What's your favorite weird corner of the internet? (programming.dev)

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I love the weird one-off internet: those tiny little fan projects made by someone with a true passion and something in their mind that's probably hard to pronounce.

Any fun corners of the internet out there still beyond social media? Or do you build anything yourself?

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[-] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not something I've built, but I was reviewing my bookmarks the other day and I found this site that I don't even know how I found to begin with: http://geacron.com/home-en/

It's an interactive world history atlas, where you can set the year and see what territories/nations existed or were like in the past. I'm not sure how accurate the maps are, especially as you go back further in history, but it's still fun to get a rough idea of where different groups of people were.

[-] gareththegeek@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

I've always wanted to make something like this ever since I finished a game of civ 1 and saw the recap you get at the end of a game!

[-] Holdmydrpepper@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

This is a very interesting tool. You've peaked a new interest by sharing that. Thanks!

[-] aeternum 3 points 1 year ago

Piqued*

[-] Amiral_Poitou@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://everynoise.com/

A site compiling every existing music genres, map them, then create submaps for each genre. It's mesmerizing

[-] biothoth@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I was wondering what the axes were..

The calibration is fuzzy, but in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier.

Click anything to hear an example of what it sounds like.

Really cool.

[-] armchair_progamer@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

Not weird and not super obscure, but if you haven't already seen this blog: https://ciechanow.ski/. Each post explains some random concept, but with interactive animations which make it intuitive and interesting.

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