I don't get it, what have we lost? Having to wait for pictures to load? Surely this is just nostalgia?
It's actually refreshing to see someone doing their own thing, like, truly their own thing.
That said, the dude could use some CSS-skills.
Although I can totally imagine the reaction of someone like that to modern web frameworks. He might be inspired to roll-his-own... he did with EDA CAD as the creator of KISSCAD.