[HN Gopher] Animated Engines
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Animated Engines
Author : surprisetalk
Score : 62 points
Date : 2026-02-05 20:20 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (animatedengines.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (animatedengines.com)
| MontyCarloHall wrote:
| 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.
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| [0]
| https://web.archive.org/web/20090216150235/http://animateden...
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| [1] https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/
| helterskelter wrote:
| [1] impresses me every time I see the link come up. I wish
| they'd do a Wankel.
| andai wrote:
| 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/
| ericskiff wrote:
| 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
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