Retro Web — The Information Superhighway

by jonatan.kronander@gmail.com · Just for Fun

Manifest V3 Free

View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 15 Oct 2026

Uses Claude to rebuild any page as a glorious 90s/early-2000s website. Best viewed in Netscape Navigator.

Users

−5 in 30 days

Rating

0.0 / 5

unchanged in 30 days

Ratings

0 in 30 days

Store rank

#247K

#206K among extensions

Version

0.1.0

updated 18 Jun 2026

Users

monthly, 4 months

Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 5 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 4 months

Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 0 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

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About Retro Web — The Information Superhighway

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.