That center tag thing is exactly how it went for everyone back then, and it's actually a good lesson for fixing old pages today. The whole web was built on nesting, so a center tag wrapped around a table was the easiest way to make a box sit in the middle without any CSS at all. When people try to "fix" those pages with modern tricks, they end up fighting the old layout instead of just going with it. The trick is to look at the page the way the kid who made it did, with the simplest tools that existed at the time. Tables inside tables inside a center tag was basically the whole design system in 1999. You could take that same idea and use it on any old page you dig up, just match the era's tools instead of dragging in flexbox and grid.

Kept a log for two years and quit because the number didn't mean much. Sleeping in a tent in the yard counts the same as a backcountry night, so 100 can be real and still not feel like much. Not saying your trips weren't legit, just that the count is more of a diary than a score.