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Retro
Simulated TV channels by decade, old operating systems and the specific texture of an interface designed for a CRT.
14 sites
Windows 98 rebuilt in JavaScript, right down to the window chrome and the sound the error dialogs make.
A collage assembled entirely from GeoCities pages — every GIF, marquee and tiled background salvaged and put back to work.
A search engine that strips every result down to plain HTML so it can be read on a genuinely ancient computer. Also very fast.
A search engine for animated GIFs recovered from GeoCities. Type any word and receive several spinning versions of it.
Noughties television as it actually was, which is more unsettling than the eighties version because you remember most of it.
A simulated television set showing nothing but 1980s programming and adverts, complete with channel dial and static between stations.
The same idea moved a decade forward. Flip channels through the nineties and land somewhere between a cartoon and a cereal advert.
A free host built as a deliberate successor to GeoCities, full of hand-written personal pages by people who wanted to make one.
A vaporwave station running continuously since 2015, wrapped in a desktop you can rearrange while it plays.
A radio station styled as a 1980s Macintosh, playing the sort of music that assumes you are near a pool and not at work.
A proxy that serves archived pages as period browsers expected them, so a 1998 machine can still get online and see 1998.
Screenshots of thousands of websites from 1991 onward, arranged so you can watch entire interface conventions appear and die.
A parody desktop that gets progressively stranger the more of its programs you open. Start with the solitaire and keep going.
An operating system that never existed, built in a browser, with its own applications and a genuine sense of its own history.
One button, one detour. Press it as often as you like.