Weird Web
Things to Do Instead of Scrolling
Not a digital detox. Swaps that give you the same thing scrolling gives you — novelty, low effort, something to look at — but that actually end.
A magazine for the curious corners of the internet
Weird websites, useless gadgets, viral quizzes
Read the stories, then play the things. Quizzes that read you, calculators that diagnose you, generators for the group chat, plus the weird web your algorithm forgot.
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Weird Web
Things to Do Online With Friends
Games and sites that work over a shared link — no installs, no accounts, no one person having…
Weird Web
Things to Do on Your Phone When You’re Bored
Websites that actually work on a touchscreen. The ones that need a mouse are listed too, so you…
Weird Web
Things to Do When You’re Bored at Night
Calm websites for 1am. Nothing that autoplays, nothing with an infinite feed, nothing that will still have you…
Play something
Things you do, not just read
90-second personality tests. Screenshot the result, send it to the group chat.
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Quiz
The Internet Personality Type Quiz (16 Types)
The big one. Five questions, sixteen possibilities, one truth.
Quiz
How Cursed Is Your Browsing History?
A bestiary of your search bar.
Quiz
How Much Of A Lurker Are You?
Tier your invisibility.
Quiz
Is Your Phone Trying To Kill You? Test.
A formal threat assessment.
Quiz
Hyperpop or Sleep Token?
A 5-question vibe scan disguised as a music quiz.
Quiz
What is Your Wikipedia Rabbit Hole Energy?
From "list of unusual deaths" to "the schism of 1378" in 4 questions.
Move the sliders, get a number, confront the truth.
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Calculator
Cringe Tolerance Calculator
How much cringe can you withstand per day.
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Calculator
Internet Old Test
Carbon-date yourself by your first online memory.
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Calculator
Influencer Persona Coherence Score
Do you actually have a brand or are you posting vibes.
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Calculator
Gamer Sleep Schedule Calculator
You will get sleep. We compute when.
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Calculator
Streaming Decision Paralysis Score
For evenings spent picking, not watching.
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Calculator
Attention Span Calculator
What is your attention span actually, in seconds.
Type a topic, roll, copy, share. Repeat until you are late for something.
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Generator
Wikipedia Rabbit Hole Generator
Open the tab. Close it in 4 hours.
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Generator
Hyperpop Lyric Generator
A line for the song you will never make.
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Generator
Viral Title Generator
For your next 10-minute video essay.
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Generator
Iceberg Chart Generator
Make any topic feel like forbidden knowledge.
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Generator
Fake Brand Generator
Imagine the brand. We named it for you.
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Generator
Doomscroll Replacement Generator
Pick a real thing instead.
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Ranked by how often people actually opened and finished them.
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AI & Tech
AI tools, gadgets and technology explained without the hype — what actually works, what is a demo, and what is…
AI & Tech
What “Open Source AI” Actually Means
The phrase is used for three quite different things. Knowing which one you are looking at changes what you can rely on.
AI & Tech
The Quiet Technology That Changed How You Use the Internet
Not the launches that got keynotes. The unglamorous changes underneath that reshaped browsing without anyone announcing them.
AI & Tech
How to Tell If an AI Tool Is Actually Useful or Just a Good Demo
Most AI tools look incredible for about four minutes. Here is the short checklist worth running before one…
Internet Culture
Memes, trends, online behaviour and the strange social rules of being on the internet. Why everyone is suddenly saying that,…
Internet Culture
Short Online Quizzes That Aren’t a Waste of Time
Thirty personality quizzes about how you actually behave online. Most take under two minutes, every result has its own link, and none of them ask for your email.
Internet Culture
Why Every Website Started Looking the Same
Big heading, three columns of icons, a gradient, a rounded button. There are real reasons the web converged…
Internet Culture
What People Actually Mean When They Say Brainrot
It started as an insult, became a genre, then got picked as a dictionary word of the year.…
Internet Culture
Why You Have 100 Browser Tabs Open
Tab hoarding is not a discipline problem. It is what happens when a browser tab quietly becomes a…
Weird Web
The internet nobody optimised. Strange websites, useless tools, abandoned corners and things that exist for no reason at all.
Weird Web
Things to Do Online With Friends
Games and sites that work over a shared link — no installs, no accounts, no one person having to buy anything. For group chats and calls.
Weird Web
Things to Do on Your Phone When You’re Bored
Websites that actually work on a touchscreen. The ones that need a mouse are listed too, so you…
Weird Web
Things to Do When You’re Bored at Night
Calm websites for 1am. Nothing that autoplays, nothing with an infinite feed, nothing that will still have you…
Weird Web
Things to Do When You’re Bored at Work
Quiet websites that load fast, need no sound, and close in one keystroke. For the ten minutes between…
Weird Web
Websites to Visit When You’re Bored
A sorted list of genuinely good places to go when you have ten minutes and no plan —…
Set aside an hour
All rabbit holes →
Down the rabbit hole
Strange corners, useless marvels and sites that should not still be online. They are.
Fun Site
Window Swap
Look out of a stranger's window for ten minutes.
Rabbit Hole
Yellowstone Webcam People
Set aside an hour.
Fun Site
Neal.fun
The patron saint of "I'm bored, internet me".
Fun Site
Internet Artifacts
Scroll the entire history of the internet, one weird artifact at a time.
Fun Site
Patatap
A keyboard. Synesthesia. You will lose 20 minutes.
Fun Site
The Pudding
Data essays so good they feel like cinema.
The archive
All databases →
Explore the databases
Filterable collections of weird websites, lost media, browser games and internet nostalgia.
Database
Lost Media Database
Films, ads, pilots and tapes that vanished from the internet.
Database
Vintage Web Aesthetics
Web 1.0 design references — guestbooks, gradients, "under construction".
Database
Online Time Wasters Ranked
A leaderboard of the most reliably hour-eating sites on the web.
Database
Open-Source Toys
GitHub repos you can run in a browser tab.
Database
AI Art Style Reference
A growing dictionary of AI image styles, with prompt cues.
Database
Discord Communities Worth Joining
Servers where the conversation is actually good.
Keep exploring
Everything on the site, shuffled. Keep scrolling and we will keep finding things.
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Generator
Reddit Post Generator
For your next anonymous confession.
Quiz
Pick A Meme And We Tell You Your Trauma
A diagnostic with a 92% disturbing-accuracy rate.
Calculator
Notification Anxiety Score
Buzzing is bad for you, statistically.
Quiz
How Much Of A Lurker Are You?
Tier your invisibility.
Quiz
Which Reddit Community Matches You?
Find your tribe, or learn which tribe you should be avoiding.
Database
Cursed Apps Database
Apps so weird they could only exist in the App Store.
Database
Discord Communities Worth Joining
Servers where the conversation is actually good.
Trending
The “I Was Always Yapping” Phase
Long video essays are back. We will all be 12 hours behind.
Finding more…