Homepages & shrines
Sandra's Space Corner START HERE
A teen astronomer's personal homepage, the whole 1999 liturgy: a counter, a guestbook, a webring, a cat on the masthead, snow in December.
Proves: the archetype. Midnight.
Mel's Corner
A teenager's diary: dated entries with mood stars and smilies, a spoiler, and a scalloped-panel blog on a hearts tile.
Proves: personal publishing. Kawaii.
Neon Divide
An unofficial fan shrine for a made-up basement synth band, built around the jukebox, a discography, tour dates, and a street team.
Proves: the jukebox chrome, moodily. Midnight.
The Nebula Shrine
A superfan's shrine to a fictional space sim: a splash gate, a frameset on a starfield, a jukebox, and a konami-code secret page.
Proves: how loud the Laws allow. Y2K.
The Story Nook
A fanfiction archive for an invented fandom: a story index with ratings, a reading room with chapter navigation, and a review form.
Proves: long-form reading. Kawaii.
Dana's Desk Cam
A JenniCam-era "my life on cam" page, a "live" ASCII cam, a diary, an archive, and the earnest FAQ.
Proves: the personal-cam genre. Midnight.
Blobby Adoptions
Adopt a pixel pet, the pixel-pet widget puts a little blob in your corner that you feed and that remembers you between visits.
Proves: the pixel-pet widget. Kawaii.
Grandma Vi's Kitchen
A homey recipe site: a featured recipe with ingredients and numbered steps, a recipe-box index, and a share-your-recipe form.
Proves: honest content structure. Classic.
The public web, shops, clans, papers
Pizzeria Bella Napoli 2000
A family pizzeria on the web since the nephew learned HTML. Menu, hours, directions, a reservation form.
Proves: a normal, useful site. Classic.
MegaByte Computers
A year-2000 online store: a product grid, a shopping cart that adds up, and a full checkout form, every field labelled, nothing ever sent.
Proves: commerce forms and tables. Bevel.
Clan Vortex
An arena-shooter clan page: a roster with K/D and ranks, match results, server info, and a recruiting tryout, the green-terminal gamer look.
Proves: data tables under a theme. Phosphor.
Basement FM
Net radio from the basement: the jukebox as the station deck, a DJ lineup, a request line, and the recently-played list.
Proves: the jukebox in a station. Y2K.
The Dial-Up Gazette
A small-town paper's first website: front-page columns, classifieds, a weather box, letters to the editor, sober editorial, no teal in sight.
Proves: the newspaper theme. Newspaper.
The Pixel Dispatch
A monthly webzine about the web itself: a cover story, four department desks, starred reviews, an editor's letter, and a back-issue archive.
Proves: editorial long-form. Midnight.
The Chrome Comet Award
A "win my award" program: a chrome medallion, judging criteria, an application form, and a hall of fame of past winners.
Proves: the award-site genre. Y2K.
Nimbus Systems
Stiff year-2000 corporate brochureware, mission statement, products, leadership, press releases. Proof it does boring too.
Proves: restrained enterprise. Bevel.
PixelForge Web Design
A freelance webmaster's "I make websites!" pitch: a portfolio of fake clients, a rates table, and a get-a-quote form.
Proves: the services-page genre. Classic.
Pixel & Byte
A slice-of-life webcomic: a three-panel strip with first/prev/next/last navigation, a dated archive, and the cartoonist's rant underneath.
Proves: the webcomic layout. Classic.
Starport
A late-90s web directory: a search box, eight hand-sorted category columns, cool-site-of-the-day, a weather box, and a webring.
Proves: density stays organised. Classic.
Pardon the mess
A perpetually-unfinished homepage: a friendly 404, caution-striped construction signs, and a countdown to a grand opening that never comes.
Proves: the error + construction kit. Classic.
Real programs & communities
To-Do List 98
Shareware task manager in a Windows-98 window: full CRUD, offline, keyboard-driven, saves to your computer.
Proves: a real modern app. Bevel.
Server Room Status
A dial-up ISP's NOC wall: a live fleet table, modem pools, an ASCII bandwidth chart, and a Y2K countdown, updating in discrete steps.
Proves: a data-heavy live app. Phosphor.
The Webmaster's Desktop
A whole operating system, on a web page: draggable, stackable windows you can shuffle, a start menu, a taskbar, and a DVD logo bouncing as the screensaver.
Proves: the windows + dvd widgets. Cosmic.
Retrospace
A curated, bilingual directory and search for the retrostrap world, browse by category and language; a human approves every listing.
Proves: the community keystone (DE/EN). Classic.
The Webmaster's Workshop
A 1999 "learn to make a homepage" tutorial, the framework dogfooding its own tabs and code blocks to teach the era's craft.
Proves: rs-tabs + rs-dos, teaching. Bevel.
The Night Sky Ring
A webring: six small pages about the sky, each linking to the next. The bar works out its own neighbours from a little list, no server, no sign-up.
Proves: the webring widget. Cosmic.
The Software Vault
A shareware archive with star ratings and platform badges. Click download and a progress bar fills the honest, chunky way a 33.6 modem delivered a file.
Proves: rs-progress + the transitions wipe. Bevel.
The toolshed
Text-Only Mirror
The era's "text-only / Lynx-friendly / Bobby Approved" version, the accessibility mirror, told in-period. High contrast, big targets, no ornament.
Proves: the a11y story + high-contrast theme. High contrast.
The builder
Drag components onto a canvas, pick a theme and wallpaper, turn on the toybox, and export clean HTML. GeoCities PageBuilder, but it passes the audit.
Proves: the catalog as a live tool. System.
Button Works
An 88×31 button generator styled like a paint program. Pick from the lawful colors, type your text, download a PNG, all in your browser.
Proves: the Palette Law as a UI. Bevel.
Sign Painter
Type a word, get a banner in big ASCII letters, two faces, an optional drop shadow, your choice of ink. Copy it or save a .txt.
Proves: the rs-ascii component, live. Bevel.
Userbar Factory
The glossy 350×19 signature banner of the mid-2000s forums, colour themes, pixel icons, gel or oval gloss, scanlines or brushed metal. Download and wear it.
Proves: forum-signature culture. Bubble.
Backgrounds & baubles
Every tiled background in one gallery, and the kugeln, shiny spheres that trail your pointer in a rainbow. Move your mouse.
Proves: decoration that stays lawful. Classic.
Which theme are you?
A 1999-style personality quiz. Six questions, and the page wears the answer.
Proves: attribute-scoped theming, live. Y2K.
The docs site
The documentation itself is a showpiece, every component and widget page, the theme switcher, and the Museum, all dogfooding the framework.
Proves: we use our own tools. We lost count.