The old internet: 150 sites

Fly out through our stellar neighbourhood, one star at a time

Everything about the curve behind every vector graphic

Build your own weather out of ten ambient sliders

One long essay a day, on the questions without answers

Browse by genre, mood, decade or who played on it

Fan-made soundscapes of fictional rooms you can sit in

Read tomorrow's physics papers before they're published

Which asteroids would pay for the trip out to reach them

One space image a day, explained by a working astronomer

A guidebook to the places no guidebook mentions

Filter by genre, format and location, then simply listen

The etymology and history of first names, worldwide

Maths taught as intuition first, notation afterwards

Every natural history book, scanned by the world's museums

Sixteen strange brushes and almost no control

Watch one nest from first egg to first flight

Crude stick figures, consistently indefensible punchlines

A hundred thousand old maps, zoomable to the street

A graphing calculator that keeps up with your typing

Same six panels every time, different conversation

A catalogue of very nearly every record ever pressed

A 1996 US campaign website, preserved exactly as it was

Flood the whole board with one colour in thirty moves

Thousands of public cameras, pointed at everywhere at once

A pre-Wikipedia wiki where the writing is the point

Hundreds of live animal cams, from bear falls to puppy rooms

Full-screen system update screens that never finish

Build a circuit and watch the electrons move through it

Every aircraft in the air, updating as they move

Nathan Yau on what the numbers are doing to us

Type a headline, get a passable newspaper clipping

Legally free music, curated rather than simply dumped

Answer a question, fund ten grains of rice

Classify a galaxy nobody has ever properly looked at

Hans Rosling's bubble chart, still worth an hour

Jon Arbuckle, alone, talking to nobody at all