Warp any website back to 1998
Keep scrolling to go back in time
A free time machine for the World Wide Web.
Give it the address of any modern website. TimeToWarp reads the live page, works out what it is really about, and rebuilds it as the homepage it would have been in 1998.
Animated GIFs. Marquee tags. A visitor counter. Hand-coded HTML, not React and not Tailwind. It's for anyone who still misses the old personal web.
- 117+ sites warped so far
- 1,700+ vintage GIFs
- 11 GeoCities-style districts
- About 30 seconds a warp
Every AI-generated site looks the same.
Gradient hero. Three-column features. Testimonials carousel. Purple buttons. It's like the entire web took a single design class taught by a robot.
The web used to have personality. Every GeoCities page was different because a real person made it, in Notepad, at 2 AM, with too much enthusiasm and not enough taste.
TimeToWarp is a love letter to that era, and a quiet protest against the future we're building.
Same site. Different century.
Drag across the window to travel between them.
Warped pages are an artistic reinterpretation, not copies and not the companies' own sites.
Open the 1998 AppleThree steps, about thirty seconds.
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Paste any address
Type a URL into the Navigator, the way we typed everything by hand. No account and no email field.
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The AI finds the essence
One stage reads the live site and distills what it is actually about. Another re-encodes that meaning in the vocabulary of 1998.
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1998 happens
The page opens in the Navigator with animated GIFs, marquee tags, genuine vintage assets and maybe a guestbook.
What you can do with it
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Warp one pagePaste an address and get a 1998 homepage back in about 30 seconds.
5 a day
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Warp a whole siteThe AI explores internal pages and builds six that link to each other.
1 a day
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Browse the gallery117+ sites already warped, from Apple to Space Jam, sorted by district.
No limit
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Surf the NavigatorA whole 1998 browser inside your browser, with its own address bar, tabs and history.
No limit
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Keep the HTMLWhat the AI writes is yours, even for commercial use. For that, swap the vintage GIFs for your own.
Yours
All of it is free. Like Hotmail. Like the dream of the open web.
Everything you remember
This isn't a retro CSS theme. The pieces come from a curated archive of 1,700+ vintage GIFs from the real GeoCities, and they land on the page in the same glorious disorder.
Animated GIFs, wherever they fit and several places they don't
Under construction
Since 1998. Check back soon!
You are visitor number
0000047A counter that always said 47.
Dolphins. Obviously, dolphins.
11 districts 
Every warped site moves into the GeoCities neighborhood that suits it.
The Warped Web Ring
My guestbook
kewl page!! i added u to my links. pls visit my page 2
Badges from a time when your browser was a personality trait.
117+ sites warped so far
Pick one and it opens in the Navigator.
Questions, asked frequently
Is this actually free?
Yes, totally free. Like Hotmail. You can warp up to 5 single-page sites and 1 six-page site per day at no cost, with no signup and no email harvesting. Browsing the gallery has no daily cap.
Why 1998 specifically?
Because that was peak personal web. Before banner ads ate the soul of the internet and before SEO killed the experimental homepage: Netscape Navigator 4, GeoCities neighborhoods, WebRings, MIDI files, hit counters, and pages built by real people in Notepad.
What's GeoCities?
A free web-hosting service launched in 1994 that gave anyone a homepage in a themed neighborhood like SiliconValley, Hollywood or Tokyo. At its peak it hosted over 38 million pages, almost all hand-coded by amateurs. Yahoo! bought it in 1999 and shut it down in 2009.
How is this different from other AI site builders?
Those tools build modern web apps in React and Tailwind. TimeToWarp builds 1998 web pages in hand-coded HTML with vintage assets. They're trying to make the future. This is trying to remember the past.
Can I use the generated HTML commercially?
The HTML and copy the AI generates are yours, including for commercial use. The vintage GIFs are a different story: most still belong to their original 1990s creators, so swap in your own assets for commercial projects.
Am I violating the original site's terms by warping it?
Probably not. TimeToWarp reads the publicly visible page once, the way a search engine crawler does, and produces an artistic reinterpretation rather than a copy. It is parody and commentary, so don't pass a warped page off as the real product.
