I was the first validation nazi, young grasshopper. I was
the one who pushed for validation back when you were still running windows 98
That link is to Zeldman's site from a post of his in 2001:
"Web Community meets Web Standards: UBB Developers has posted an XHTML 1.0-compliant template for the most-used forum script on the web."
I made HTML 4.01 compliant templates before that... made bug-squishing browser display issues soooo much easier.