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> Palaeontologists have described more than 20,000 species of trilobites, ranging in body length from less than two millimetres to more than 90 centimetres.

The trilobite.info site has lots of drawings of all the different trilobites that have been described: https://www.trilobites.info/

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I love finding old internet style websites like this. Simple, fast, packed full of information.

> trilobites.info

Damn this website is amazing!

This website perfectly illustrates how website design has gone horribly wrong in the last 24 years.

I love the design of that website.

I didn’t design it but my HTML 3.0 skills from the 90s could have. That being said, it’s not laden with ads and is fairly easy to navigate which is pretty nice. The mobile view looks like a desktop version scrunched into my phone but is still alright, I guess.

What do you like about the design?

I like how it feels unique and themes itself around the content it contains. Instead of just being yet another website with a flat simple design. We need more websites like this.

I like that it's unassuming and content-driven. It doesn't communicate an aspiration to be a design object or project focus group assumptions about user experience.

It just presents a lot of information and makes that information appropriately navigable. The lack of trendy design language makes me believe that the operator knows and cares about the subject matter itself, which I find reassuring and refreshing in a world that's become saturated in blogspam, SEO, subscription sales, and ad engagement.

Authenticity.

Gives me nostalgia for learning about random subjects on the early web, pre-Wikipedia. Stumbling upon a site like this would be a treasure trove if you were interested in these back in the day.

The website itself is like a fossil.

Straight out of 1990s!

Many of the pages have:

  <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD NSCPCD47 (Win95; I) [Netscape]">

which would place them around 1999.

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