To be fair, back in 1997 the internet was "almost" owned by one company in a way: AOL ;) I have a tough time taking a lot of those old designs as "crappy" thou

To be fair, back in 1997 the internet was "almost" owned by one company in a way: AOL ;) I have a tough time taking a lot of those old designs as "crappy" though. I mean some of them were seizure inducing for sure, but there were a lot of pages that were very readable and above all else, very simple. E.G. http://www.baddesigns.com/ http://www.baddesigns.com/ Of course modern sites still carry the spirit in some way. http://stallman.org http://stallman.org Side note: A site sans MC Hammer is not awesome ;)