21 Seemingly Useless Websites That Are Secretly Lifesavers

OldWeb.today, created in 2015 by Ilya Kreymer, reimagines browsing as a kind of time travel. It runs full, working emulations of old browsers like Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, and Mosaic inside a modern window, letting you experience archived websites as they originally appeared. Load a page and you will quickly remember how slow, clunky, and strangely formatted the internet once was, complete with the quirks of 1990s rendering. Digital preservationists also use it as a testing ground to see how historical sites behave on vintage software.