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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 vaporwave station running continuously since 2015, wrapped in a desktop you can rearrange while it plays.
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.
The pop-tart cat, the rainbow and the song, with a counter for how many seconds of your life you have handed over.
Nine hundred thousand digitised items from the New York Public Library, a large share of it public domain.
Notebooks for building charts in the browser, with a public gallery of thousands you can fork and pull apart.
Physically modelled sea you can retune — wind speed, swell, choppiness — rendering waves that behave properly.
Tagged great whites ping their position whenever a fin breaks the surface, each shark named, weighed and given its own profile page.
Feed of products that should not exist, from bacon-scented soap to a hammock designed to hang under your desk.
The LiveJournal community that outlived LiveJournal, still posting celebrity news with the comment threads doing the work.
A cabinet of small physics experiments — cloth, water, ragdolls, particles — built by one developer who simply kept going.
Eldritch horror podcast set in an alternate Appalachia where the mountains are older than people and considerably less friendly.
Search hundreds of thousands of scanned historical maps by place and date, held by libraries worldwide.
The 2007 build of RuneScape, still updated by player vote and still fully playable in a browser tab you should not have open.
Radio drama, comedy and serials from before television took over, in quantities that would take several lifetimes to finish.
Eighty thousand New York photographs from the 1870s onwards, mapped to the corners they were shot on.
Browses the archives through emulated period browsers, so an old page renders the way it did rather than the way Chrome guesses.
An encyclopedia of the world's writing systems, including the invented, the extinct and the barely attested.
A million checkboxes shared by everyone at once. Ticking them was pointless right up until people started writing messages in binary.
One minute of footage from a park somewhere in the world, matched to the exact minute you happen to be watching.
Screenshots of archived GeoCities pages posted automatically, one after another, as a rolling portrait of the amateur web.
Where English words came from, sourced and dated, compiled by one man who has been at it since 2000.
The English-speaking world's Go server, where correspondence games run for weeks and somebody always explains why your move was bad.
Station listings for nearly every country, each with a playlist history so you can identify the track that finished before you looked up.
Multi-instrument piano roll in a browser, backed by thousands of user sequences you can open, pull apart and ruin.
Hand-curated index of several thousand active blogs, sorted by subject, for when you want writing rather than a feed.
Twenty years of large-format photography inside abandoned asylums, power stations and factories, catalogued site by site.
A daily index of the free courses, audiobooks, films and ebooks scattered across the rest of the internet.
Scan a barcode and get ingredients, additives and a nutrition score from a database anyone can edit. Wikipedia for groceries.
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