📼 Nostalgic

Minecraft skin editor with a 3D preview you can spin, plus a gallery of other people's skins to take apart and reuse.

The pop-tart cat, the rainbow and the song, with a counter for how many seconds of your life you have handed over.

Nine hundred thousand digitised items from the New York Public Library, a large share of it public domain.

The LiveJournal community that outlived LiveJournal, still posting celebrity news with the comment threads doing the work.

Search hundreds of thousands of scanned historical maps by place and date, held by libraries worldwide.

The 2007 build of RuneScape, still updated by player vote and still fully playable in a browser tab you should not have open.

Radio drama, comedy and serials from before television took over, in quantities that would take several lifetimes to finish.

Eighty thousand New York photographs from the 1870s onwards, mapped to the corners they were shot on.

Browses the archives through emulated period browsers, so an old page renders the way it did rather than the way Chrome guesses.

An encyclopedia of the world's writing systems, including the invented, the extinct and the barely attested.

Screenshots of archived GeoCities pages posted automatically, one after another, as a rolling portrait of the amateur web.

Multi-instrument piano roll in a browser, backed by thousands of user sequences you can open, pull apart and ruin.

Hand-curated index of several thousand active blogs, sorted by subject, for when you want writing rather than a feed.

Colourises black-and-white photographs, then lets you steer the result by describing the colours you wanted in words.

Build sundaes to order under mounting time pressure, the most polished entry in a series about the dignity of service work.

The original of the Papa's series, where tips fund your upgrades and customers absolutely notice an undercooked base.

Historically accurate emulations of early PCs, down to the timing, with the original manuals and ROM listings alongside.

The longest-running games comic on the web, three strips a week since 1998, plus the posts that built an industry.

A plain list of personal websites, each added by its owner. Pick any name and you land on somebody's homepage, built exactly how they like it.

Puts your face on billboards, banknotes and museum walls using several hundred templates. Aggressively 2009.

Grid, palette, mouse. The whole tool fits on one page and you are drawing about three seconds after it loads.

Feed it a photograph and it hands back a pixel-art version, with block size and palette entirely under your control.

Two decades of the pixel art scene's best work, still curated by hand and still running weekly drawing challenges.

A plain, fast game server that has outlived every redesign trend since 2001 and still hosts chess, draughts and mahjong.

Every Poe story and poem with annotations, a timeline and a vocabulary tool, kept by one enthusiast since the early web.

An eternal-summer radio station dressed as an old Macintosh desktop, playing the soundtrack to a holiday you never actually took.

Thousands of American industrial, educational and advertising films, all public domain and all quietly extraordinary.

Seventy thousand public domain books, plain and free, from the oldest digital library on the internet.

Pick a country and a decade on a world map and hear what people there were actually listening to, curated by humans since 1900.

Pixel American football hiding a full franchise manager behind six-second passing plays. Has ruined more workdays than it should have.

Eight and sixteen-bit console libraries running in the browser, organised by system, with save states that actually work.

Run through a tunnel in space where the walls become the floor whenever you turn. An entire generation played this instead of maths.

Drag one slider from quantum foam to the cosmic web, with every object in between labelled at its true size.

A daily high-resolution photograph from the early twentieth century, usually with commenters identifying the buildings.

Doom compiled to WebAssembly and running at full speed in a tab, which is either nostalgia or a small engineering miracle.

The seat-pocket catalogue survived the airline it came with and moved online, still selling garden yetis to a captive audience.

News for nerds since 1997, with tech headlines and threaded comments kept in order by a reader moderation system older than most social networks.

Listener-funded, advert-free channels out of San Francisco, Drone Zone and Groove Salad among them, going since the dial-up era.

The South Park character maker that has been running since 1999 and still gets updated with props from new episodes.

The original film's promotional site, left online untouched for nearly thirty years and preserved when the sequel arrived.

Gag gift shop selling the same reliable nonsense since the dot-com boom, on a layout that has aged in real time.

The endless runner that ate mobile gaming, in a browser tab with the trains, the hoverboards and the shouting guard intact.

The community revival of surviv.io, the sharp little 2D battle royale that was shut down and flatly refused to stay dead.

The official browser Tetris, marathon mode included, so you can settle the argument about whether you are still any good.

Type a word, pick from several hundred FIGlet fonts, and get the enormous ASCII banner your terminal deserves.

Converts an uploaded photograph into ASCII, HTML or coloured text art, with the character density under your control.

Thousands of browser-playable parser and choice games, plus Quest, the authoring tool most of them were written in.

Everything people typed at each other on bulletin board systems before the web existed, preserved as plain text and left open.