I think the skin is cool, and I've been online since 1200 baud was considered blazingly fast.
I hear you mother. Text based Compuserve FTL.
Anyone complaining that the skin looks too "old" or 2000ish isn't looking closely enough at the amount of detail put in. Having some experience designing websites wayyy back in the 1996 - 2000 range, I can tell you it would have been quite difficult to put together something like this.
If you don't like the colors, fine, switch it back. But there's no reason to attempt to put the site designers down when you do it. While you're at it, feel free to post up one of your own projects that you've worked hard on as a volunteer so that others can crap all over it in an inappreciative manner.