Dreamweaver 3 dropped in late 1999, right when building websites still felt like the Wild West, and it became the go-to tool for anyone serious about making the jump from clunky HTML editors to something faster. Macromedia had already made waves with Dreamweaver 1.0 in 1997 and 2.0 in 1998, but 3 was the version that really clicked—it gave you a clean split view with WYSIWYG on one side and raw code on the other, plus better site management and baked-in support for JavaScript behaviors. It was lightweight, fast for its time, and perfect for the era of dial-up web design when slapping together table-based layouts and GIF-heavy pages was the standard. Dreamweaver 3 was basically the bridge between hand-coding everything and the bloated web builders that came later, and if you were online back then, you probably remember that teal-and-yellow icon staring back at you on Windows 98 or a gumdrop iMac.