1997? Well, the restaurant opened in 2016.

https://www.seattletimes.com/life/food-drink/dinos-tomato-pi...

nice, good catch. looks like it's just a retro design (by "dino's cousin"): https://madebyneversink.com/projects

And yet it's so much easier to navigate than many of today's websites.

This really is a great distillation of the web when I first got online, from the cheesy gifs to the marquee elements, and the neon colors, marking links as "NEW" or "HOT", and "This site is best viewed with Netscape." The site is actually self hosting a zip file of Netscape 4.7.2! It's a real fossil for sure.

Wow. It loads instantly on my phone. Even HN needs 30 seconds.

How on earth does HN take 30 seconds but a website full of animated gifs is instant? HN loads instantly for me.

Damn they had me fooled.