If I recall, yes. I don't think clientside maps hit till HTML 3.2
Paul Graham's website uses image maps for the nav bar, it's the only place I can recall seeing them off the top of my head.
That one's a client-side image map.
And completely unnecessary. Should be a list of text links.
IIRC the Apple website used to use (client side image maps) them. But I suspect that was Mai my so they could do some research where users actually click on their screen.