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Oh...the days of blink, frames and animated gif. We thought we were so creative then :)

Don't forget the "mirrored in water" Java applet, loaded 50 times, once for each image.

LOL...the reflection was awesome. Remember the java applet authoring tool macromedia initially released-way before flash?

Don't forget the eponymous "Under construction" animated gif. The halcyon days of web design.

Don't forget the "tables" used for layout.

Oh wait, my bank still does this. Oh wait, so does Yale University.

Also, the only way to use the "remaining" space when you have two fixed width columns inside a bigger div IIRC :P

display: (table | table-cell | table-row);

Same layout functionality, no abuse of HTML semantics.

Oh wait, so does Hacker News

Which is why I think it is rather humours that Jquery is using it on their plugin page. http://plugins.jquery.com/