[mysticlabs]

Not sure which 2006-2008 you lived through, but this was pretty standard web design back then. YouTube from 2007: https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/timeline/youtube-2007

Had the company been allowed to exist and compete fairly, it would have evolved into something more modern and mobile friendly. Judging a startup from before the pre-mobile era, and blaming the design for its failure is kind of silly.

This was the norm back then, if I were creating a video sharing website in 2019 of course I'd approach it differently, but alas there's no point in even trying.