Wayback Museum

Wayback Museum is a handcrafted "Dead Websites Museum" built with Next.js 14 (App Router), Tailwind CSS, and Supabase.

Highlights

• Deep 1999-inspired visual style: CRT scanlines, taskbar, flicker, marquee, beveled controls
• Boot intro screen with skip action
• Archive browser with search, filters, and sorting
• Full exhibit detail pages with history, stats, links, and community memories
• Community memory submissions saved to Supabase
• Submit-an-entry form stored in Supabase pending_submissions
• Custom retro 404 page and floppy-disk favicon

Tech

• Next.js 14 App Router
• Tailwind CSS + custom CSS effects
• Supabase PostgreSQL

Setup

1. Install dependencies

npm install

2. Configure env

cp .env.example .env

Set:

NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_URL=...
NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY=...
SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY=...

3. Create schema and seed data in Supabase SQL editor

Run db/schema.sql first, then db/seed.sql.

4. Start dev server

npm run dev

5. Open

http://localhost:3000

Production

npm run build
npm run start

Data Model

Tables:

• exhibits
• community_memories
• pending_submissions

Schema is in db/schema.sql.