[worik]

Wow.

I was doing Web development in 1999 for a year or too

I never got that deep.

But I recall clearly adopting a left/right column for static content and center column for the CGI output custom stuff.

Choose that format because IIRC it was easy to implement in straight HTML

I looked at CSS then, but it did not make sense business wise when we could make vanilla HTML work.

It was a different world