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The same idea moved a decade forward. Flip channels through the nineties and land somewhere between a cartoon and a cereal advert.
The default anime and manga database and tracker since 2004, and the source of the scores everyone else ends up quoting.
The largest soundboard on the web with a search box, which makes it either a toy or a workplace hazard.
Hundreds of calibrated soundscapes with ten-slider equalisers, built by an audio engineer who takes tinnitus relief seriously.
Fictional US national park built inside a colossal living organism, documented entirely as tourist brochures and incident reports.
A twenty-level escape game from 2001 that defined the whole genre several years before the genre had a name for itself.
Live tracking for thousands of satellites, with pass predictions for your postcode and a map of everything above you right now.
Type a surname and get where it came from, what it originally meant and where in the world it still clusters.
The American government's public database of missing and unidentified persons, searchable by absolutely anyone.
Capture the flag with bows and low-poly castles, where arcing a shot over a wall beats raw reflexes almost every time.
Active fire and thermal anomaly detections from NASA satellites, updated within hours of each pass and quietly sobering at continental zoom.
Every photograph, video and audio recording NASA has released, searchable and free to use for anything.
The official live stream, which for long stretches is simply Earth turning below the space station.
The full NASA satellite archive as daily global mosaics, with a date slider you can drag back two decades to watch ice, dust and smoke move.
The searchable index of American federal records, running from founding documents to recently declassified memos.
Canada put its entire animation and documentary archive online for free, and some of it is the strangest work any government ever funded.
The official Atlantic and Pacific hurricane advisories, cones of uncertainty and discussion notes written in plain prose by duty forecasters.
Georeferenced Ordnance Survey sheets you can fade against satellite imagery to see exactly what got demolished.
Run a country by answering one absurd policy dilemma a day, then watch your statistics drift somewhere you did not intend.
The live feed from a deep-sea research ship's remote submersible, complete with scientists audibly losing composure over a new sea cucumber.
Neal Agarwal's collection of one-idea interactive toys, from spending Bill Gates' money to scrolling the whole ocean floor.
A blog of neat things — odd history, strange products, good comics — running since 2005 with no algorithm involved.
A free host for handmade personal sites in the Neocities spirit, with a browse page full of members' pages to click through.
A free host built as a deliberate successor to GeoCities, full of hand-written personal pages by people who wanted to make one.
The 1999 virtual pet site whose real game was always the economy — shops, a stock market and genuinely vicious restocking.
Wordle for equations: eight tiles holding one arithmetic statement that has to balance as well as being correct.
Rhizome's restored survey of a hundred works of net art, each with the context needed to understand why it mattered.
Board games rebuilt for a group on a video call, with each person playing from their own phone. Codenames and Wavelength included.
The link at the end of every bait-and-switch since 2007, and the reason nobody fully trusts a shortened URL.
The chaotic original, still hosting animation and games uploaded since 1999, and still the least sanitised corner of the web.
UK spoof news updated several times a day, best read as running commentary on whatever is currently going wrong.
A morning briefing of good stories, written for people who want a news habit that does not ruin breakfast.
Thirty years of usability research written up plainly and still free to read, which is why everyone cites it.
A permanent vaporwave station with fake adverts, a virtual room and album art on a CRT, running continuously for about a decade.
A ninja, flexing, to a backing track, at a frame rate suggesting nobody involved was trying especially hard.
The studio behind Bloons, with a browser games shelf that still hosts the tower defence titles the genre was built on.
Racing where the accelerator is your typing speed, making it the only competitive driving game that leaves you better at something.
A British studio that made pixel-perfect browser games for fifteen years and then put the entire back catalogue up free.
The thirty-minute aurora forecast as an oval of probability drawn over the poles, which is the only honest way to plan a night out for it.
Rain, wind, fan and coffee-shop loops you layer into one background mix, then save as a preset for the rest of the week.
Retail and service workers' stories about customers, filed daily, and a bottomless argument for tipping generously.
Everybody notable enough for a Wikipedia entry, plotted at their birthplace, so you can find out who else came from your town.
Fast, minimal tracker that pings you the moment a followed episode airs. Open source and deliberately kept lightweight.
The riddle that calls itself the hardest on the internet, played by editing URLs and reading page source.
Minecraft skin editor with a 3D preview you can spin, plus a gallery of other people's skins to take apart and reuse.
One well-sourced strange story per weekday, told at exactly the length of a cup of coffee.
London online radio with thousands of shows in the archive, most presented by somebody with an unreasonable record collection.
The US National Weather Service radar, unstyled and authoritative, with warning polygons drawn straight over the raw returns.
One button, one detour. Press it as often as you like.