IIRC that's where HTML5 Boilerplate started (H5BP), that developed and was used as the basis for Bootstrap.
H5BP is still available and there's a neat little packager, http://www.initializr.com/, that lets you include the parts you want and preconfigure it.
One reason to use a template system (with version control/plugins so you can modify locally and still merge in upstream changes and such) is that you can spend an awful lot of time keeping track of browser changes, standards changes, security issues, accessibility best practice, wide cross-browser testing and all the other niceties that go in to even a default template.
H5BP is still available and there's a neat little packager, http://www.initializr.com/, that lets you include the parts you want and preconfigure it.
One reason to use a template system (with version control/plugins so you can modify locally and still merge in upstream changes and such) is that you can spend an awful lot of time keeping track of browser changes, standards changes, security issues, accessibility best practice, wide cross-browser testing and all the other niceties that go in to even a default template.