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?

Goddammit. CSS was invented to separate content from presentation. Table layouts violate that. There are many reasons why that's bad (mostly related to maintainability and user experience).