You, sir, deserve a Pulitzer Prize for this. I smiled and yet shed tears of pain reading this. I worked for a web dev studio in the mid ‘90s. That was so rare. We had a partnership with a design and marketing firm because we were really the only ones in quite a wide area that knew how to code. To top it off, we were an Oracle database partner and would service big and upcoming companies. A database tied to a website, that was next level. LOL.
Those were the days. I kinda miss them. Everything was new and unexplored.