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by dehef 2883 days ago
Not being ironic, I really like his website. Brutalism amateurs should take a look http://fultonhistory.com/ That is the perfect example (on desktop), no regard for the design, still perfectly functional (including back button etc..).

Edit: just noticed the use of jAlbum for the gallery. Just adding +1 to nostalgia :)

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Renders as a blank page with a color changing square in the lower right corner for me. Very minimalist.
I like it too. Reminds me of a similar ("not-ironic") site here in Brazil: https://www.ccdb.gea.nom.br/

This guy serves tens of thousands of pages of his master piece book called Gea, and even makes his own bizarre old style renderings and animations to go with it.

A recent rendering of his muse, Ky:

https://www.ccdb.gea.nom.br/ky_2019_altissima_resolucao_2758...

Brutalism != "no regard for design", but an initially unadorned and functional design that makes no attempt to hide materials and structure.
Wants me to install something called flash, no thanks
Flash isn't necessary to use the site. It seems to be used for a PDF display portion of the archive search's split-pane view. The search results are displayed fine without Flash.
Oh wow, thank you for pointing that out! You can barely see it because the internet is too fast these days, but after you click a link it says "A wise decision!"

EDIT: His donation page is here: http://fultonhistory.com/Donation%20paypal.html