It's a nice nostalgic reminder of what the web used to be - when it was just made up of people wanting to express their interests.
A time where ads, tracking and Javascript weren't a thing.
3 big graphical ads, and if you click on the "best sites" thing on the bottom, it links to an analytics site. On mobile, so I'm not really setup to investigate further.
But I do miss sites that were done just because someone loved something.
The “best sites” link really should have gone to the Circus Fans Webring
Or somebody testing how many bot votes they need to get Hackernews attention. If I were to do one of these tests I would do with a very unrelated/uninteresting page/post.
This is HN. They'll upvote anything.
My guess is that it was originally submitted with a different title, which the editors have since changed to the title of the linked site, making it impossible now to understand why it was submitted or the context of the older comments.
The title has not been changed according to this tracker.[1]