98.js
98.js.org
Windows 98 rebuilt in JavaScript, down to the fonts
Sorted by vibe
Emulators, archives and pages that never got redesigned. Some are genuinely old, some are careful recreations, and a few have simply been running untouched for twenty years. All 76 were opened and written up by hand, and last checked on 29 July 2026.
26 sites
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98.js.org
Windows 98 rebuilt in JavaScript, down to the fonts
bryanbraun.com
The flying toasters screensaver, rebuilt in pure CSS
apod.nasa.gov
One space image a day, explained by a working astronomer
cachemonet.com
Every GIF at once, with a soundtrack, on purpose
dolekemp96.org
A 1996 US campaign website, preserved exactly as it was
flashbynight.com
Flood the whole board with one colour in thirty moves
fakeupdate.net
Full-screen system update screens that never finish
gifcities.org
Search every animated GIF GeoCities ever hosted
mrdoob.com
The Google homepage collapses into a heap on load
hackertyper.net
Mash the keyboard, produce convincing green code
imissmycafe.com
Rebuild your old coffee shop from its component noises
iwastesomuchtime.com
A meme feed built for exactly one idle scroll
kidpix.app
Kid Pix 1.0 rebuilt, dynamite eraser and all
jspaint.app
MS Paint, faithfully rebuilt and quietly improved
lingscars.com
A real car leasing firm behind the loudest site online
classic.minecraft.net
The 2009 version of Minecraft, free in a browser tab
minesweeper.online
Minesweeper with leaderboards and no Windows required
music-map.com
Type one band, get a constellation of adjacent ones
poolsuite.net
A sun-bleached 90s Mac desktop that plays summer radio
dan-ball.jp
The falling-sand classic, still updated after fifteen years
radiooooo.com
Pick a country and a decade, hear what was playing
somafm.com
Thirty listener-funded stations, no adverts anywhere
spacejam.com
The original 1996 film site, never taken down
hampsterdance.com
The 1998 meme that outlived the entire early web
wiby.me
A search engine that only indexes small, simple pages
winxp.vercel.app
Bliss wallpaper, Luna taskbar, working Minesweeper
14 sites
One quick round, then you can leave.
cameronsworld.net
A collage built entirely from salvaged GeoCities parts
fodey.com
Type a headline, get a passable newspaper clipping
gnoosic.com
Name three bands you like and it guesses the fourth
hypem.com
What the music blogs posted today, ranked by how many
infinitemac.org
Every classic Mac OS, booting in seconds, discs included
jsspeccy.zxdemo.org
A ZX Spectrum in your browser, loading noise included
savethesounds.info
Click the old hardware to hear it one more time
oldweb.today
Load archived pages in a real, emulated Netscape
playback.fm
The number one song on the day you were born
thefarside.com
Gary Larson's cows and scientists, officially online
milliondollarhomepage.com
A million pixels sold in 2005, still hanging there
theoldnet.com
Surf archived pages inside a fake 1990s browser window
copy.sh
Boot Windows 95, Linux or FreeDOS inside a browser tab
web.archive.org
Type any URL, pick a year, and the old web loads
21 sites
Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
allmusic.com
Browse by genre, mood, decade or who played on it
beepbox.co
A chiptune sequencer that fits a whole song in a URL
behindthename.com
The etymology and history of first names, worldwide
c82.net
An 1847 geometry book where colour replaces the labels
archive.org
Atari, Colecovision and Intellivision, inside the page
qwantz.com
Same six panels every time, different conversation
emupedia.net
A Windows 98 desktop stocked with era-correct games
archive.org
Thousands of DOS games, playable inside the page
neal.fun
Scroll the internet's objects, from 1977 to 2007
last.fm
Twenty years of listening data, turned into neighbours
lego.com
The LEGO site built for the people who play with LEGO
linerider.com
Draw a hill and a small sledder rides whatever you drew
blog.geocities.institute
A bot posts one dead GeoCities page every twenty minutes
pcjs.org
Original IBM PCs, emulated down to the clock cycle
chiark.greenend.org.uk
Forty small logic puzzles, endlessly generated, no fuss
folkways.si.edu
The US national collection of folk and world recordings
spacehey.com
MySpace rebuilt from scratch, top eight friends included
versionmuseum.com
Step through a famous site as it redesigns itself
webdesignmuseum.org
Screenshots of the web's biggest sites, year by year
windows93.net
An OS that never existed, full of cursed little apps
windows96.net
A fictional 90s OS with far too much software in it
15 sites
Clear your evening. We warned you.
discmaster.textfiles.com
Full-text search across thousands of old shareware discs
discogs.com
A catalogue of very nearly every record ever pressed
everything2.com
A pre-Wikipedia wiki where the writing is the point
geocities.restorativland.org
Wander the old GeoCities neighbourhoods, street by street
archive.org
Millions of scanned books, magazines and old manuals
knowyourmeme.com
The footnoted origin story of every image you have seen
memory-alpha.fandom.com
Star Trek documented as though it were actual history
graememcc.co.uk
The original open-source SimCity, rewritten for browsers
neocities.org
Free hosting for hand-made pages, GeoCities style
etymonline.com
Where words came from, traced as far back as evidence goes
telehack.com
A simulated 1980s network you explore by typing
lostmediawiki.com
A register of films, tapes and games nobody can find
whosampled.com
Every sample, cover and remix, traced to its source
skins.webamp.org
Tens of thousands of Winamp skins, all of them playable
starwars.fandom.com
A couple of hundred thousand articles about one film series
Different mood