Records a page as you browse it, capturing the parts a crawler cannot — logged-in views, video, anything behind a click.
Opens in a new tab. We do not control this site and it may have changed since we catalogued it.
Conifer sits in Web Archives under Retro, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Archives, dead websites brought back and search pointed at the past. What the web looked like before it settled down.
Yes. Conifer is free to use, though it asks you to sign up.
Yes. Conifer asks you to create an account before you get far.
Not well. We file Conifer as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
Archived research papers, including preprints and journals that have since folded, kept readable rather than merely cited.
Thematic collections captured around elections, disasters and cultural moments, chosen by librarians rather than by a crawler.
Browses the archives through emulated period browsers, so an old page renders the way it did rather than the way Chrome guesses.
Curated collections around specific research subjects, preserved because a university decided they would matter later.
Generates hero images — gradients, particles, triangles, topography — at whatever resolution you need, free to download.
Chrome, flames and bevelled gradients — the 2003 logo generator, still online and still producing exactly that.
Hit the space bar for a five-colour palette, lock the ones you like, hit it again. The whole tool is that loop.
The biggest browser arcade going, with genuinely decent HTML5 ports and a search that mostly finds the game you meant.
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