ZoomerAllMedia Plugin

“	Play games like it's 1997.	„
	~ The official slogan

ZoomerAllMedia Plugin (also known simply as Zoomer or ZAP, full name as OldWeb Navigator's Zoomer) is a universal browser-plugin emulator designed to reproduce the behavior of legacy NPAPI-based web plugins from the late 1990s through the mid-2010s. Created by Joan Davis and developed under Moonchild Productions (who created the Pale Moon browser), the plugin debuted on January 17, 2020, with the goal of preserving the “Old Web” experience in modern browsers.

History[]

ZoomerAllMedia Plugin was announced in 2014 as its working title OldWebPlayer after many messages and rumors that web browsers will take down all of NPAPI plugins.

The emulator was finished in November 2019 and was ready to launch on January 17, 2020, three days after the launch of OldWeb Navigator.

The emulator and OldWeb Navigator have an all-in-one package named ZoomerAllMedia Plugin x OldWeb Navigator nostalgia package, which includes all nostalgia apps in one, it was first announced on November 19, 2020 as a contest on their website to see which of the users tell why they love nostalgia and old web so much as they write in either Facebook or Instagram, the winners were announced on November 23, 2020 which are Katie McClure from UK (18), David Leigh from USA (14), Antti Pakous from Finland (23), Ashley Davies from Canada (26), and Yoav Tzur from Israel (19), and most notably Cory Stewarsen from UK (13) and is now available for free to download, the following apps in the package are:

ZoomerAllMedia Plugin (Universal NPAPI emulator)
OldWeb Navigator (The one and only retro browser)
AppReviveOS (Mobile phone/tablet operating system emulator, can emulate modern, regional, Java, and discounted apps (iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, etc.) inside the emulator)
WebRewind Time Machine Browser (A web browser-like with web archiving engines)
RetroVerse Access (added to the package since November 2023) (watch DVDs, VHS tapes, CEDs, VCDs, listen to CDs, play CD-ROMs and console games, and read anything without needed buying)
NostalgiaHub Offline (A offline version of the website of the same name, mainly used without signing up)
Flashpoint Archive (Can load games and animations from any NPAPI plugins)
Wrapper: Offline (added to the package since October 2022) (an offline version that includes classic GoAnimate themes)
NostalgiAI (added to the package since July 2024) (Nostalgic AI system)
BrowserBox 98 (A built-in emulated Windows 98 browser environment inside a tab)
Netscape Reborn (a Netscape 3-9 emulator with themes, sounds, and classic security warnings)
IE6 Sandbox (Can run Internet Explorer 6 sites in a safe, isolated Retro container)
WebTV Simulator (Can load WebTV-era pages and renders them in the classic UI)
AOL Desktop Revival (Instant access to these following (AOL chatrooms, Old AOL art, AOL browser, and keyword navigation)
RealPlayer Legacy Pack (Can play .rm, .ra, and old streaming webcasts)
QuickTime Classic Pack (Supports mov, qtvr, and early Quick Time web embeds)
Winamp Web Skin Loader (Can load old Winamp 2/3 skins for audio playback)
MIDI & Tracker Player (Full support of the following files (.mid, .xm, .it, and .mod) for old web music)
Java Arcade Pack (Can reload old Java applet games)
Shockwave Worlds (Can load old Shockwave/Director 3D worlds)
Flash MMO Hub (Can reload classic Flash MMO clients)
VRML Galaxy (A library of vintage VRML worlds ready to explore)
Wayback Enhancer (Can improve broken pages by Auto-fixing scripts, Auto-restoring broken media, and Backfilling missing CSS)
OldWeb Engine v2 (Can allow rendering sites as styles from late 90s-late 2000s)
GeoCities Site Builder Revival (A software that lets users create 90s-style pages with glitter GIFs and hit counters)
Flashpoint Archive Sync (Auto-import Flash games from Flashpoint)
The "Old Internet" ISO Library (Can load CDs of old web software like Netscape CD-ROMs, MSN Explorer, Encarta (including Encarta Kids and Encarta Student), CompServe discs, and more)
90s Fonts & UI Restoration Pack (Tahoma, Chicago font, Webdings, Glow buttons, Pixel scrollbars, etc.)
MSN Messenger Revival (Stand-alone messenger client with custom winks and nudge support)
Yahoo! Messenger Replica (Fully skinned to look identical to mid-2000s version of it)
IRC Gateway (Can access Classic IRC networks with retro UI)
AIM "Running Man" Hub (Can revive AOL Instant Messager)
90s Web Theme Pack (Has toggles like spinning 3D GIFs, vaporwave themes, pixel borders, etc.)
Navbar Skin Vault (Skin switcher, can skin from Maxthon, Netscape, Opera 7, IE, etc.)
OldWeb Screensaver Suite (Classic screensavers such as 3D texts, pipes, mazes, aurora, starfield, etc.)
Desktop Toys Revival (Safe mode of BonziBuddy, eBuddy, Sheep.exe, Talking Moose, etc.)
WebOS Museum (OS skins switcher such as 95, 98, XP, Longhorn, Vista, 7, MacOS 9, etc.)
Windows 7 Games (added to the package since April 2021) (classic Windows 7 games and apps)
NuMuKi Browser (NuMuKi and Disney Games) (Retro web gaming)
Ruffle (Flash Player emulator)

Overview[]

ZoomerAllMedia Plugin is imagined as a compatibility layer that loads and interprets obsolete plugin formats inside a sandboxed emulation environment. Instead of requiring native NPAPI support (which most modern browsers removed), Zoomer simulates the older interface and translates calls to a modern backend.

The technology behind Zoomer allows it to mimic the look, feel, and quirks of browsers from the Windows 98–Windows 7 era, including UI styles, plugin framing behaviors, and rendering timing.

Features[]

Universal NPAPI Emulation - Can enable all NPAPI plugins including full support (Flash, Java, Silverlight, Shockwave, Unity, 3DVIA, iPIX, QuickTime, VLC, WMP, RealPlayer, DjVu, DivX, FLV, Acrobat Reader, OpenH264, Winamp, ASAP WebShow, Cult3D, 3D Groove, Panda3D, etc.) on modern browsers (Chrome, Edge, Safari, IE, Opera, Waterfox, Firefox, newer versions of SeaMonkey, and more), so it can act like a late 90s-2010s web browser or Pale Moon/Basilisk/360 Browser/Uzbl/Waterfox Classic/OldWeb/older versions of SeaMonkey. There are different categories for each emulator that user can one or all of them: ZoomerActive (for games and interactive media plugins, like Flash, Shockwave, Unity Web, Silverlight, Java, 3DVIA, 3D Groove, PopCap, and more), ZoomerPlayer (for video and audio plugins, like Windows Media Player, VLC, RealPlayer, Ogg Theora / Vorbis, QuickTime, F4V, FLV, DivX, OpenH264, Winamp, and more), ZoomerDocu (for documents, educational, and technical plugins, like Acrobat Reader, DJVU, LiveMath, ASAP, Microsoft Office, HotMedia, iPIX, and more), and ZoomerUtility (for utility, system, and compatibility plugins, like ActiveX, NPAPI to PPAPI, Google Earth, Widevine Content Decryption Module, and more).
Browser Emulation Modes - The plugin includes several “browser personality modes,” allowing pages to behave as though loaded through older engines like Retro Mode (1997–2002, mimics early IE and Netscape plugin timing), Mid-2000s Mode (2003–2008, optimizes for Flash-heavy content), Late-2000s/2010s Mode (tuned for Silverlight and Unity Web Player), and Passthrough Mode (attempts modernized rendering without UI quirks).
Plugin Time Machine - Users can select a specific plugin version to emulate. For example, Flash 6 (for old homestar runner games), Flash 8 (for 2005–2007 animation sites), Java 1.4 (for early MMO clients), or Shockwave 10 vs 12 differences.
Security Sandbox - ZoomerAllMedia describes a “multi-layer sandbox” that isolates plugin code to prevent the kinds of vulnerabilities that plagued NPAPI historically.

Websites using this emulator without downloading[]

Wayback Machine (museum) (All NPAPI plugins, Flash is also altered with Ruffle)
NostalgiaHub (nostalgia database) (All NPAPI plugins, Flash is also altered with Ruffle and Java is also altered with X_ITE)
Shidonni (children's website) (Silverlight)
Newgrounds (website) (Flash, alternated with Ruffle)
Coolmath Games (games website) (Flash, alternated with Ruffle)
FlashThemes (animation website) (Flash)
Homestar Runner (web-series) (Flash, alternated with Ruffle)
Neopets (game) (Flash, alternated with Ruffle)
Sunrise Games (virtual worlds) (Flash, alternated with Ruffle)
Nostalgic' Kids Sites (web time machine for kids) (Flash, 3D Groove, 3DVIA Player, Shockwave, and Java)
Silverlight Buzz (database) (Silverlight)
Cubeez website (TV series) (despite the show was already ended in 2001, the website is still up as of today) (Flash)
Cookie Jar TV (TV block) (despite the block was already shutted down in 2013, the website is still up as of today) (Flash)
game.hop.co.il / minisite.hop.co.il (websites) (defunct websites of the Hop! Israeli preschool television channel) (Flash)
OldWebOS (operating system) (ZoomerAllMedia Plugin itself)
My First Homepage / Bigo (children's website) (former remastered website of their 2009-2021 version) (Flash)
SilveOS (formerly) (operating system) (Silverlight)
kids.gov.il (children's website) (Flash)
Flashpoint Database (database) (All NPAPI plugins, Flash is also altered with Ruffle and Java is also altered with X_ITE)

Logos[]

Trivia[]

One example of a game/animation uses is technically used for one game/animation, OldWebOS while the rest are working with the emulator, it is also used for its own website.
The filename of the emulator is ".zap".
The name "Zoomer" is a combination of the generations: Boomer and Gen Z.