Why Design Matters. A pictorial history of microsoft.com
If you designed websites (even for a club or small business) in the mid-90's, you recall the experience of working with tables and invisible GIFs for layout, proprietary HTML tags (ie <marquee>), scrolling banners, and the popularity of the starfield as a webpage background. The Heaven's Gate Cult followed these design principles, and as you can see in the pictorial history below, it appears that we did so at Microsoft as well. Enjoy the progression!
https://www.microsoft.com/misc/features/features_flshbk.htm
April 1994 to August 1995
August 1995 to November 1995
November 1995 to June 1996
June 1996 to August 1996
August 14, 1996 to November 15, 1996
November 15, 1996 to September 29, 1997
September 29, 1997 to November 30, 1998
November 30, 1998 to November 2006
January 2007 to Present