A directory of blogs and tools that load in under one megabyte, kept as a quiet protest against bloated pages. Every link opens almost instantly.
Opens in a new tab. We do not control this site and it may have changed since we catalogued it.
1MB Club sits in Portals & Directories under Weird, filed as coffee break.
About this category: The other directories, random buttons and curated indexes. We are one of these; it would be dishonest to pretend the others are not worth your time.
Yes. 1MB Club is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use 1MB Club without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file 1MB Club as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
A ranked list of websites that weigh less than half a megabyte. A tour of the fast, lightweight personal web, sorted from tiniest to merely small.
A calm, ad-free space where artists and researchers gather links, images and notes into shared channels. Follow one thread and an hour disappears.
The index of GitHub's 'awesome' lists: curated links on almost any subject, from fonts and podcasts to self-hosting, all maintained in the open.
The front page of Bear, a no-frills blogging platform: a feed of trending and recent posts that are short, personal and free of ads.
Seventy statements, four political axes and an ideology label at the end. The open-source template for a hundred imitators.
Windows 98 rebuilt in JavaScript, right down to the window chrome and the sound the error dialogs make.
Starts as one button beside a dying fire and quietly becomes something much larger. Best played without reading anything about it first.
Hand-picked, highly rated films that were never blockbusters, filterable by mood and by where you can currently stream them.
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