I happened to go through some.
I have gone through similar websites before also.
What I have understood is that they tried to communicate as much as information in one page with the power of different color, which when compared with modern days stands (layout, color, ideas, etc) looks old and unplesent.
The person who did this had newspaper in mind I think:
http://webpagesthatsuck.smugmug.com/gal ... dDDkt-A-LBThe person who did this wants to highlight it as much as possible:
http://www.dokimos.org/ajff/And the person who did this wants his website to be as simple as possible:
http://www.timecube.com/