The Ash Heap
The ash flats where the fair was built, a few years before it opened. It's cold, wet and moonlit, and you look around in the dark with a box of matches.
My own project · New York, 1939
The Future in the Past
On futureinthepast.com, you ride a zeppelin through a dieselpunk New York: the future as people pictured it in 1939. It's a 3D website with six rooms to step into along the way, and I built it on weekends.
A thirty-second ride through the site. On futureinthepast.com itself, it comes with music.
THE STORY
The 1939 World's Fair
In 1939, a world's fair opened in New York with one big theme: the world of tomorrow. Visitors looked down on a model city from inside a giant white sphere, rode past the highways of 1960 and went home with a pin saying they had seen the future.
In The Future in the Past, it's evening in the New York of that fair. You glide in a zeppelin between lit-up towers and billboards in the style of the day, and moor at a mast above the city. Along the way, there are doors to rooms you can step into.
The site is about how people in 1939 thought about the future, and I built it with AI. I'm curious how people will look back on it eighty years from now.
DIESELPUNK
Dieselpunk: the future as imagined between the wars
Dieselpunk is the style of the future that people dreamed up between the two world wars: zeppelins, art deco, streamlining, diesel engines and towers reaching into the clouds. The beauty of that future is that it never arrived. In 1931, the Empire State Building got a mooring mast for airships, and not a single passenger ever got off there.
That's really what the site is about: the picture of the future itself keeps changing. In 1939, the future was a place you could travel to, with highways, model cities and airships. Today, everyone thinks of AI when they think of the future.
THE ROOMS
Six rooms along the route
Each room is a scene of its own, with its own light and sound, and there's something to do in every room. Three of them have a door to another project of mine.
Democracity
You stand on a balcony inside the big white sphere of the fair, high above a model city of the future. Pull the lever and evening falls.
The Driver of Tomorrow
A long hall in blue and yellow with twelve test seats and not a single car. At the back is the door to Rijloket, my platform for comparing driving schools.
The Coffee Bar
In the Brazilian pavilion, visitors to the fair were handed a cup of coffee. In this version, the bean mascot of Koffienoob pours one for you.
The Bath of Today
A washroom by candlelight, with a tub and a stove. Turn on the hot water and the room turns into a bathroom of today, with the door to Badkamereend.
The Vizibly Office
A side room off the ride: a desk with a phone, a nameplate and a laptop, the Vizibly logo in neon on the wall, and me standing next to it.
BEHIND THE SCENES
A 3D world that simply runs in your browser
It started as an experiment to see how far I could get with my own Vizibly System and the way I design websites. Pretty far, it turned out. I just dove in, and one thing led to another. The first versions looked pretty strange, but every round made it better, and now it's a complete ride with six rooms. I think it turned out awesome.
The site is built in Next.js with Three.js, the library for drawing 3D in the browser. You don't need an app or a plugin for it. I've been building it on weekends since late July 2026, with AI as a tool and a check after every round: how fast does a room load, does anything stutter, does the picture hold up on a phone.
Scrolling is flying
The whole ride is one 3D scene. The further you scroll, the further the zeppelin flies, and the music moves along with you.
Every room has its own address
Each room has a page of its own. That way, you can send someone a link to that exact room.
On your phone too
A phone runs the same world, with slightly lighter graphics settings so it stays smooth.
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