Not surprising, really. At their core, many of these people rose to prominence in an earlier era, before the web even existed. Most of their personal pages ref

Not surprising, really. At their core, many of these people rose to prominence in an earlier era, before the web even existed. Most of their personal pages reflect this. The people Brian worked with at Bell Labs really were (first and foremost) programmers and probably either wrote their personal pages with simple HTML or used a tool to generate it from some other language. As a result it's usually not very pretty. Stroustrup is a slight exception, as his page at Morgan Stanley is quite "corporate-looking"[1], but his personal site is very much in the same vein as the others. When you think of the Old Guard of the web, it's usually names like Zeldman, Meyer, Marcotte, et al that have anything which resembles the web as we know it today. [1]: https://www.morganstanley.com/profiles/bjarne-stroustrup-managing-director-technology https://www.morganstanley.com/profiles/bjarne-stroustrup-man...