A minute

Non-commercial web search indexing only pages carrying no ads or trackers at all. A very small and very different internet.

Sprint away from a large monkey along a crumbling temple path, dying at the same badly signposted corner every time.

Graded summaries of the terms you agreed to without reading, with the specific alarming clause quoted. Volunteer-run since 2012.

Converts an uploaded photograph into ASCII, HTML or coloured text art, with the character density under your control.

A personality test that assigns you one of forty-odd animals, with write-ups considerably sharper than the premise deserves.

Spawns browser windows that dance around the screen and refuse to sit still, harmless but genuinely infuriating.

One large red button and a clear instruction not to press it. It gets increasingly personal about the fact that you keep pressing it.

British satire in short bitter columns, mostly concerning the middle classes and the people who irritate them.

Bisect angles, find midpoints and judge parallels by eye, then get told in pixels precisely how wrong you were.

Good news redrawn as illustrations by a designer who got tired of doomscrolling and built the feed he wanted instead.

One cat looking at a monitor showing a cat looking at a monitor, several thousand cats deep and still accepting submissions.

Every possible page of text that could ever exist, already written, sitting at a findable address.

Scroll the length of an absurdly elongated shiba inu, with checkpoints and a leaderboard for the truly committed.

A student sold a million pixels of advertising at a dollar each in 2005. The mosaic is still up, and most of the links now go nowhere.

Ten thousand sheep drawn by anonymous online workers paid two cents each, displayed together as one enormous grid.

Australian satire in short sharp headlines, which is roughly the national attention span for domestic politics.

Scroll outwards from a human to the observable universe, with each step making the previous one look absurd.

Millions of uploaded Minecraft skins plus an editor, which is the closest thing that game has ever had to a fashion scene.

Type anything at all and watch it drift upward and dissolve. Nothing is stored, nothing is sent, nothing can be recovered.

Nearly a trillion saved web pages. Paste any address, pick a year, and see what was there — the single most important archive online.

Race from one Wikipedia article to another using only links, against a clock and other people online.

A painting that zooms into itself forever, assembled by a dozen artists so carefully that the seams never quite show.

Tap any key in rhythm and it plays the next chunk of Clair de Lune, so timing is the only skill actually required.

Guess the country from a treemap of what it exports, which turns out to be an oddly precise national fingerprint.

Bounces a sentence between English and Japanese until the two versions agree, which they rarely do politely.

Get from one country to another by naming every country in between, with the shortest workable route scoring best.

Drops you into a field recording from a forest somewhere on earth, tells you which forest, then offers you another.

Fly down a rotating tunnel of coloured obstacles quickly enough that your eyes take over the steering from your brain.

Races you against real people typing the same passage, which is the only known method of making a typing test tense.

Typing practice on real open-source code, complete with the brackets and semicolons that ruin everyone's average.

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

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

Upload a file or paste a URL and get verdicts back from seventy-odd antivirus engines at once, along with what the file talks to.

Daily infographics on markets, commodities and demographics, designed to be understood in a single glance.

A dictionary drawn as a spring-loaded graph, with related meanings pulling away from each word you type.

Swap letters around a waffle-shaped grid to fix six words at once, with only fifteen swaps and stars for every one you save.

Upscales artwork and photographs without the usual mush, using a network trained specifically on line work.

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

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.

Two portraits, one of them generated. Built by University of Washington researchers to show how badly people score at telling the difference.

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

Wikipedia articles served as a vertical swipe feed, which is either a public service or the end of civilisation.

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

Ten minutes out of somebody else's window somewhere in the world, filmed by them and left quietly running.

Answers computed rather than retrieved: integrals, unit conversions, orbital mechanics and the nutritional content of a Mars bar.

Six goes at one five-letter word, the same word for everybody, once a day. The puzzle that spawned an entire genre in three months.

Guess the country from its silhouette alone, with each miss handing you the distance and compass bearing to the real answer.