Live testing color palettes and fonts for web design. Made by a designer who's really great, she runs a YouTube channel and made the site for free use by anyone.
If you like to play chess, check out www.lichess.org
It's free and open source, and it's very easy to find a game there, no matter what level you play.
It doesn't display annoying ads.
A variety of neat activities and educational pages.
Gayhomophobe.com it counts the time since the last openly homophobic figure was caught in a gay sex scandal
I've actually seen this used in movies and TV shows.
http://wiby.me/ is a cool site. It's a search engine that only has web 1.0 and web 1.0-styled websites.
www.5minute.games
It's a list of all the good word games, minigames and puzzles on the internet, and you can customize it to shortlist your favorites and even add new links. I go there every day to link to all my favorites.
...oh, full disclosure: I built it. Though hopefully nobody minds, since there's no ads or monetization whatsoever.
Foldnfly.com - shows dozens of ways to fold paper airplanes.
www.thetruesize.com - Find the true size of one country compared to another.
Every music genre you can think of, and then some. I finally found out what the stuff I like is called.
There is a - pretty dead - community, but maybe some of you could revive it: [email protected]
Something that far too many managers and developers need to see, so they can better understand why their decisions and work completely sucks.
I might’ve came across it from a post here on Lemmy, but this website is great for music discovery. It lets you listen to music by decade and country via a neat map UI.
There is this really cool place called Lemmy, I'm sure many people here have heard of it but not anyone I ask in other places. It's like Reddit, it's a forum-esque place where people can exchange their thoughts. The people are a little biased on the extreme Marxist side of things, but overall it's pretty nice.
I needed Unicode symbols for a story I'm working on. (I want to use them as "magic runes" so I could type them into a document, but without using the standard "runes" that are typically used.)
Shape Catcher let me draw what I was looking for and then get a list of Unicode characters that matched that drawing. It's not exact so if there's no perfect Unicode match, it will give you ones that are close. This actually turned out to my benefit as I found shapes I hadn't considered but which worked nicely for my uses.
As the name suggests, you hang out with a chicken on a raft
https://www.pokealexintheeye.com/
It's not great by today's standards, but in the late 90's my friends and I found this to be the peak of internet entertainment.
I use it for background when I need to concentrate.
The only sad thing is it doesn't support https :(
The website for the Heaven's Gate suicide cult is still up, 27 years after they all killed themselves.
Photoshop in your browser for free: https://www.photopea.com/
If it doesn't work, you don't have working ipv6.
https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/
I still break out into Badger, badger, badger occasionally....
lemmy.world
Very entertaining.
Basically a model viewer/freecam for stages from various video games. Really neat to see the tricks various devs pull to conserve detail.
https://earth.nullschool.net/ realtime global wind, pressure, temp, etc.
I really liked this blog like 10+ years ago.
He's got a lot of funny stuff on there where he eats unusual food, talks about a fungus growing on his trees, and other things he has observed. He even has an interview with Adam Savage!
He is also the none pizza left beef pizza guy.
https://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html
These websites were made to test out if your installed web browser is compliant with the worldwide web standards. It’s pretty neat stuff
Move along...
Last.fm and tracking your music listening. I've seen a post here but no one I see irl seems to know about it
https://www.damninteresting.com/
Best place for long form history and science content with audio versions that is criminally underrated.
This website used to be pretty good/interesting about 15 years ago. It slowly lost it's appeal for me, however, due to various reasons. It was a closely guarded secret for quite a long time for me too.
MetaFilter! It's an old-school text-only community blog that's been around since 1999. I love the variety and depth of posts on the front page, and the AskMetaFilter Q+A section is super useful.
OG movie script/screenplay database.
Dudes been running this place since 95, which is doubly impressive that he never got popped for copyright shit. There was a pretty crazy stretch where he was releasing scripts before they were even produced. Like I got to read the actual screenplays for flicks like Intolerable Cruelty, Lost Highway (movie makes more sense as a screenplay, btw) and even Beavis and Butthead Do America before they even hit the theaters.
The timecube website was the peak of the internet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube
https://web.archive.org/web/20160112193916/http://timecube.com/
Edit:
Omg I found an interview with Gene!
Very niche, but if you ever need to decode a simple oldschool encrypted/encoded text (caesar cipher, reverse alphabet, substitution cipher, morse code etc) for an AR game or whatever, Canonn Decryptor is amazing, being able to decode most cryptograms virtually automatically.
Spearfish Lake Tales by Wes Boyd. Really nice books written by someone who had a lifelong experience of writing. Start at the bottom (with the first story), and work upwards. This guy definitely died to early.
Not something I visit often nowadays, but I still peruse Gamewinners via the Archive for cheat codes on PS2 era and older games. Gamefaqs has the faqs and walkthroughs, but gamewinners had the cheats. Kinda sad that the best equivalent to it nowadays is youtube videos showing exploits of games.
https://jmp.chat - cell phone number without the need for ID verification.
epguides.com - episode lists for a lot of shows - dramas, sitcoms, science fiction, etc.
australiantelevision.net - episode lists and guides for a bunch of Australian TV series as well.
bruh.news - ai generated news headlines, pretty silly
Cool place to ask and/or answer questions, although I haven't been there in a long time.
Let's you sort prepaid phone plans in the US. You can even sort by things like which carrier the mvno runs on or if it's unlimited slow data after your allocation.
It's wonderful!
All hail!
It has many options inside, shows you kinda oldschool sites.
https://gemini.circumlunar.space
The Gemini protocol is pretty cool, if you liked the general feel of the internet in the BBS days. Mental Outlaw did a video on it a while back if you're curious. After watching that video, I bodged together a fully compliant Gemini browser in about 2 hours and spent the rest of the day hacking on it and browsing the "slow net"
https://fs.blog gives me a good tips on how to learn things
GPL interactive flash animations.
This was fairly cutting edge around 98 or 2002 when I first saw it. Really clean.
Not sure how any of the levitated Flash content can be shown now, but it appears that the creator Jared Tarbell is creating new works at infinite.center under MIT licence.
These look to be some of the best digital artworks available today.
Spam.com. surprisingly entertaining!
I still use wikimapia.org
(It's not associated with Wikipedia.)
For French speaking ppl : https://estcequejeanmarielepenestmort.info/
It is a website that tell you if Jean-Marie Lepen, far right islamophobic racist guy that created the far right party that is now going to win the election, is dead or not.
https://www.drbukk.com/mobile-homes/
Straight from the late 90s...
