connectedpapers.com
Enter one paper and get a visual graph of the prior and derivative work most closely related to it.
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The directory
304 websites across 10 categories. Purple links are ones you've already explored.
Data & Research
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forebears.io
Look up how common your surname is and map where in the world it clusters.
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gapminder.org
Hans Rosling's interactive bubble charts of global health, income and population over two centuries.
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heyjackass.com
Unofficial statistical tracker of Chicago crime data, updated relentlessly.
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hollywoodagegap.com
Charts the age difference between actors playing love interests in films, and it is often bleak.
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homicide.igarape.org.br
Igarape Institute's global data map of homicide rates by country and city.
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whoisinspace.com
Live count of humans currently off the planet, with names and mission details.
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imcdb.org
The Internet Movie Cars Database — identifies every vehicle that appears in almost any film or TV show, shot by shot.
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importyeti.com
Searchable database of US customs import records that reveals which factories and overseas suppliers a company ships from.
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informationisbeautiful.net
David McCandless's gallery of meticulously designed data visualisations.
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archive.org
A free library of archived web pages, books, films, software and live music, plus the Wayback Machine for seeing any site's past.
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judyrecords.com
Free full-text search across 700+ million United States court cases.
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littlesis.org
Free database mapping who the powerful know — donors, boards and revolving doors.
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eyes.nasa.gov
Live view of which spacecraft NASA's antennas are talking to at this moment.
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ourworldindata.org
Free, open, well-sourced charts and writing on global development, health, energy, climate and inequality.
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map.purpleair.com
Real-time air-quality readings from a global mesh of citizen-owned sensors.
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quiverquant.com
Tracks stock trades disclosed by US senators and representatives, searchable by legislator and ticker.
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semanticscholar.org
A free AI-powered search engine for scientific papers with citation context and auto-generated summaries.
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pudding.cool
Visual essays that answer oddly specific questions with real data and beautiful interactive graphics.
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violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org
A searchable database of corporate misconduct — fines, lawsuits and settlements by parent company.
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worldbirthsanddeaths.com
Live simulated counter of every human birth and death happening right now.
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search.worldcat.org
Searches the catalogues of thousands of libraries worldwide at once.
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worldometers.info
Live-running world counters for population, food, energy and everything else.
about this site →Design & Creativity
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artvee.com
Thousands of high-resolution public-domain paintings, posters and illustrations, free to download and print.
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autodraw.com
Google experiment that guesses what your rough sketch is meant to be and swaps it for a polished illustration.
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behance.net
Adobe's creative portfolio network for showcasing design work, discovering artists, and hiring freelancers.
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bratgenerator.com
Make your own version of the lime-green Brat album cover in seconds.
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bruno-simon.com
Legendary 3D portfolio where you drive a tiny car around to explore the work.
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cameronsworld.net
A gorgeous collage assembled entirely from salvaged GeoCities pages.
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colorhunt.co
A curated, daily-updated feed of four-colour palettes you can copy straight into a project.
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coolors.co
Generate, lock and refine colour palettes by hitting the spacebar, then export them in any format.
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jacopocolo.com
A clock where the current time is also the hex code of the background colour.
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dustfreesolutions.com
Transplant the colour palette of one photograph onto another in your browser.
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inkarnate.com
Browser tool for painting detailed fantasy maps for D&D campaigns and worldbuilding.
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ipiccy.com
Free online photo editor with retouching, filters, collages, and basic design tools right in the browser.
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jspaint.app
Pixel-perfect recreation of classic MS Paint that runs in any browser.
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khushmeen.com
A large set of hand-drawn doodle icons, free for personal and commercial use with no attribution.
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lawsofux.com
A gorgeously designed reference to 21 psychological principles that govern how people use interfaces.
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nikonsmallworld.com
Annual gallery of the world's most beautiful microscope photography.
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patatap.com
Every key on your keyboard triggers a synchronised sound and animation, turning typing into a playable instrument.
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photopea.com
A full Photoshop clone that runs entirely in your browser and opens PSD, XCF and RAW files without an account.
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piskelapp.com
A free online sprite editor for making animated pixel art, with onion-skinning and GIF/spritesheet export.
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pixilart.com
A pixel-art drawing tool plus a community gallery of other people's pixel work to browse.
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studio.polotno.dev
A free, no-signup Canva alternative for making social graphics, posters and simple designs in the browser.
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rooms.xyz
Build and share tiny interactive 3D rooms in the browser, no modelling skills needed.
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same.energy
Visual search engine that finds images with the same aesthetic feel as your seed image.
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slidescarnival.com
Free, genuinely well-designed PowerPoint and Google Slides templates.
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unsplash.com
High-resolution photographs free for commercial and personal use with no attribution required.
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userinyerface.com
A deliberately hostile interface built to teach you what bad UX feels like.
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weavesilk.com
Draw symmetrical generative art with a mouse and produce something beautiful instantly.
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paveldogreat.github.io
Drag your cursor to swirl photoreal coloured fluid around the screen in real time.
about this site →Entertainment & Fun
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agoodmovietowatch.com
Hand-curated film and show recommendations filtered by mood and streaming service, with no algorithmic filler.
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actsofgord.com
Legendary retail-horror chronicles from the owner of a 90s video game store.
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addictinggames.com
The browser game portal that ate an entire generation's computer-lab hours.
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albinoblacksheep.com
Surviving archive of the Flash animations that defined an era of the internet.
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bestsimilar.com
Enter a film, show or book you loved and get a ranked list of genuinely similar ones.
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bitey.com
Home of Adam Phillips's Brackenwood animations, an early web-animation landmark.
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boardgamearena.com
Play hundreds of real licensed board games online, many of them completely free.
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bored.day
A pile of tiny free browser games for when you have five minutes to kill.
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candybox2.github.io
A text-and-symbol RPG that unfolds into something far bigger than it first appears.
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caps-a-holic.com
Side-by-side screenshot comparisons of different Blu-ray and remaster releases of the same film.
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chronophoto.app
A daily game where you guess the year a historical photo was taken and score by how close you get.
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cleverbot.com
The pre-LLM chatbot that blew everyone's mind, still answering after two decades.
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coolmathgames.com
The browser game archive that survived every school firewall in the 2000s.
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dan-ball.jp
Home of Powder Game and a deep catalogue of Japanese physics-sandbox browser games.
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dragcave.net
Adopt, hatch and breed virtual dragons in a browser game running since 2006.
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explore.org
Hundreds of live nature cams (reefs, bear rivers, puppy rooms) running 24/7.
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fark.com
Long-running curated feed of absurd news headlines with a devoted comment culture.
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foldnfly.com
A searchable database of paper airplane designs with folding diagrams and video instructions, sorted by difficulty and flight type.
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geektyper.com
Choose a fictional hacking interface and mash keys to look extremely busy.
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gizoogle.net
Translates any webpage into Snoop Dogg's vernacular, still running after 20 years.
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hackertyper.net
Mash any keys and watch convincing movie-hacker code pour down the screen.
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homestarrunner.com
The Flash-era cartoon institution that is somehow still making new episodes.
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incognitube.com
Serves up YouTube videos that essentially nobody has ever watched.
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r74n.com
Cooking simulator where you combine ingredients to discover an endless recipe tree.
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ishtar-collective.net
Fan-built, beautifully organised archive of all the lore text from Destiny.
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justwatch.com
Search any film or show and see which streaming services in your country have it, free or paid.
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metafilter.com
The old-web community weblog where members post the best things they found online.
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movielens.org
Non-commercial research recommender that suggests films from your own ratings, with IMDb import.
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myretrotvs.com
Watch archived programming on a rendered vintage television set, decade by decade.
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90s.myretrotvs.com
Simulated 90s television set with channels and years you can flip through.
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nationstates.net
Run a nation by answering one policy dilemma at a time and watch the stats warp.
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neal.fun
Neal Agarwal's collection of 40+ interactive toys and explainers, including Absurd Trolley Problems, The Password Game, Asteroid Launcher and The Deep Sea.
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nestflix.fun
A Netflix-style catalogue of the fake movies and TV shows that only exist inside other movies and TV shows.
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nicegamehints.com
Gives puzzle-game hints graded so you get unstuck without spoiling the solution.
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nobody.live
Drops you into a randomly chosen live Twitch stream that currently has zero viewers.
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noclip.website
Fly freely through the maps of dozens of classic video games in your browser.
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eviloverlord.com
The definitive 100-item guide to not blowing it as a fantasy villain.
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petittube.com
Plays only YouTube videos with almost no views — the true obscure end of the site.
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playphrase.me
Type any phrase and it plays back every movie clip where a character says it.
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quickdraw.withgoogle.com
Doodle a prompt in 20 seconds and watch a neural net try to guess what you drew.
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amanita-design.net
The original free browser game from Amanita, still strange and beautiful.
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sandboxels.r74n.com
Falling-sand chemistry sandbox with hundreds of interacting elements and reactions.
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sandspiel.club
Gorgeous falling-sand simulator with a gallery of creations from other players.
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scp-wiki.wikidot.com
Collaborative fiction wiki documenting thousands of anomalous objects in clinical prose.
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tastedive.com
Cross-media recommendation engine for music, film, TV, books and games.
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territorial.io
Deceptively simple multiplayer map-conquest game that is genuinely hard to master.
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boredbutton.com
One button that fires you at a random weird corner of the web, forever.
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powdertoy.co.uk
Full-featured physics sandbox for building machines out of simulated matter.
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thewikigame.com
Race from one Wikipedia article to another using only in-article links.
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tv.garden
Spin a globe and watch live broadcast television from any country on it.
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decisionproblem.com
Clicker game that quietly turns into the best playable lesson in AI alignment.
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Learning & Education
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acko.net
Steven Wittens's blog with interactive WebGL explanations of maths and graphics.
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algebrarules.com
Every basic algebra rule you actually need, on one clean, memorable page.
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animatedknots.com
Every useful knot demonstrated as a step-by-step animation you can scrub through frame by frame.
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aldaily.com
Long-running curated feed of the best essays, criticism and ideas writing on the web.
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ciechanow.ski
Interactive, animated deep-dives explaining how watches, lenses and engines really work.
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betterexplained.com
Maths concepts explained with intuition and analogies first, formulas second.
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classcentral.com
Searchable index of tens of thousands of free online courses from universities and companies, including which ones award free certificates.
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everything2.com
Pre-Wikipedia collaborative writing community where entries are essays, not encyclopedia stubs.
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existentialcomics.com
Philosophy webcomic that is both genuinely funny and a real intro to the canon.
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flagmatch.com
Quick game for matching every country to its flag until you actually know them.
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play.freerice.com
A vocabulary and trivia quiz that donates rice through the UN World Food Programme for every correct answer.
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globalgreyebooks.com
Thousands of free, well-formatted public-domain ebooks in PDF, ePub and Kindle formats.
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morse.withgoogle.com
Teaches you Morse code in roughly 15 minutes using mnemonics and spaced practice.
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hacksplaining.com
Interactive walk-throughs of common web vulnerabilities — SQL injection, XSS, CSRF — from both attacker and defender sides.
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howacarworks.com
Illustrated guides and video courses explaining how every major car system and engine component operates.
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jetpunk.com
Enormous library of timed trivia quizzes that will actually teach you the world map.
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khanacademy.org
Free, structured courses and practice for maths, science, economics and test prep, from primary school to early university.
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learnxinyminutes.com
Whirlwind tours of 100+ programming languages as a single heavily-commented code file each.
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lifemap.cnrs.fr
Tree of life explorer with pan-and-zoom navigation that works like a map.
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literature-map.com
Type an author and see a constellation of writers whose readers also love them.
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makingsoftware.com
Illustrated, animated explanations of how software and hardware actually work.
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gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
University of Tokyo tool that shows Japanese pitch accent for words and full sentences.
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onezoom.org
An infinitely zoomable, fractal map of the evolutionary relationships between 2.2 million species.
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openlibrary.org
The Internet Archive's lending library: search millions of books and borrow many of them free in the browser.
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openstax.org
Peer-reviewed, genuinely free college textbooks across maths, science, social science and business.
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gutenberg.org
75,000+ public-domain ebooks, free to download in every common format with no account.
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py4e.com
Free full Python course from Dr. Charles Severance with video lectures, exercises, and an online textbook.
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readsomethinginteresting.com
One button that serves a random genuinely interesting blog post.
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scaleofuniverse.com
Zoom smoothly from quantum foam to the observable universe on one scroll bar.
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scratch.mit.edu
MIT's block-based programming playground where millions of kids build their first game.
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simplyscripts.com
Huge free archive of movie, TV and radio scripts for studying how they're written.
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mystery.knightlab.com
Learn SQL by querying a fictional police database to solve a murder.
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pepysdiary.com
The 1660s diary published one entry per day, with annotations from readers.
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ncase.me
Playable explainer on game theory that makes the prisoner's dilemma click.
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feynmanlectures.caltech.edu
Caltech's complete, free, beautifully typeset online edition of Feynman's undergraduate physics lectures.
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physicsoftheuniverse.com
A patient, jargon-light tour of cosmology, quantum theory and relativity.
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theredhandfiles.com
Nick Cave answers strangers' questions with startling honesty and no interviewer.
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whichbook.net
Find your next novel by setting sliders for mood, tone, setting and character.
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wolframalpha.com
Computational knowledge engine that answers math, science, and data questions with step-by-step results instead of links.
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worldwidetelescope.org
Explore a stitched digitised sky survey with thousands of archived astronomy images.
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youglish.com
Hear any word or phrase pronounced by real speakers in thousands of YouTube clips.
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stars.chromeexperiments.com
Fly through a 3D map of our stellar neighbourhood, zooming from the Sun out to the shape of the Milky Way.
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atlasobscura.com
A crowd-built guide to the world's strangest places, foods and hidden wonders, mapped and searchable.
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map.blitzortung.org
A volunteer-run network showing lightning strikes worldwide within seconds of them happening.
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darksitefinder.com
Light-pollution map for finding somewhere you can actually see the Milky Way.
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driveandlisten.app
Drive through dozens of cities in dashcam footage while listening to that city's local radio.
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earth.nullschool.net
Hypnotic animated globe of live wind, weather, ocean currents and particulate data.
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fallingfruit.org
A crowdsourced world map of edible fruit trees and forageable plants growing on public land.
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flightradar24.com
Live map of nearly every aircraft in the sky, with routes, aircraft type and altitude.
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geotastic.net
Free crowdfunded multiplayer geography guessing game in the GeoGuessr mold.
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hoodmaps.com
Crowdsourced, brutally honest maps of what locals actually call each part of a city.
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joshworth.com
A scrolling, true-to-scale map of the solar system that makes the sheer emptiness of space viscerally obvious.
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komoot.com
Route planner for hiking and cycling built on community-verified trail data.
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liveuamap.com
Live conflict and breaking-events map built from geolocated open-source reports.
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mapchart.net
Colour in your own custom world, country and historical maps and export them.
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marinetraffic.com
Live tracking of cargo ships and vessels worldwide with routes and arrival estimates.
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native-land.ca
Type any address and see which Indigenous nations' territories, languages and treaties cover that land.
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ocearch.org
Follow individually tagged great white sharks as they ping their locations.
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oldmapsonline.org
Search a century-spanning archive of historical maps by location and year, from library collections worldwide.
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oyster.com
Hotel review site built on unedited photos and in-person expert inspections rather than user submissions.
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randomstreetview.com
Teleports you to a genuinely random Google Street View location anywhere on Earth.
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river-runner-global.samlearner.com
Drop a raindrop anywhere on Earth and follow its exact path downstream all the way to the ocean.
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apps.sentinel-hub.com
Browse free Sentinel satellite imagery of anywhere on Earth in multiple spectral bands.
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shademap.app
Overlays accurate sun and shadow simulation on a world map for any date and time of day.
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thetruesize.com
Drag countries around the Mercator projection to see how badly the map lies about size.
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ventusky.com
Beautifully rendered global weather animation showing wind, gusts, precipitation and pressure over time.
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wikimapia.org
Crowd-annotated world map where anyone can label and describe any place.
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window-swap.com
Look out of a stranger's window, somewhere else in the world, in real time footage they submitted.
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windy.com
Animated, layerable weather maps covering wind, rain, temperature, waves, air quality and hurricane tracks.
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asoftmurmur.com
Mix rain, thunder, waves, fire and coffee-shop chatter into a custom ambient background for focus or sleep.
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sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk
16,000+ BBC sound effects, searchable and free to download for personal, educational and research use.
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musiclab.chromeexperiments.com
A set of hands-on browser experiments that teach rhythm, harmony, spectrograms and oscillators by letting you play with them.
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conservethesound.de
An audio museum preserving the sounds of obsolete objects — rotary phones, typewriters, film projectors, dial-up modems.
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everynoise.com
A scatterplot of thousands of music genres, click any dot to hear what "drift phonk" or "throat singing" actually sounds like.
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frequency2156.com
Crowd-built soundscape imagining what Earth's radio broadcasts sound like in 2156.
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gnoosic.com
Name three bands you love and it recommends artists you probably haven't heard.
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hooktheory.com
A searchable database of 10,000+ chord progressions from real songs, with the theory behind why they work.
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music.ishkur.com
An opinionated, annotated, playable genealogy of every electronic music subgenre.
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listen.hatnote.com
Plays a bell or string note for every live Wikipedia edit, sized by how big the edit was.
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lofiatc.com
Layers live air traffic control radio from any major airport over lo-fi hip hop.
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music-map.com
Type in a band and get a spatial cloud of similar artists, closer meaning more similar.
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musicmap.info
Enormous genealogy of every popular music genre, with history and audio examples.
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naturallanguageplaylist.com
Describe a mood or absurd musical premise in plain English and get a matching Spotify playlist.
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poolsuite.net
80s-styled music player and video mixtape with a full retro Mac desktop interface.
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radio.garden
Spin a 3D globe and drop into live local radio stations anywhere on Earth.
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radiooooo.com
Pick a country and a decade on a world map and hear the music people were actually listening to there.
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thenostalgiamachine.com
Pick a year and instantly hear the hits that were everywhere at the time.
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webamp.org
A pixel-perfect Winamp 2.9 reimplementation in the browser, skins and all, that plays your own files.
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websdr.org
Tune software-defined radio receivers around the world live from your browser.
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10minutemail.com
Throwaway email address that self-destructs ten minutes after you use it.
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themarkup.org
Scans any website and shows you exactly which trackers, session recorders and fingerprinting scripts it runs on you.
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coveryourtracks.eff.org
EFF's tool that tests how uniquely identifiable your browser fingerprint is and how well your blockers actually work.
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haveibeenpwned.com
Check whether your email address or password has appeared in a known data breach.
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justdeleteme.xyz
A directory of direct links for deleting your account from hundreds of web services, rated by how painful each is.
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linkcleaner.app
Strips tracking parameters and referral junk out of URLs before you share them.
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pimeyes.com
Reverse face-search engine that finds photos of a person across the web (with an opt-out you may want).
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privacyguides.org
A non-commercial, community-maintained guide to privacy-respecting software, services and threat modelling.
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temp-mail.org
Instant disposable inbox for signups you don't want attached to your real email.
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tosdr.org
Graded, plain-English summaries of the terms of service of major websites so you know what you actually agreed to.
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webkay.robinlinus.com
Shows you, in one page, everything your browser silently reveals to every site you visit.
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adjustabletimer.com
Dead-simple browser timer that's faster than picking up your phone.
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cheatography.com
Thousands of printable one-page cheat sheets for software, languages, keyboard shortcuts and more.
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excalidraw.com
A hand-drawn-style whiteboard for diagrams and sketches that needs no account and exports to PNG/SVG.
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hemingwayapp.com
Paste your writing and it highlights dense sentences, passive voice and adverbs to make the prose clearer.
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notepad.js.org
Instant browser notepad that saves locally with no account and no clutter.
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onelook.com
Describe a concept in plain words and it hands you back the word you were groping for.
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pdfescape.com
Browser-based PDF editor for filling forms, annotating, and rearranging pages without installing software.
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raindrop.io
All-in-one bookmark manager that makes saved links actually findable again.
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ramblefix.com
Speak freely into your mic and AI cleans up the rambling into tidy written text.
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rhymezone.com
Rhymes, near-rhymes, synonyms, related words and usage examples, all in one very fast lookup.
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timeanddate.com
The definitive toolkit for timezones, meeting planners and event time announcers.
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typelit.io
Practise touch typing by retyping entire classic novels instead of random word drills.
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usethekeyboard.com
A clean, open-source directory of keyboard shortcuts for hundreds of apps and websites.
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worldchatclock.com
Visual timezone overlap finder that shows when scattered teammates can actually meet.
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bookfinder.com
Searches millions of new, used and rare books across sellers by any detail you remember.
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camelcamelcamel.com
Shows the full price history of any Amazon product so you can tell whether a "deal" is actually a deal.
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invitecount.com
Beautiful wedding websites with zero stress: modern, designer-quality themes plus seamless RSVP and guest management in one place.
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cloudconvert.com
Converts between 200+ file formats (documents, images, audio, video, ebooks) in the browser with no install.
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downforeveryoneorjustme.com
Settles instantly whether a site is actually down or your connection is broken.
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fieggen.com
An obsessively thorough catalogue of shoelace knots, lacing patterns and why your laces keep coming undone.
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ilovepdf.com
Merge, split, compress, sign, unlock and repair PDFs for free without creating an account.
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justtherecipe.com
Paste a recipe URL and get only the ingredients and steps, with zero life story.
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kagi.com
A feed of recent posts from personal blogs and independent sites, algorithm-free.
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keybr.com
Adaptive typing trainer that generates words targeting the exact keys you keep missing.
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monkeytype.com
Minimalist, deeply customizable typing test that people set as their new-tab page.
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musclewiki.com
Click a muscle on an interactive body diagram and get exercises, GIFs and form notes for it.
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ninite.com
Tick the apps you want and it builds one installer that sets them all up with no toolbars or bundled junk.
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omnicalculator.com
Over 3,000 free, well-explained calculators covering finance, physics, health, construction and everyday math.
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pairdrop.net
Open-source, browser-based AirDrop that sends files and text between any two devices on the same network.
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pcpartpicker.com
PC build planner that checks part compatibility and compares live component prices across retailers.
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puter.com
Open-source 'internet computer' — a full desktop OS running inside your browser tab.
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regex101.com
Regex tester that explains every token of your pattern as you write it.
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regexr.com
Build, test and understand regular expressions with live highlighting and a plain-English breakdown of each token.
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remove.bg
Drops the background out of any photo automatically in a couple of seconds.
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shouldseethis.com
Curated collection of cool, weird, useful and interesting corners of the web.
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silex.me
Free open-source drag-and-drop website builder that exports clean static HTML with no vendor lock-in.
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squoosh.app
Google's in-browser image compressor with live side-by-side quality comparison.
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stilltasty.com
Tells you how long any food actually keeps in the pantry, fridge or freezer, and when to bin it.
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suckless.org
Home of radically minimal Unix software built on the philosophy that less is more.
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supercook.com
Tick off what's actually in your fridge and it surfaces recipes you can make right now with nothing extra.
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theuseful.website
Hand-built directory of genuinely useful websites you would otherwise never find.
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play.typeracer.com
Race real people in real time by typing passages as fast as you can.
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wttr.in
Weather forecasts rendered as ASCII art, readable in a browser or straight from your terminal with curl.
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arngren.net
A Norwegian gadget shop with the most gloriously chaotic layout on the web.
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celebheights.com
Obsessively detailed one-man database dedicated to debunking celebrity height claims.
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line-mode.cern.ch
Faithful emulation of the 1990s text browser, showing the web exactly as it was invented.
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cloudhiker.net
A modern StumbleUpon that sends you to hand-curated interesting websites by category.
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cockeyed.com
One man's decades-long archive of homemade experiments, pranks and price comparisons.
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cultofthepartyparrot.com
The complete canonical archive of animated party parrot emoji.
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dearnextvisitor.com
Read a message left by the previous stranger, then leave one for the next.
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drivemeinsane.com
Control the lights and devices in one man's house over a live webcam feed.
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eelslap.com
Drag your mouse to slap a man with an eel. That is the entire website.
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floor796.com
An ever-expanding, hand-animated single-scene mural of life on the 796th floor of a space station, packed with pop-culture cameos.
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futilitycloset.com
Daily servings of historical curiosities, mathematical oddities and lateral puzzles.
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gail.com
The page you land on when you typo "gmail" — the owner's long-suffering, very funny explanation of why she won't sell it.
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goldfishies.com
Calming aquarium of colourful fish drifting endlessly across your screen.
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ihasabucket.com
A monument to one of the oldest surviving image macros on the internet.
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walzr.com
Archive of camera-roll videos accidentally uploaded to YouTube by an old iPhone feature.
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libraryofbabel.info
A working implementation of Borges' library containing every book that could ever be written.
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lingscars.com
A real car-leasing business behind the most aggressively maximalist site online.
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liveatc.net
Listen to live air traffic control radio feeds from airports around the world.
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monkeys.zip
A live, running experiment testing the infinite monkey theorem — thousands of virtual monkeys typing toward Shakespeare.
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ninjaburger.com
An elaborate fake fast-food chain staffed by ninjas, running since 1999.
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omfgdogs.com
Single-purpose joke site showing an endless herd of dogs running across your screen to upbeat music.
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orb.farm
Build and tend a tiny sealed aquatic ecosystem with sand, algae, plants and fish, and watch it find balance.
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dood.al
An interactive human vocal tract you can pinch, stretch and blow through to synthesise speech-like noises.
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planecrashinfo.com
Sobering archive of final cockpit voice recordings from aviation accidents.
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pointerpointer.com
Wherever you put your cursor, it finds a photo of a person pointing at exactly that spot.
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popcat.click
Click a cat, it pops, and your country climbs a global leaderboard of pointless clicking.
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postsecret.com
Anonymous strangers mail in their secrets on decorated postcards, published every Sunday.
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presidentialham.com
An oil painting of every US president holding a ham. No further explanation offered.
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procatinator.com
Pairs a random cat GIF with a random song, occasionally achieving perfection.
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realultimatepower.net
The 2002 ninja fan site that basically invented internet absurdist humour.
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staggeringbeauty.com
Wiggle your mouse at a rubbery worm and things escalate (epilepsy warning).
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cuberule.com
A deadpan taxonomy that settles whether a hot dog is a sandwich by counting which faces of a cube hold starch.
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milliondollarhomepage.com
Frozen in 2005: a million pixels of banner ads that made a student a millionaire.
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thenicestplace.net
An endless stream of strangers sending you hugs. That's it, and it works.
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theuselessweb.com
One button that flings you to a completely pointless corner of the internet.
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thispersondoesnotexist.com
Refresh for an endless supply of photorealistic faces of people who never existed.
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unicodesnowmanforyou.com
A website that exists solely to give you a unicode snowman. ☃
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unitednuclear.com
A scientific supply shop selling uranium ore and aerogel, with home experiment guides.
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whattimeisitrightnow.com
The BoJack Horseman tie-in site that never answers its own domain name — Philbert artwork and a permanent 'coming soon'.
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wiby.me
A search engine that indexes only lightweight, hand-made, JavaScript-free pages, plus a "surprise me" button into the old web.
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windows93.net
A fake retro operating system in your browser, full of hidden apps and jokes.
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youryoure.com
A single page that settles the difference, permanently, for someone.
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html5zombo.com
The immortal parody splash page where you can do anything, anything at all.
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zoomquilt.org
An infinitely zooming painting that loops seamlessly into itself forever.
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