Comment by junon

It's a joke, a meme response to "games looked so bad back then" types of comments made about games built during the CRT era and played on modern "perfect pixel", so to say, monitors.

https://www.datagubbe.se/crt/

Also, yeah. The site was ugly, you're not missing or misunderstanding anything. It's pure nostalgia to those who experienced the web back then, a reminder of a simpler, more ideal time in the internet's life.