I can't hear DHTML without thinking DHTML Lemmings[0]. It blew me away 18 years ago and still makes me grin today.

[0]: https://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/

That reminds me of my days doing shudder ColdFusion and seeing Microsoft Liquid Motion, their short-lived Macromedia Flash competitor.

Well and DHTML immediately reminds me of Dreamweaver and trying to make everything compatible with IE and Netscape with a lot of browser detection.

I miss the people I worked with back then. But not UI work. As bad as it was, it was less complicated and more stable than it seems to be today.

And I don't miss people asking me to make something "more green" that is #0000FF. To paraphrase Spinal Tap: "None. None more green"

Modals drive me crazy on the modern web -- I wonder why there's been no pushback equivalent to "actual" pop-up blocking

Ah you're right, and how could we forget <frame>(s)?!