The Japanese web is delightful

The Japanese web feels like it stopped at 1.0 and it's a delight.

Remember when webpages were simply dense information-delivery mechanisms? I present: the Iwate Prefectural Library. I mean come on.

I only just realised in pasting that link, that's even an old-school index.html! None of this fancy-dancy just end with a directory path nonsense.

Here's the Morioka City Marathon: just a colourful page, full of information.

Our web got so bland; everything just this homogenous lump of rounded-corner pastel. I don't know how the Japanese have held on to theirs. A function of isolation, I suppose?

Either way, I'm envious.