Just For Fun
The websites in this section are just for fun. Have a laugh, have a think, stay a while and poke your nose around.
Watching thousands of TV clips from decades past, including full episodes of shows, commercials, music videos, and more. Each decade uses a UI resembling a TV from that time, and you can surf differen channels.
A pixel life and chemistry simulation game. Set up different chemicals, materials, weather phenomena, and living things in your little box and see how they interact.
This website has a fun little joke, but it would ruin the surprise if I told you.
Ride shotgun with someone driving around one of many cities around the world, listening to local radio.
The glorious return of StumbleUpon. Don't remember StumbleUpon? The idea is simple: tell the site what sort of topics you're interested in, hit the button to be taken to a random webpage related to one of those topics. It's a great way to find even more hidden gems around the internet.
See what it would take to spend all of Elon Musk's money.
Every time wikipedia is edited, this website plays a sound. The sounds change based on size and type of edit. It makes for very soothing background music, and you click on the visualizer to go to the articles that were edited!
"The Fish Doorbell" is a live feed of a canal in the Netherlands. The canal is blocked off, which can trap fish. If you see too many fish, ring the doorbell to let the local authorities know to open the gate for the fish!
Displays a photograph that contains the current time, though not always on a clock.
A cute little quiz. Answer whether you believe a color is blue or green, then see where your line between the two colors compares to other people.
Translate text through any number of languages on Google Translate automatically.
This site recreates old operating systems and other software in your browser.
Wander around a scanned 3d model of the actual Ginzan Onsen in Japan. A bit laggy and strange, but very cool nonetheless.
A roundup of extraordinarily rare words found in subtitles (and their meaning, so you can use them too).
This website lets you zoom around old 3d videogame levels. It's a ton of fun to poke your nose around places you weren't meant to see.
Designed by Lucia Gomez, you can change the color and physics of the lamp with sliders.
An in-browser city building game in the vein of the original SimCity.
A game where you listen to gravitational waves to try to locate black holes.
A page in iceberg format which links to numerous weirdnesses about computers. The intent is not to scare you (a lot iceberg memes are really just creepypasta in disguise) but to fill you in on just how weird computers really are.
A little daily game where you try to put events in chronological order. Complete against friends, etc. If you're the wordle type, but into history, this is pretty fun.
An alternate-history game where you change events across human history and get to see the consequences.
Learn SQL by solving mysteries as a 1980s detective.
Colorful dots move around the screen based on how you move your mouse.
A physics simulator that gives you full control over the construction of a virtual trebuchet and its load, then launch it to see if it works.
A vaporwave-themed daily fortune teller. Gets a little weird, in a fun way.
Fall down a corridor of live Bluesky posts.
An endless scroll of terrible headlines that aren't about anything in particular.
Cut your own snowflake out of paper and watch it float down in a snowstorm of literally millions of contributed snowflakes. Leave messages on your snowflakes and comment on others. Bit of a warning: there doesn't seem to be any moderation.
A collection of color hex codes that are - or are close enough to - words.