I was doing web design in the early days. I recall the thrill of thinking how the possibilities were endless.

This article reminds me of "A List Apart". That website is still running, incidentally.

Evolt finally shut down last year:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240206220342/https://lists.evo...

However their browser archive, where you can download ancient versions of over a hundred different web browsers, is still online:

https://browsers.evolt.org

And that was back when browsers had their own rendering engines and they weren’t all based on Blink, Gecko, or WebKit!