I still write sites like this. I realize this is not "the way" to do things today by many, but I find it works quite well and it avoids a lot of complexity. I t

I still write sites like this. I realize this is not "the way" to do things today by many, but I find it works quite well and it avoids a lot of complexity. I think the "classic" web-apps were given a bit of an undeserved bad rep because a lot were written in bad PHP and bad JavaScript, and people conflated that with "this entire approach is wrong".