GPT is surprisingly bad at period-accurate retro web design.
If you ask it to generate “90s websites” long enough, you start noticing the same modern habits sneaking back in.
Rounded card UIs. Soft gradients. Hero sections. Minimal whitespace. SaaS dashboards.
After a while you can recognize a “modern AI website” immediately.
This file exists to stop that.
Netscapeify.md is a rule set that forces GPT to stop relying on its usual modern UI defaults.
Instead of letting it improvise design decisions, the file blocks the patterns it almost always falls back to and pushes it toward period-accurate 1994–1999 web conventions.
It doesn't try to teach GPT how to design.
It mostly just tells it what not to do — and what the 90s equivalent should look like instead.
Netscapeify is inspired by Uncodixify (by cyxzdev).
Netscapeify is also available as an agent skill via SKILL.md. This works with AI coding agents that support the skill format.
npx skills add sean12697/Netscapeify
Or bunx if you want.
Once installed, invoke it with:
text /netscapeify