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Sites from the era of personal pages and hand-written HTML, plus the archives that keep that period reachable.
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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.
Multi-model forecasts with a meteogram showing how confident the models actually are, which most weather apps quietly decline to admit.
Search the web with the top million most popular sites removed. What is left is the internet nobody bothers optimising for.
The 2000s browser giant, now mostly a mobile publisher but still hosting 8 Ball Pool and a shelf of its own history.
The Internet Archive's full film and video collection — public domain features, home movies, government reels and stranger things.
Art too bad to be ignored, collected since 1993 and catalogued with entirely straight-faced curatorial commentary.
Click a dial-up modem, a Nokia ringtone or a VHS rewinder and remember precisely where you were standing at the time.
Every format anybody ever stored anything on, documented with photographs and the dates it lived between. Far more than you expect.
Type a band and get a cloud of other bands, positioned by how often listeners like both. Crude, ancient and still weirdly effective.
The open music encyclopedia much of the industry quietly relies on, editable by anybody and free of any label's marketing department.
Long beatless mixes chosen for the state of mind where code actually goes in, delivered as plain numbered episodes.
The default anime and manga database and tracker since 2004, and the source of the scores everyone else ends up quoting.
A twenty-level escape game from 2001 that defined the whole genre several years before the genre had a name for itself.
The American government's public database of missing and unidentified persons, searchable by absolutely anyone.
Active fire and thermal anomaly detections from NASA satellites, updated within hours of each pass and quietly sobering at continental zoom.
The searchable index of American federal records, running from founding documents to recently declassified memos.
Georeferenced Ordnance Survey sheets you can fade against satellite imagery to see exactly what got demolished.
Run a country by answering one absurd policy dilemma a day, then watch your statistics drift somewhere you did not intend.
The live feed from a deep-sea research ship's remote submersible, complete with scientists audibly losing composure over a new sea cucumber.
A blog of neat things — odd history, strange products, good comics — running since 2005 with no algorithm involved.
The 1999 virtual pet site whose real game was always the economy — shops, a stock market and genuinely vicious restocking.
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 British studio that made pixel-perfect browser games for fifteen years and then put the entire back catalogue up free.
Retail and service workers' stories about customers, filed daily, and a bottomless argument for tipping generously.
The riddle that calls itself the hardest on the internet, played by editing URLs and reading page source.
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 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.
Tagged great whites ping their position whenever a fin breaks the surface, each shark named, weighed and given its own profile page.
The LiveJournal community that outlived LiveJournal, still posting celebrity news with the comment threads doing the work.
Search hundreds of thousands of scanned historical maps by place and date, held by libraries worldwide.
Radio drama, comedy and serials from before television took over, in quantities that would take several lifetimes to finish.
An encyclopedia of the world's writing systems, including the invented, the extinct and the barely attested.
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.
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.
A catalogue page for every book ever published, a good many of them borrowable straight in the browser.
Free, ad-free versions of the actual academic instruments, with the collected raw data published for anyone who wants to poke at it.
Stanford's model of travel in the Roman world — pick two cities and get the cost, season and days by road or sea.
Oxford's open charts on poverty, energy, health and war, with the underlying data downloadable from every single one.
John McLeod's encyclopedia of card game rules, covering every regional variant of everything and settling every dispute.
Build sundaes to order under mounting time pressure, the most polished entry in a series about the dignity of service work.
The original of the Papa's series, where tips fund your upgrades and customers absolutely notice an undercooked base.