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Sites that land in one sentence of setup — the ones you send to a group chat rather than bookmark for yourself.
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Draw a horse, then watch it gallop off to join the herd of terrible horses drawn by everybody else.
Tim Rowett's collection of optical toys and physics oddities, each demonstrated on camera by a man visibly delighted with all of it.
Choose ten items in the right order and the cube blossoms into something absurd; choose the wrong order and it sulks at you.
Comic-strip teardowns of real product decisions, each one explaining the psychology behind why it did or did not work.
The official register of the longest, fastest and most improbable things people have done entirely on purpose.
Mash any keys and perfectly formatted code appears character by character, exactly as in every hacking scene ever filmed.
Ragdoll obstacle courses in which the dad on the bicycle loses limbs to almost anything he touches, across millions of user levels.
One word of reassurance about the Large Hadron Collider, maintained since 2008 and still, reassuringly, saying no.
Shoot the alien whose colour matches the hex code shown. Learning to read hex by sight is an accidental side effect.
Placeholder text made of artisanal nonsense, optionally cut with real Latin for clients who prefer not to notice.
Old photographs pinned to the exact street corner where they were taken, fading into the modern view behind.
Allie Brosh's illustrated essays, including the two on depression that remain the best thing written about it.
The lolcat archive that taught the internet its first grammar, still posting captioned animals two decades later.
Spot the serif among the sans-serifs before the timer runs out. Ten seconds long and disproportionately stressful.
Every known way to lace and tie a shoe, diagrammed by one Australian for over two decades, including a knot he invented himself.
Several hundred psychological tests, from serious personality inventories to deeply unserious ones, all free and all instant.
A map of the solar system drawn to true scale, meaning most of your scrolling is spent crossing absolutely nothing.
Mocks up a screenshot of a conversation that never happened, for jokes and design mock-ups rather than anything serious.
Popular science headlines with the volume turned up, handy for the fact you half-remember reading somewhere.
Warps a photograph through a draggable mesh, so faces melt by exactly as much as you decide they should.
Every meme template with the text boxes already in the right places, and no watermark once you find the setting.
Post-apocalyptic comedy RPG with turn-based fights, base building and a tone somewhere between Douglas Adams and a mild fever.
Every plant and animal anybody has photographed and posted, mapped, with a community that will identify your mystery beetle within hours.
Dress beatboxers in different outfits and each one adds a loop, building a full a cappella track by drag and drop.
Combine two things to make a third, forever, until you have coaxed a language model into inventing something absurd.
One big button, one badum-tss, for punchlines that need help landing in a meeting nobody is enjoying.
Step-by-step build guides for anything from a bookshelf to a plasma cutter, written by the people who actually made the thing.
The real museum of 25,000 banana-related objects has a website, and it looks exactly as you are already imagining.
A vast and aggressively plain archive of religious and mythological texts, essentially unchanged since the old web.
Answers the question in one word, correctly, in ninety languages, and has done every single day since 2009.
Answers the question with a single word, and has been right every single time anybody has checked.
A fake enterprise interface that rewards clicking dialogue boxes with more dialogue boxes, by an art-games designer.
A marketplace of language tutors giving one-to-one video lessons at wildly varying prices and standards.
The indie storefront where thousands of experiments run free in the browser, and where the deeply strange ones are the point.
Every point-and-click game indie developers have uploaded to itch, most playable in the tab, most made by exactly one person.
The party packs everybody streams: one screen shared with the room, everybody else playing from their own phone browser.
Kaomoji, dongers and text faces sorted by category, with a copy button attached to every single one of them.
Multiplayer jigsaws where several people drag pieces around the same table at once, mostly getting in each other's way.
Net art from 1995 that looks precisely like your computer failing. View the source: the mess on screen is hiding the actual work.
Drags the guts of a JPEG around with three sliders, producing the smeared colour blocks that only broken files make.
The quiz platform from every classroom and every away-day, with a free tier and a room code that anybody can join in seconds.
Thousands of Japanese emoticons sorted by emotion, running from mild confusion all the way to full table flipping.
Seattle public radio with the famous in-studio live sessions, a human DJ on air at all hours and a playlist page that credits everything.
Stick-figure RPG that has been landing daily jokes since 2003, wrapped around a combat and item system far deeper than the drawings imply.
The reference desk of internet culture, with sourced origins and dates for jokes you never knew had a paper trail.
Start with one enormous dot; every pass of the cursor splits it into four, until the pixels resolve into a picture.
Gossip written as media criticism, tracking how celebrity stories get placed and who stands to benefit from the placing.
Free audio courses that teach by making you work out the grammar yourself, made by one person with no adverts.