Coffee break

The outlet that breaks the story first and considers taste afterwards, with a documented record of being right.

Scanned cereal boxes going back decades, with full career histories for the mascots, maintained purely for its own sake.

The onion router straight from the people who maintain it — the browser download plus a plain-English account of how the relays work.

Match-three fused with tower defence, so every swap you make is also the wave you are currently surviving.

Tracks what you have watched across every service and tells you which episode is next in the series you abandoned in March.

Bridge, euchre, hearts and spades against bots or friends, on a table that behaves the way a real one does.

Raw model output laid out for people who want to read the charts themselves, and the page hurricane watchers keep open all August.

Write a Turing machine in a few lines and watch the tape head shuffle back and forth carrying it out.

The tool behind half the interactive fiction of the past decade, running in the browser and learnable in about twenty minutes.

Practise typing by working through actual novels, so the warm-up leaves you a few pages of Dostoevsky instead of nonsense.

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

Structured typing lessons with a hand diagram that shows precisely which finger you have been cheating with all along.

Old-school pattern library that explains the problem each interface pattern solves before it shows you examples.

The British Library's record of the UK web, collected under legal deposit — including sites their owners deleted years ago.

A roguelike you escape by editing the JavaScript that builds each level, which is considerably more forgiving than it sounds.

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

An x86 emulator in JavaScript that will boot Linux, FreeBSD or Windows 98 in a tab. Genuinely should not be possible.

The browser build of the auto-shooter that ate 2022: you only move, everything else fires itself, and the screen fills with skeletons.

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

Hero-shooter pacing in a browser tab, with abilities, a ranked ladder and matches short enough to fit a coffee break.

Precision stickman platforming with spikes, saw blades and checkpoints positioned by somebody who enjoys watching people suffer.

Two decades of hand-picked short films, still the most reliable place online to find something beautiful in nine minutes.

Infinite squared paper for sketching layouts and floor plans, with snapping and nothing else getting in the way.

City walking videos, driving tours and a guess-the-city game built on top of them, sorted by country for when you cannot travel.

Which of the world's volcanoes are erupting today, each with webcams, seismic charts and a running diary of what the mountain has been doing.

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

Low-poly military shooter with tanks, helicopters and a battle royale mode, all somehow inside a browser tab.

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.

Climate averages for any city as gorgeous year-round charts: sunshine hours, muggy days, wind, and precisely when the good weather ends.

Billions of generated puzzles in a layout untouched since 2005, which is precisely why it still loads before you finish blinking.

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

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

The free library of source texts — treaties, speeches and out-of-copyright novels, transcribed and proofread by hand.

Drag Wikipedia cards onto a timeline in the right order. Three lives, and you will lose one to the invention of the fork.

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.

A working Windows XP desktop in a tab, with Minesweeper, Paint and the startup sound, for pure muscle memory.

Thousands of interactive maths and science notebooks contributed over two decades, each one a single slider-driven idea.

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

Crazy golf on a floating landscape that unfolds into a new course between shots. Worth playing for the transitions alone.

Free indicators for every country going back decades, with charts, maps and bulk downloads on each series.

Plain map and flag quizzes covering every continent, aimed at classrooms and quietly excellent for adults as well.

Over a hundred solitaire variants with proper undo, statistics and card backs from 2007. Still the most complete one going.

Look out of a stranger's window somewhere else in the world for as long as you like, then swap to another one.

The free, open-source answer to GeoGuessr, with unlimited rounds, a daily challenge and multiplayer that costs nothing.

A browser planetarium stitched from real survey data, letting you pan the whole sky in visible light, infrared or radio.