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One button, one random pointless website, no explanation offered or needed. The site that turned this whole genre into a genre.
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The Useless Web sits in Portals & Directories under Weird, and we have it filed as instant — good within five seconds of loading. It reads as weird, funny and chaotic.
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.
The original boredom portal, still sorting thousands of time-wasters into categories with no discernible editorial filter.
Curated stumble button that sends you somewhere good rather than somewhere random, with categories if you are feeling fussy.
The volunteer-edited web directory that outlived DMOZ, still organising the internet into a category tree by hand.
Neal Agarwal's collection of interactive toys and explainers, every one of them built far better than it needed to be.
Hand-curated index of several thousand active blogs, sorted by subject, for when you want writing rather than a feed.
Hand-listed index of useless websites, sorted into categories so you can choose your waste of time rather than roll for it.
Crowd-sourced feed of well-made and gloriously pointless websites, and the closest thing left to a modern stumble button.
One button, escalating nonsense, and no way onward except pressing it again. Works on a phone, which is the danger.