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Send tiny creatures up an infinite tower, die, come back stronger. Years of content behind an interface that gives no quarter.

A taxonomy of every storytelling device ever used, cross-linked so densely that leaving takes actual discipline.

Type words and each letter becomes a drum hit, so your own name comes out as a loop you will struggle to stop playing.

A complete free typing course with lessons, tests and games, the sort of thing schools pay for and this one does not charge.

Vast unofficial archive of avant-garde film, sound and writing, run on no budget whatsoever and hosted like it is still 1998.

The community record of Cicada 3301, the recruitment puzzle whose final book has still never been deciphered.

Uno against bots or friends, with the draw-four arguments fully intact and no cards to lose under the sofa.

Flips your sentence using Unicode lookalikes, so it survives a paste into anywhere that accepts plain text.

Where teenagers make the quizzes: which sad indie song are you, which Greek deity would pity you. Anyone can build one in minutes.

A small publisher of deliberately pointless web projects, including several gag sites you have probably been sent.

Curiously awesome products sold through absurd demonstration videos, most of which are more entertaining than the item itself.

Home-taped VHS uploaded wholesale to the Internet Archive, adverts, tracking lines and accidental recordings included.

Well over a hundred thousand scanned advertisements sorted by decade and subject. A very direct record of what people were told to want.

Home of a long list of absurd browser games and quizzes, several of which have quietly consumed entire office afternoons.

New York Magazine's pop-culture desk, where the recaps and power rankings are better written than the shows deserve.

Very long illustrated essays on artificial intelligence, procrastination and the Fermi paradox, drawn in deliberately bad stick figures.

Four-panel strips whose punchline usually involves death, drawn by two Germans with impeccable comic timing.

A live room of service-dog puppies in training, which is the single most reliable meeting-break on the internet.

Irish satire with no interest in restraint, regularly mistaken for real reporting by people who should know better.

Guess where a teammate placed a concept on a spectrum between two extremes. The most reliable argument-starter on this list.

Eighty live webcam effects, most of them terrible, all of them fun for exactly the ninety seconds required.

Software-defined radio receivers around the world you can tune through a browser, listening to shortwave through somebody else's aerial.

Genuinely baffling real product listings pulled from the big marketplaces and presented with almost no commentary.

The account that rates every dog above ten out of ten and has defended that scale in public for over a decade.

A relationship graph of everybody famous, cross-referenced far past the point of reason and updated constantly.

Instructions for very nearly anything, illustrated in that unmistakable cartoon style. The artwork alone justifies the visit.

One click, one random Wikipedia article, repeated until the afternoon has quietly gone somewhere else.

Wikipedia's own catalogue of the pettiest disputes in its history, including years of war over a hyphen.

The editors' own curated list of the encyclopedia's strangest entries, and the best rabbit hole entrance there is.

A dilemma, a tempting benefit, a horrible catch, and the percentage of everybody else who pressed it regardless.

A parody desktop that gets progressively stranger the more of its programs you open. Start with the solitaire and keep going.

An operating system that never existed, built in a browser, with its own applications and a genuine sense of its own history.

Victorian engravings cut apart and given modern dialogue, producing jokes no other format could quite deliver.

Stick figures on romance, sarcasm, maths and language, with a second joke in the alt text of every single strip.

A vast, barely filtered pile of browser games including a great many Flash-era oddities kept alive by an emulator.

Infinite shared canvas of plain text where anyone can type anywhere. Scroll far enough and you find things nobody meant you to read.

Piles combining diacritics onto every character until your text bleeds into the lines above and below it.

You can do anything at Zombo.com. The welcome message has been loading since 1999 and it has never once explained itself.

Newborn animals from zoos and aquariums worldwide, with their names, weights and the keepers' notes attached.

Feeds your own video call bad audio — echo, crying baby, wind — until everyone agrees the connection is the problem.

Real research that needs human eyes: classify galaxies, transcribe ships' logs or count penguins, and end up in a published paper.