure it qualifies as beautiful.
there was a time when this, exactly this, was the future. It's old hat now, and soon too will modern web design seem clunky and outdated.