Winston Online
A personal web portal revisiting a website idea from the 1990s — four themes, a frames-era shell, and an honest line between what's real and what's decorative.
Key Features & Outcomes
- Four themes and a restored frames-era shell, rebuilt with keyboard focus and reduced-motion support rather than a straight nostalgia copy
- A real visit counter, shared across browsers via D1 — separate from the deliberately decorative one inside the 1997 vault
- Speech synthesis and a "prompt lab" experiment sit alongside the portal content
The idea
A personal portal revisiting a website concept from the 1990s — frame layouts, multiple themes, the feel of an earlier web, rebuilt with today's accessibility baseline rather than a straight nostalgia copy.
Why it matters
Its own README says the quiet part out loud: the sample news, model comparisons, and predictions are prototype content, not a verified live service, and one of the two visitor counters is decorative while the other is real and database-backed. That's an unusually honest content-status disclosure to write into a README — worth carrying the same honesty forward here rather than polishing it into sounding more finished than it is.