RetroWebMatic is a fairly silly personal site that mimics vintage photo effect apps such as Instagram and Hipstamatic on websites through the magic JavaScript, jQuery and CSS3.
The site achieved some viral success receiving over 16,000 page views in it’s first week. It has been featured on the B3TA Newsletter, spent some time on the funny page of Reddit and has since been picked up by a number of other sites around the world including:
- French tech news site Le Journal du Geek
- French tech blog FZN
- Spanish tech blog Geek’s Room
- Swiss news site 20 Minutes Online
- MetaFilter Comunity Weblog
- Dutch site surfplaza.be just discovered section
- The Presurfer blog
- French blog Cocktail Web
- Hungarian news site Techline
- RubbishCorp website
- Interestingly named Croatian blog Lion’s Fart
The site has been designed so that people can share links that go straight to specific “Retrofied” websites by copying a specially formed URL, or posting it directly onto Twitter.
You can see what this site looks like “Retrofied” here:
www.retrowebmatic.com/?effect=1&url=josephmaynard.co.uk