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2 days ago
A site in '96 would have been built largely with tables, not CSS. CSS didn't become a thing until a couple of years later.
I know this because I'm still salty about the transition. For all of CSS's advantages, we lost something when we largely moved away from tables.
We lost something for a time but flex box and CSS grid (which came more recently) are objectively better than tables.
How are they objectively better? They seem way too complex for me
You can still use tables.
Of course, as implied by, "we largely moved away from tables."