Ooh, 2advanced - as a high-school kid, I must have starred at versions of their "website" for more than 15h in total, in awe, and trying to soak in the pure awesomeness, hoping that it would affect how good early versions of my site will turn out :) Where "my site" was approx 200h of work over something like 15 revisions and complete redo's for a "portfolio" site with 1 design in it :D Good times - I think my parents would have preferred if I just hang out outside and did drugs at that point :D
Same, it really set the bar on what I would try and create during that time. I really liked Flash and its creative tools - I was really hoping the web would continue to make awesome sites with even better tools based on pure HTML.
Mobiles pretty much destroyed all of it as we focus on making sites that can render well on any screen size now.
