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Collection of period-correct cursor trails — rainbows, bubbles, snowflakes, ghosts — demoed live so you can wave the mouse about.
- <1 min
- Desktop
The meme feed that reposts everything eventually, sorted into channels so you can choose your particular poison.
- 1 hr+
Twenty-eight escalating trolley dilemmas that end somewhere very silly, each showing the percentage of people who agreed with you.
- 10 min
Janelle Shane feeds neural networks recipes, paint names and knitting patterns, then reports the wreckage with real affection.
- 1 hr+
AltF Pulse
AltFA paused editorial preview that explains the sourcing and publishing controls required before stories return.
- 10 min
Genuine industrial surplus sold with the best product copy on the internet: lab glassware, small motors, and 400 unexplained springs.
- 10 min
Seattle's novelty institution: rubber chickens, emergency moustaches and an unreasonable number of items shaped like tinned meat.
- 10 min
Decades of ASCII drawings sorted by subject, from cats to warships, every one of them ready to copy and paste.
- 1 hr+
- Desktop
Thousands of educational films saved from the skip — driver safety, dating advice, duck and cover — digitised by one collector.
- 10 min
- Sound on
Two decades of other people's terrible family portraits, submitted willingly and captioned by the people in them.
- 10 min
Lorem ipsum made entirely of cured meats, for mock-ups where nobody was going to read the filler text anyway.
- <1 min
One-button basketball in which the players, the ball and the court are all changed at random between points, deliberately.
- 2 min
Community for adding glitter, sparkles and animated hearts to photographs, still busily active long after the trend died.
- 10 min
Drag four blobs up and down and they sing genuine four-part harmony, trained on real opera singers, always in key.
- <1 min
- Sound on
The cat plays whatever key you press, on bongos, a keyboard or a full drum kit. Peak internet, and still maintained.
- <1 min
- Sound on
Physics sumo where everybody is a circle, the only verb is shove, and the arena keeps getting smaller until someone falls off.
- <1 min
- Desktop
Endless listicles of art, design mishaps and comment-section drama, engineered to eat a lunch break whole.
- 1 hr+
The original boredom portal, still sorting thousands of time-wasters into categories with no discernible editorial filter.
People staple bread to trees and photograph it. There is no deeper explanation available and no sign of it stopping.
- 2 min
The write-draw-write chain game that predates the current crop, still running, still free and still producing pure nonsense.
- 10 min
Chuck banknotes into an open grave with the mouse, accompanied by an unreasonably committed soundtrack.
- <1 min
- Sound on
- Desktop
Plays the notification sounds of Slack, email and Teams on a loop so it sounds like somebody urgently needs you.
- <1 min
- Sound on
Cut-out cats rain down and bounce off the bottom of the screen, and you can grab one and fling it at the others.
- <1 min
- Desktop
A free endpoint that returns one cat fact per request, which is how every cat-facts prank bot ever built gets built.
- 2 min
Twenty years of forensic argument about how tall film stars really are, with photographic evidence and footwear analysis.
A chihuahua rotating to a dance track, which was apparently a complete website idea in 2013 and somehow still is.
- <1 min
- Sound on
The offline dinosaur from Chrome's error page, playable while you still have a perfectly good connection.
- <1 min
Parody religion with its own prophet, apocalypse date and merchandise, committed to the bit long enough that you stop being sure.
- 10 min
Decades of adverts preserved exactly as broadcast, including the jingles you will regret having remembered.
- 10 min
- Sound on
Viral-content parody taken well past the point of sense, including quizzes that insult you for finishing them.
- 10 min
Sixty seconds to forge the Mona Lisa with a mouse, then a pixel-by-pixel score telling you exactly how badly it went.
- 2 min
- Desktop
NASA ephemeris data, brutal one-line notifications and a design language everyone copied. Astrology delivered entirely deadpan.
Click the cookie, buy grandmas, buy portals, accidentally summon something. The game that turned incrementals into a genre.
- 1 hr+
Chrome, flames and bevelled gradients — the 2003 logo generator, still online and still producing exactly that.
- 2 min
- Desktop
One button that adds unicorns and rainbows to any web page, solving a problem that has never once been reported.
- <1 min
Upload any file and receive a genuinely corrupted version back. Built for missing deadlines, used mostly for art.
- <1 min
The same premise with different flavours of damage — choose the format and how thoroughly you want it ruined.
- <1 min
Frogger with better manners: hop a chicken across roads, rivers and railway lines until the inevitable lorry.
- 2 min
Sugar-coated filler text for wireframes, with sliders for exactly how sweet and how long the nonsense should be.
- <1 min
Crude four-panel strips with a mean streak, running since 2005 and still finding fresh ways to end badly.
The animator who taught the internet to be afraid of cows, with every looping nightmare he has made collected in one place.
- 10 min
- Sound on
Screenshots of manipulative interfaces caught in the wild, named and dissected. Grimly entertaining reading.
- 10 min
German satirical news delivered with a completely straight face, plus a weekly video bulletin, running since 2008.
- 10 min
Alarming research site about a chemical found in tumours, acid rain and every reservoir on earth. The chemical is water.
- 2 min
The same six panels of clip-art dinosaurs every day since 2003, with entirely different words in them each time.
Mine dogecoin with a shiba inu until you can afford to buy the moon. The year 2014, preserved in fully playable form.
- 10 min
Single-player browser RPG from the AdventureQuest studio, with a long story campaign and jokes aimed squarely at 2007.
- 1 hr+
- Desktop
Telephone played with drawings: describe a picture, draw a description, and watch the chain derail over twelve steps.
- 10 min
How we picked these
Every entry in Detour is hand-sorted rather than scraped: filed under one category, given one to three moods, and placed in a time band for how quickly it pays off. The practical facts — cost, sign-up, sound, device and whether it is safe at a desk — are recorded per site and shown on every card, so you can rule things out before you click.
Funny websites: questions
How many sites are in funny websites?
249 sites, each hand-sorted by category, mood and how long it takes to pay off. 7 of them are AltF originals that run right here.
Which of these sites are free with no sign-up?
240 of the 249 are free and need no account. 1 is paid or freemium, and the card says so.
Do these sites work on a phone, and are they safe for work?
197 of 249 work on a phone; the rest are desktop only. 244 are safe for work and 219 work with the sound off.