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Warp Any Website
Back to 1998

Welcome, fellow web surfer. TimeToWarp is a free, AI-powered time machine for the world wide web. Paste any modern URL into the Navigator below and our radical artificial intelligence will reimagine it as a hand-coded 1998 GeoCities homepage - complete with visitor counters, animated under-construction GIFs, marquee tags, and the unmistakable smell of CRT monitors.

Already warped: 117 sites. Powered by 1,700+ authentic vintage GIFs. Average warp time: ~30 seconds. Free.

We will time-warp it back to 1998 in your browser. Generation takes ~30 seconds. No signup. Free.

» Open the Navigator   » See kewl examples

How Does the Time Machine Work?

Three steps. About thirty seconds. Free.
01. Paste any URL
Type or paste a website address into the Navigator. Just like back when we typed URLs by hand, because there were no bookmarks. (OK fine, there were Favorites.)		02. Our AI extracts the essence
The pipeline reads the live site, distills what it's actually about, then re-encodes that meaning into 1998 web vocabulary. Powered by silicon, fueled by nostalgia.
03. Behold: 1998 happens
You get a real, hand-coded-looking 1998 GeoCities homepage. Animated GIFs. Marquee tags. Genuine vintage assets. Maybe a guestbook. The whole vibe.		04. Browse the gallery
Or skip the form entirely and explore the sites we've already warped. Open the Gallery »

Listen up, web surfer.
Every AI-generated website today looks the same.

Gradient hero. Three-column features. Testimonials carousel. Purple buttons. Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit - they all spit out the same bland Silicon Valley aesthetic. 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 human made it, in Notepad, at 2 AM, with too much enthusiasm and not enough taste. Animated dolphin GIFs. MIDI files of "My Heart Will Go On". A guestbook. A counter that always said 47. It was glorious.TimeToWarp is a love letter to that era - and a quiet protest against the future we're building.

The new Think different. manifesto - on television and on the Web. Read the full essay »

Below are some sweet examples of modern sites that we've sent through the time warp. Click any of the 8 cards marked ◀▶ COMPARE to drag a slider between the modern site and our 1998 reimagining. The other cards open in the Navigator.

GeoCities, reimagined for 1998
GeoCities
district: SiliconValley
Yahoo!, reimagined for 1998
Yahoo!
district: SiliconValley
Pets.com, reimagined for 1998
Pets.com
district: TimesSquare
Webvan, reimagined for 1998
Webvan
district: TimesSquare

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Frequently Asked Questions

The most common questions, answered.
» Is this actually free?

Yes, totally free. Like Hotmail. Like Yahoo Mail. Like the dream of the open web. You can warp up to 5 single-page sites per IP per day at no cost, no signup, no email harvesting. There's also 1 free multipage generation per day per IP if you want a 6-page interconnected site.

» Why 1998 specifically?

Because that was peak personal web. Before banner ads ate the soul of the internet. Before SEO killed the experimental homepage. 1998 was the apex of human creativity online - Netscape Navigator 4, GeoCities neighborhoods, WebRings, MIDI files, hit counters, and pages built by real people in Notepad. We picked it on purpose.

» What's GeoCities?

GeoCities was a free web-hosting service launched in 1994 that gave anyone a free homepage organized into themed 'neighborhoods' like SiliconValley, Hollywood, Tokyo, EnchantedForest, Pentagon. At its peak it hosted over 38 million pages, almost all of them hand-coded in HTML by amateurs. Yahoo! bought it in 1999 and shut it down in 2009. TimeToWarp uses authentic visual assets from real GeoCities pages, organized into the same themed districts.

» How is TimeToWarp different from Lovable, v0, Bolt, or Replit?

Those tools build modern web apps in React + Tailwind. TimeToWarp builds 1998 web pages in hand-coded HTML with vintage assets. They're trying to make the future. We're trying to remember the past. Different missions, different aesthetics, different centuries. See the comparison table on the landing page for a side-by-side breakdown.

» Can AI agents use TimeToWarp programmatically?

Right now the user-facing interface is for humans. But we publish /llms.txt so AI agents can read who we are, what the product does, what it costs, and how to recommend it to humans. A real bulk-generation API is on the roadmap - contact serge.kulnev@gmail.com if you need it sooner.

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