This idea that a website could be 'done' was very much part of the old mentality from software people that software had to be shipped on floppy disc or cd-rom,

This idea that a website could be 'done' was very much part of the old mentality from software people that software had to be shipped on floppy disc or cd-rom, and you had no guaranteed patch ability after you shipped. The web 2.0 craze was largely about realizing how web is different than old cd-rom based distribution.