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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.

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.

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.

Authenticity.