404 Afterlife Uses Local Open-Weight AI to Restore Forgotten Websites

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A three-person team built 404 Afterlife, an application that revives abandoned websites while keeping their original content and identity intact. Users can upload a ZIP archive or pull historical snapshots from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, with Arquivo.pt as a fallback. The tool analyzes page structure, navigation, assets, and broken links before applying a modern responsive design. Its AI-assisted mode uses Google's Gemma 3 1B model running locally through Ollama to plan a shared visual theme, while a CSS-only mode offers a non-AI alternative. The project was created for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge.

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