Reframe

Reframe is a desktop browser for macOS that makes you feel like it's 1999 again. Built on modern Chromium wrapped in Electron, it renders the actual 2025 web but looks exactly like Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer 5, Firefox 1.0, or Safari 1.0—pixel-perfect reproductions down to the spinning throbber in the corner. Four themes, one-click switching, and a built-in Wayback Mode so you can see how websites looked back then. It's open source, v1.1.0, macOS only, and ships inside a .zip because apparently even the download method had to be retro.

This is pure nostalgia engineering. You're not supposed to use it as your daily driver—it's for when you want to feel something, when you want to browse eBay like it's 2003 or load Yahoo like it's 1999. The real web works fine underneath because modern Chromium doesn't care what skin you put on it. VS Code, Slack, and Discord run on the same Electron foundation. The difference is those apps are trying to be the future. Reframe is trying to be the past, and honestly? That's kind of magical.