Sunday, 20 September 2026
Every event on Wikipedia plotted as a dot across fourteen billion years, filterable down to one category at a time.
Filed under History & Time · Beautiful, Mesmerising, Brainy
India's monuments, crafts and regional history laid out as something you explore rather than something you revise.
A history map with a timeline slider, layered with rulers, religions, battles and linked encyclopedia articles.
Scanned American newspapers from 1770 to 1963, full-text searchable, which is a dangerous thing to discover on a weeknight.
Over a hundred thousand high-resolution scanned maps, georeferenced and free to zoom into more or less indefinitely.
Ten minutes out of somebody else's window somewhere in the world, filmed by them and left quietly running.
Free illustrated repair manuals for phones, laptops, cars and appliances, plus teardowns that name and shame every glued-in battery.
Full-resolution images from the James Webb telescope, with the explanations of what you are actually looking at.
Age pyramids for any country from 1950 to 2100, which settles most demographic arguments in a single shape.
Click the cookie, buy grandmas, buy portals, accidentally summon something. The game that turned incrementals into a genre.
Hex-based territory war where every unit costs upkeep, so overextending will kill you considerably faster than the enemy does.
Looks like a plain platformer until the floor vanishes, the ceiling drops and the exit walks away. Trolling you is the actual mechanic.
The pick is derived from the date itself, so everybody sees the same site on the same day and yesterday's is always recoverable.