I'm right there with you. These used to be the types of site designs and layouts we didn't want "back in the day" but loading them up these days is like a breath of fresh air, like the old geocities, xoom, etc sites.

Even inspecting the source and seeing HTML 4.0 Transitional, the capitalized tags, the bunch of duplicated meta tags and openoffice as generator no longer gives me the creeps as it would a while ago.

It's a labor of love and only the content matters, everything else is irrelevant! Never change, we do need more of these!

I felt a bit sad that the owner has to ask for donations to maintain it :(

It's a great site, but if it was meant as an archive, with today's resources, I reckon it could be hosted for free even. Idk, just feel a bit sad that the site would stop functioning if the owner couldn't afford to keep hosting it.

It's a shame we don't have a better solution than the Internet Archive for preserving these after the creator is gone (or loses interest), but thank goodness we do have that. So many gems lost to time otherwise.

Then let me introduce you to one of my favorites in a similar style: https://www.lathes.co.uk/page21.html

For us lovers of Old Iron :-)