AltF originals

Games built here rather than embedded from elsewhere — no ads inside the frame and no third party watching you play.

A visual board for collecting images and ideas, without an algorithm deciding what you should have been collecting instead.

Lists, quizzes and the sort of low-stakes internet reading that fills a break without requiring anything of you.

Layer rain, wind, waves, fire and café chatter, then set each one to the level you want. Survives being left open all day.

India's monuments, crafts and regional history laid out as something you explore rather than something you revise.

Mash any keys and immaculate code appears on screen at speed. Enormously convincing to anyone standing more than a metre away.

A timer that counts how long you manage to do nothing at all. Move the mouse, press a key, or scroll and it starts again from zero.

One sincere, specific compliment per click, written by people rather than generated. For days that have not gone well.

Short, sourced facts arranged so one leads into the next. Built for the specific pleasure of learning something you can repeat.

Aircraft moving across a live map with routes, altitudes and speeds. Startling once you notice how much is up there at once.

The full arcade — hundreds of browser games sorted by type, all playable immediately with nothing to install.

A sheet of bubble wrap that never runs out. Pop with a click or drag across a row, and it refills the moment you finish.

Every key on the keyboard fires a different sound and a matching burst of animation. No two letters look or sound alike.

Fakes a phone's live activity banner — a food delivery, a match score, a boarding pass — for screenshots and mockups.

Generate a fake newspaper clipping, a talking animation or a ransom note. The 2005 internet, rebuilt so it still works.

Where each meme came from, when it peaked and what it turned into. The internet's own footnotes, properly sourced.

Build a convincing fake post, chat or notification for a joke or a mockup. Watermarked so nobody mistakes it for the real thing.

Type a surname and get where it came from, what it originally meant and where in the world it still clusters.

Spin a globe, drop on a city, hear whatever its local radio is playing right now. Works best somewhere you have never been.

Draw a circle with one unbroken stroke and get scored on how round it actually was. Nobody beats 97% on a trackpad.

Proper trait questionnaires with the scoring shown, rather than a quiz that decides you are a golden retriever.

Put one worry into a star and watch it shrink into the distance over sixty seconds. Faintly ridiculous, reliably effective.

Full-screen fake terminals, fake updates and fake system alerts. Harmless, closeable with Escape, and very funny on a colleague's screen.

Take a quiz or build one and send it on. Results are shareable without anybody having to make an account first.

Reaction time, visual memory, number span and typing speed, each scored against everyone else who has taken it.

Converts your scrolling into real distance and tells you what you have just passed — a giraffe, the Eiffel Tower, low Earth orbit.

An infinite canvas for rough diagrams and flows. Opens instantly with nothing to configure and no file to save first.

Long-form serialised fiction with a reader built for actually reading — chapter memory, no pop-ups, no interruptions.

One large red button and a clear instruction not to press it. It gets increasingly personal about the fact that you keep pressing it.

Flick the switch on. A small hand reaches out and turns it off again. That is the entire website and it is somehow enough.

Type anything at all and watch it drift upward and dissolve. Nothing is stored, nothing is sent, nothing can be recovered.

Look out of a stranger's window somewhere else in the world for as long as you like, then swap to another one.