Dear cluttered homepage with seventeen categories and a font choice that predates the iPhone,
I see you. I appreciate you more than you know.
Everyone is obsessed with clean design right now. Minimal. White space. One hero image, one headline, one button. Websites that look like they were designed by someone who owns exactly three pieces of furniture and considers that a personality. Beautiful, sure. Useful? Debatable.
You, on the other hand, are a disaster. Your layout hasn’t changed since the Obama administration. Your color scheme was clearly chosen by someone who thought teal and orange were a power combination. You have a visitor counter at the bottom. An actual visitor counter. It reads 2,847,391 and I believe every single one of those visits.
But here’s what you have that the beautiful websites don’t: everything I need, exactly where I expect it to be.
This is the quiet genius of old-school 주소모음 sites and link directories that never bothered to rebrand. They were organized by humans who used them daily, tweaked by people who noticed when something was hard to find, and left alone when they worked. No UX consultant came in to simplify them into uselessness. No rebrand wiped the institutional knowledge embedded in their structure.
The new internet is gorgeous and increasingly hard to navigate. The old internet was ugly and you always knew where you were.
I’m not saying we should go back. I’m saying maybe the sites that never left deserve a little more credit than we give them.
Yours sincerely, Someone who just found what they were looking for in forty seconds flat.