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Korean home cooking taught with video for everything, including how to make the kimchi rather than quietly buy a jar of it.

A convincing macOS desktop rebuilt in Svelte, dock animations included, running entirely inside the browser.

The same ramp-covered playground with strangers in it, all attempting the same enormous jump and all missing it.

An empty city full of ramps and supercars with no objectives at all, which turns out to be the entire objective.

Official home of the autostereograms from every 1990s shopping centre, with a fresh one each week to go cross-eyed at.

Deliberately tiny paint tool inside a fake old window, with fat pixels and a palette that makes clumsy art look intentional.

One button, one progress bar, and the firm assurance that everything is now OK, which beats the alternative.

Everyone captions the same image, then votes on the best one. Rounds are short and a group works out its own humour quickly.

The maker movement's own magazine: projects, tool reviews and the long-running argument about what counts as making something.

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

Vintage photographs of shopping centres in their fountains-and-ferns prime, scanned from postcards and other people's family albums.

Kaleidoscopic drawing surface with adjustable mirror counts, so one wobbly line comes back as a symmetrical mandala.

Zoom into the Mandelbrot set as far as the arithmetic allows, with palette controls and no plugin to install.

The manga-side release tracker, covering scanlation status and licensing across tens of thousands of series since 2001.

Millions of product manuals as PDFs, for the appliance whose paperwork went in the recycling back in 2011.

Every open source project plotted as a landmass, with related repositories clustering into continents you can pan across.

Colour in countries, states or regions and export the result, which is where most of the maps you see argued about online are made.

Drops you on a random road somewhere on Earth in Street View and leaves you to work out where you are, or simply wander off down it.

Street-level photography stitched together from volunteers' dashcams and phones, covering a great many roads no Google car ever drove down.

An index deliberately built to favour text-heavy non-commercial pages. Ranking that punishes ad load instead of rewarding it.

Live positions of the world's merchant fleet, container ships down to tugs, most vessels with photographs taken by shore spotters.

Virtual trading contests running on live market data, playable against colleagues without anybody risking actual money.

A meticulous recreation of the falling green glyphs, with settings for every version of the effect across the films.

Live map of which McDonald's ice cream machines are broken, built by repeatedly adding a sundae to a cart. Petty, rigorous, brilliant.

Industrial supply catalogue with half a million parts, organised so well that engineers browse it purely for pleasure.

Every part of a wristwatch exploded and animated in sequence, until the escapement finally makes sense.

Scanned film and broadcasting trade magazines going back to 1904, searchable in full text. The industry writing about itself, live.

A platform where creators publish their own dress-up games, which is largely how the genre survived the death of Flash.

A hand-built indie web hub with a forum, a club of personal sites and guides to making your own homepage the old-fashioned way.

Old School RuneScape's skill grind distilled into a pure idle game, with a free browser version that genuinely never ends.

Runs an image through the exact stack of saturation, JPEG damage and stray emoji that makes a meme look reposted eight times.

The Star Trek wiki, maintained with the rigour of a national archive and roughly the same word count.

Hundreds of matching-pair memory games plus Simon-style sequences, scaled from toddler difficulty to genuinely unpleasant.

The one free IQ test people actually cite: thirty-five matrix puzzles, twenty-five minutes, no email address demanded at the end.

Trivia and origin stories written for the sort of person who reads the plaque next to the exhibit.

Weighted average of professional reviews on a 0-100 scale, with the user score shown separately when the two disagree loudly.

A community weblog running since 1999 where members share the best thing they found online today, with thoughtful threads underneath each post.

Multi-model forecasts with a meteogram showing how confident the models actually are, which most weather apps quietly decline to admit.

Name every station on a city's metro map from memory, and find out how many lines you use daily without ever reading.

Around 140 visual phenomena, each with sliders to break the effect and a vision scientist's explanation of why you fell for it.

Long-running blog of illusions and visual puzzles, from classic ambiguous figures to whichever dress the internet is arguing about.

Search the web with the top million most popular sites removed. What is left is the internet nobody bothers optimising for.

Factory building crossed with tower defence: conveyor belts feed the guns, and the guns hold the line while you fix the belts.

Proper Minesweeper with leaderboards, no-guess boards and enough statistics to prove you are worse at it than you thought.

Proper miniature golf courses with believable putting physics and no time pressure applied at any point.

Every train on the Tokyo rail network moving in real time across a 3D map, with the aircraft landing at Haneda thrown in.

The 2000s browser giant, now mostly a mobile publisher but still hosting 8 Ball Pool and a shelf of its own history.

Decades of archived puzzle hunts from the hardest annual competition of its kind, all of it still playable.