Internet Culture
The Rise and Fall of the Internet Forum
For fifteen years the forum was how the internet organised itself. Then it was replaced by things that are worse at almost everything it was good at.
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
20 Websites to Send to a Friend Right Now
Each one with the reason to send it and the person to send it to. Sorted by what…
AI & Tech
AI Slop: How to Spot It
Generated filler is now a large share of what you see online. The tells are structural rather than…
Rabbit Holes
Wikipedia’s Strangest Articles
Wikipedia maintains an official index of its own weirdest pages. It is one of the best things on…
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Things you do, not just read
90-second personality tests. Screenshot the result, send it to the group chat.
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The Internet Personality Type Quiz (16 Types)
The big one. Five questions, sixteen possibilities, one truth.
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Quiz
Hyperpop or Sleep Token?
A 5-question vibe scan disguised as a music quiz.
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Quiz
Is Your Phone Trying To Kill You? Test.
A formal threat assessment.
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
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
Streaming Decision Paralysis Score
For evenings spent picking, not watching.
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Calculator
Gamer Sleep Schedule Calculator
You will get sleep. We compute when.
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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
Doomscroll Replacement Generator
Pick a real thing instead.
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Generator
AI Astrology Reading Generator
The horoscope your phone deserves.
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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
AI Slop: How to Spot It
Generated filler is now a large share of what you see online. The tells are structural rather than stylistic, and once you know them you cannot unsee them.
AI & Tech
Hidden Browser Features You Are Not Using
You spend hours a day in this thing. It has a reading mode, a tab search, per-site settings…
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…
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
What Happens to a Website When Its Owner Dies?
Domains expire, hosting lapses, and a site can vanish within a year of nobody paying the bill. What actually happens, and what you can set up first.
Internet Culture
What Is the Oldest Website Still Online?
There is a clear answer to the first website ever made — and a much more interesting argument…
Internet Culture
GeoCities: What Was Actually On It
Millions of handmade pages, organised into neighbourhoods, deleted in one afternoon in 2009. What GeoCities actually contained, and…
Internet Culture
Where to Find the Old Web
The 1990s and 2000s internet is not entirely gone. Some of it was archived, some of it is…
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…
Weird Web
The internet nobody optimised. Strange websites, useless tools, abandoned corners and things that exist for no reason at all.
Weird Web
20 Websites to Send to a Friend Right Now
Each one with the reason to send it and the person to send it to. Sorted by what you want the reply to be.
Weird Web
Creepy Websites That Are Actually Safe
Unsettling without being nasty. No jump scares, no gore, no malware — just websites that get under your…
Weird Web
How to Find Weird Websites Yourself
Stop waiting for someone to hand you a list. A repeatable method for finding the strange, small and…
Weird Web
Websites That Do Exactly One Thing
The single-serving site: one page, one idea, no navigation, no account, no business model. A small and very…
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,…
Set aside an hour
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Down the rabbit hole
Strange corners, useless marvels and sites that should not still be online. They are.
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The Useless Web
A button. A surprise. The internet at its most internet.
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Neal.fun
The patron saint of "I'm bored, internet me".
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Liminal Spaces Database
Set aside an hour.
Fun Site
The Pudding
Data essays so good they feel like cinema.
Rabbit Hole
Yellowstone Webcam People
Set aside an hour.
Fun Site
Pointer Pointer
A photo of someone pointing at your cursor.
The archive
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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.
Quiz
Are You Brainrotted? The Test.
The honest test. Yes you. We are looking at you.
Quiz
What Type of Doomscroller Are You?
For everyone whose thumb has its own personality.
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Generator
Random Challenge Generator
A dare for your group chat.
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“Brainrot” Is Now A Marketing Category
Brands are running ads about brainrot. Yes really.
Quiz
How Chronically Online Are You?
A 90-second diagnosis of how much the algorithm owns you.
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Sped-Up Audio Killed The Original Version
The 1.4x speed era of music streaming.
Generator
Compliment Generator
Send something nice. We will write it.
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Generator
AI Fortune Cookie Generator
A small ominous truth for your wallet.
Finding more…