⚙️ WebAssembly
A 95-byte module assembled by hand — real bytecode with a real loop, raced against JIT'd JavaScript. This is how C++ apps run in your tab.
WebAssembly.instantiate
🧵 Worker Threads
Count six million primes on every core you own while the UI never drops a frame — then do it on the main thread and feel the difference.
new Worker(blobURL)
📴 Works Offline
A service worker caches this exhibit on first visit. Kill your network, reload, it's still there — and it installs like an app.
serviceWorker manifest
🖥️ The Web Escapes the Browser
VS Code, Slack, Discord, Figma — web pages in desktop windows. The whole Electron recipe is three files; Web95 could ship to your dock tonight.
Electron Tauri
🧠 Built-in AI
Chrome ships Gemini Nano inside the browser: on-device translation, summarization, and a Prompt API. Feature-detected live, honestly labeled.
Translator Summarizer LanguageModel
🌍 World Wide
Eleven writing systems, a UI that mirrors itself with dir="rtl",
grapheme truths ("🇺🇸".length === 4), and the built-in locale library.
lang dir Intl
🛡️ The Unbreakable Page
One article, three layers. Turn off CSS, images, and JavaScript — live — and watch content survive. Includes the screen-reader's-eye view.
noscript alt sandbox
🛰️ WebRTC, No Server
Peer-to-peer encrypted chat where YOU are the signaling server, via copy-paste. The same handshake behind every video call.
RTCPeerConnection
🎇 WebGPU
A compute shader squares 16 million floats on your graphics card, raced against the CPU. The muscle under in-browser LLMs.
WGSL compute
🔐 Web Crypto
SHA-256 any file locally; generate a non-extractable keypair, sign, verify, tamper, watch verification fail.
crypto.subtle
📂 Real Files
A text editor that opens a file from your disk and saves it back in place — one OS dialog, one handle, no ambient access.
showOpenFilePicker
🗄️ Storage
See your origin's multi-gigabyte quota, keep notes in a real transactional database, and write to a private sandboxed filesystem.
IndexedDB OPFS
🏓 Window to Window
Open the page twice and serve a ball that bounces out of one window and into the other. Tabs are processes with a radio.
BroadcastChannel
🪟 Picture-in-Picture
Float a live vector clock in an always-on-top window that outranks every app on your screen.
documentPictureInPicture
💧 EyeDropper
Pick a color from anywhere on your screen — even outside the browser. One API call, one pixel, your choice.
EyeDropper
🗜️ Compression
gzip your text live and round-trip it back. Repetition crushes; randomness resists — information theory in a textarea.
CompressionStream
🔗 URL Weirdness
Images and whole pages that live inside their own address, URLs minted at
runtime, and a custom web+wars:// protocol that boots the arcade.
data: blob: registerProtocolHandler
🚧 HTML Oldskool
A genuine 1996 homepage: real <frameset>, <marquee>,
bgcolor, table layout, hit counter. Every tag still renders — the web never
breaks its past.
<frameset> <font>