Retro Web — The Information Superhighway

About

Ever miss the old web? Retro Web rebuilds any modern web page as a glorious 1990s/early-2000s website — table layouts, Comic Sans, <marquee> tags, animated GIFs, hit counters, guestbooks, and webrings — complete with a dial-up modem loading screen while the page "downloads at 28.8 kbps."

Click the extension on any page and watch it get retro-fied in real time. Click a link inside a retro page and the next page gets retro-fied too — so you can surf the whole web like it's 1998.

★ HOW IT WORKS
Retro Web reads the readable text of the page you're on and asks Claude (Anthropic's AI) to rebuild it as a period-correct retro website. The result streams in live, rendered inside a sandboxed frame.

★ BRING YOUR OWN KEY — NO MIDDLEMAN
You use your own Anthropic API key. The page content and your key go directly from your browser to the Anthropic API and nowhere else: no telemetry, no analytics, no third-party server. Generated pages are cached locally so revisits are instant and free.

★ WHAT IT COSTS
A few cents to about $0.15 per page, depending on which Claude model you pick. You'll need an Anthropic API key from platform.claude.com.

★ PRIVATE & SAFE BY DESIGN
Generated HTML renders in a frame that cannot execute JavaScript, regardless of its content, with an extra sanitization pass as defense-in-depth. Your API key is stored only on your device.

Best viewed in Netscape Navigator. No tables were harmed in the making of this extension.