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GeezerVison

The World Wide Web, restored to 800 pixels of glory.

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Welcome to GeezerVison — paste a public web address and see it the way a 56k modem would have dressed it: Times headlines, blue underlined links, square borders, and not a rounded card in sight. Best viewed at 800×600. JavaScript applications and private pages are politely declined.  ◆  

Gaming cabinet

  • CheatCC (2002)
  • GameFAQs (2002)
  • GameWinners
  • Konami Code
  • Full cabinet

Archives

  • Wayback Machine
  • National Archives
  • More archives

Quick links

  • Other starters
  • How it works
  • About GeezerVison

House rules

  • Public HTML only
  • No logins or checkout
  • Original CSS is stripped
  • Links stay inside GeezerVison

Tips

Old cheat sites, FAQs, and wikis look best. Fancy storefronts vanish once the scripts are gone.

See any public page the old-fashioned way

Type a website below. GeezerVison fetches the public HTML, throws away the modern styling, and pours the words, pictures, headings, and links into a fixed 800-pixel table layout — Times, Verdana, blue underlines, square borders.

http or https only. No logins, checkout, or private pages.

Gaming cabinet

Cheat codes, FAQs, and walkthroughs — the kind of pages that already belonged at 800×600. Live CheatCC blocks this viewer, so that entry is the January 2002 archive (N64, PlayStation, Dreamcast, and the rest).

SiteWhy try it
Cheat Code Central (2002)The classic CheatCC hub — N64, PlayStation, Dreamcast, GameCube, Xbox, and PC codes.
GameFAQs (2002)Walkthroughs, codes, and message boards from the golden age of FAQs.
GameWinnersA 1995–2017 cheat-code time capsule that still serves plain HTML.
Konami Code↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A — the most famous cheat of all.
Super Mario 64 wikiStars, secrets, and blue links for the N64 classic.
Cheats in video gamesWikipedia on God mode, debug menus, and Game Genie.

Maps, museums, sprite sheets, and wikis that still read as ordinary HTML.

SiteWhy try it
VGMapsThe Video Game Atlas — overworlds and dungeons, mapped.
Video Game MuseumScreenshots and relics from decades of cartridge history.
Museum of the GameArcade cabinets, pinball, and coin-op history.
Let's Play: Chrono TriggerA text-and-screenshot LP of the SNES RPG.
The Spriters ResourceSprite sheets from consoles you actually remember.
Zophar's DomainEmulation news and files, still dressed like 1998.
Hardcore Gaming 101Long essays on games the magazines skipped.
NES — WikipediaThe toaster, the duck hunt gun, and 8-bit history.
NetHackASCII dungeons and a homepage that never needed CSS.
Interactive Fiction DBText adventures — the original 800-pixel pastime.
Stardew Valley WikiCrops, villagers, and a wiki that redraws cleanly.
Kingdom Hearts WikiKeyblades, worlds, and a lot of headings.

Archives

The Wayback Machine stores old public pages. The U.S. National Archives (archives.gov) holds the country's records. Paste any snapshot URL in the box above — the CheatCC and GameFAQs entries already do that.

SiteWhy try it
Wayback MachineLook up old copies of public websites — paste any snapshot URL too.
National Archivesarchives.gov — America's records, exhibits, and founding documents.
Founding documentsDeclaration, Constitution, and Bill of Rights from the National Archives.
Internet Archive blogNews from the people who run the Wayback Machine. (archive.org itself is a web app.)
Wayback Machine — WikipediaWhat the archive is, and how the snapshots work.

Other starter sites

Plain public pages that redraw cleanly if you want a non-gaming test.

SiteWhy try it
example.comThe simplest page on the Web — a clean first test.
The first websiteCERN's original World Wide Web page, from the beginning.
Wikipedia: World Wide WebHeadings, pictures, and blue links — a classic article.
CNN LiteA text-first news page that still reads well at 800 pixels.
NPR TextPublic radio headlines, stripped down to words.
Project GutenbergFree books and a site that already feels a little vintage.

How it works

  1. You enter a public http or https address.
  2. The server retrieves the HTML. Private, login, and payment pages are refused.
  3. Scripts, stylesheets, and forms are stripped. Useful text, images, headings, and links stay.
  4. Links are rewritten so the next click keeps you inside GeezerVison.
  5. The leftover document is shown in this early-2000s chrome — 800 pixels, no card UI.
You are visitor 01402486 — GeezerVison does not store the pages you look up.
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