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Animated Engines first came online in 2000 [0], and has essentially been frozen in time ever since. Now contrast it with this [1] from 2021. It's amazing how much web technology progressed in those two decades.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20090216150235/http://animateden...

[1] https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/

That depth and shading on the player controls is really satisfying to me.

I saw an old screenshot of Reaper 2.0 yesterday with a similar style. Slightly skeumorphic, slightly stylized. I don't know what the style is called (I associate it with Windows XP?) but it looks way more friendly and engaging than anything I've seen in the last 15 years.

Also, this website has a sister: https://507movements.com/

Wooooow, I LOVED this site when it first came out and I still reference it when I talk about the early web and how it enabled me to learn things I never would have otherwise. I can still picture the animation of the wankel rotary engine from this site whenever I think about it.

This and howstuffworks.com made me so hopeful for the future of the web when I was young