HTML? More like ACHE-TML!

Where did it go wrong? Why has such a simple mark-up language turn into the bloated, over-compensation it is today? What do you turn to? XML? CSS? XHTML? PHP? CGI? ASP? SQL? PERL? HEX? BINARY? ELECTRICAL PULSES? INFARED? TWO CUPS ON A STRING?

>>12
Unnecessarily verbose (something that was pretty important especially back when everybody was surfing with a 56 Kbps modem connected at 40…48 Kbps) and pretty annoying to type.

>>13
I've read the full CSS2 specification and can even stroke my penis with it, dumbass. And yet, pure CSS2 layouts have their inconveniences too, so I usually do the overall layout with tables.