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A parody desktop that gets progressively stranger the more of its programs you open. Start with the solitaire and keep going.
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Windows 93 sits in Retro Web under Retro, and we have it filed as coffee break — five to fifteen minutes of proper attention. It reads as weird and nostalgic.
Simulated TV channels by decade, old operating systems and the specific texture of an interface designed for a CRT.
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.