Floor 796 — https://floor796.com/

https://windows93.net/ - Some mad lad implemented a custom parody version of Windows 95 that has a bunch of working applications and emulators. Also, check out !internetisawesome@sh.itjust.works for a lot of similar sites.

https://www.nandgame.com/

Learn how a computer works by building your own from scratch.

https://www.gutenberg.org/

It's been around for half a century and nobody knows about it. It's like a world wonder, a modern Library of Alexandria.

https://www.thistothat.com/

To figure out what type of adhesive/glue you need to attach x material to y material

dimensions.com

It's the weirdest shit I've ever seen. Before I get into it, I want to point out that I've been using this site for years, since before LLMs were a thing, so this is definitely not generated by AI.

It's just like, generic outline drawings of things. Objects, people, places, everything.

So sometimes I like to draw, and I need a model to work from for the pose and the proportions, and this site has a ton of them. Child kicking a ball? Yes. Adult man sitting on a bench? Several options to choose from. Woman carrying a box? Three different poses.

Pointing, pushing, protesting, thinking, vacuuming, raising one's hand to summon a waiter in a restaurant, it's all there.

I'm sure there's some kind of industrial use for it, like for diagrams or blueprints or something, but then we get to the descriptions. Like on the page for people carrying boxes, it says:

People lift boxes either in their personal lives or at work. People lift boxes to move residences. Mailmen or delivery truck drivers lift boxes everyday as part of their job. Some jobs may require their applicants to be able to lift a certain weight of box. When lifting boxes, it is important to lift with your knees instead of your back to prevent back injury.

Then there's always three questions, which they provide answers to. For carrying, those questions are:

What is a carry on bag?

What is carrying capacity?

How much can a horse carry?

Why? Whom is that for?

Under the pictures of elderly people it asks things like "What are the best exercises for maintaining mobility in seniors?" and "How can seniors adapt their homes for safety and accessibility?"

Is this for dolphins? Did a dolphin learn to read English, and they want to understand human society?

I'm struggling to find the weirdest examples, because honestly it's the breadth as well as the depth. Someone clearly put a ton of work into this, and I love it, but I don't understand it.

if the moon were only one pixel

https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

gives a better idea of how ridiculously vast the solar system and outer space actually is--if you turn on "scroll at light speed" it feels slow at these distances

https://www.nooooooooooooooooooooooooo.com/

this is my favorite regeneration.org a bunch of issues our world faces with all sorts of different solutions

https://www.kingdomofloathing.com/

A free text-based RPG browser game with a unique sense of absurdist humor.

http.cat

www.webtender.com

It's still the same same as it was almost 30 years ago and is an example of both how websites used to look and also shows how much more functional things used to be when implemented well, inspite of modern aesthetic evolutions

Streaming radio from around the world: Radio Garden

Best language lessons short of full immersion: Language Transfer

http://www.easylife.org/fufme/

https://p2r3.github.io/convert/

convert anything to anything, make excel file into pdf, 3d print the bee movie. no more rules

http://192.186.0.168/

http://r.stardata.us/

mediaplate.au

I've been using it as my homepage. It allows you to search Google and other engines without AI summaries, it gives you your IP address and just enough weather info without being obtuse, it loads quickly, and has a timer, stopwatch, scratchpad and conversion table for imperial to metric ect.

Another Version of the Truth ARG by Nine Inch Nails

It's extremely fucking relevant right now.

https://wiby.me/surprise/

It takes you to a random web 1.0 site that has somehow survived all this time.

And it led me to this site, a public voice-mail:

https://afterthebeep.tel/#3EXp

omnicalculator.com

If they are missing one, I haven't needed it yet.

Ferry Halim made Orisinal, a website full of simple and relaxing Flash games that lives again now through various means, I think a combination of HTML5 conversion and Ruffle: https://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/

https://posthog.com/ Its best on desktop or in desktop mode Its basically a recreation of a desktop with icons in the browser. Its super cool to just navigate around in.

https://internet.nl/ that tests a bunch of security related things and gives your server a score. Great for checking a few more boxes.

localhost:8000

turnmeintoagirl.com is a greatwebsite for all those transfems that still dont know they are trans.

The venerable and unexplainable Superbad: https://www.superbad.com/

Ancient wiki-style writing site Everything, older than Wikipedia: https://everything2.com/

The "Earth Edition" of the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: https://h2g2.com/