What's a cool website you’ve visited that no one seems to know of?
What's a cool website you’ve visited that no one seems to know of?
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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.
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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.
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It always makes me sad that chess.com was the site that blew up. I always had to convince my friends to use lichess when I played back in school.
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Japanese chess is excellent too. Http://lishogi.org
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All of the games ever played on lichess along with puzzles, evaluations etc are also open and free to download at database.lichess.org
The site's founder and lead developer Thibault also often streams the development of the site on his Twitch channel!
I'm honestly suprised sometimes at how free, open and transparent this site is, truly an inspiration for anyone looking to build an ethical platform.
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A variety of neat activities and educational pages.
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My goodness. I love this website's activities and educational pages. I really should be studying right now, but here are a few of my favorites so far.
https://neal.fun/lets-settle-this/
https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/
https://neal.fun/life-checklist/
Plenty more to check out!
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That space elevator was really engaging and interesting!!
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The only limitation is yourself
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"You can do anything at Zombocom"
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That is correct.
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zoo.replicate.dev - a bunch of free ai image generation models
snowfl - a search engine for torrents
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Ian's Shoelace Site:
Different ways to lace your shoes.The Phrontistery:
Glossaries of, e.g., obscure words, lost words, etc.-
Anytime I get new shoes I go to Ian's Shoelace Site to pick out a new lacing pattern.
And Ian's Secure Knot is a godsend for winter boots that usually have a bit thicker laces which come undone with a regular knot. Learning that knot is great because it's as strong as double knotting without needing to pick apart the knot afterwards.
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The what???
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"We" did weird things long ago. We still do, but we used to, too.
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Gayhomophobe.com it counts the time since the last openly homophobic figure was caught in a gay sex scandal
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Unfortunately the list seems to have become unmaintained.
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Yeah. I can remember seeing a homophobic politician being caught at an orgy in the news just a few months ago.
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http://wiby.me/ is a cool site. It's a search engine that only has web 1.0 and web 1.0-styled websites.
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Oh my, this is beautiful. Brings me back to the glory days of the Internet -- when sites were quick to load, text was king, and you didn't feel your privacy was violated at every turn.
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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.
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This is really great! Thank you for this!
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You're welcome. Note the settings button, which gives some nice customization options. Feel free to share it with folks who might also enjoy it. :-)
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Bookmarked this! Going to come in handy over the holidays especially. Thank you!!
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I've actually seen this used in movies and TV shows.
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It's better than just showing jquery source code or html
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Foldnfly.com - shows dozens of ways to fold paper airplanes.
www.thetruesize.com - Find the true size of one country compared to another.
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FYI the bottom link is broken (but it's easy enough to get there, lol)
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Every music genre you can think of, and then some. I finally found out what the stuff I like is called.
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This is how I found Die Partei, a great obscure German electronica artist
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This is unbelievable, thanks for sharing!
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The sample for "kids dance party" wasn't something I ever thought I'd hear again.
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There is a - pretty dead - community, but maybe some of you could revive it: !coolwebsites@lemmy.ca
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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.
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Something that far too many managers and developers need to see, so they can better understand why their decisions and work completely sucks.
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Send to Bottom
Help Bar Descends at the most pain inducing rate possible
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Every step of the way has some new frustrating way to confound the user. I was laughing/crying halfway through the process because of how stupidly unfriendly the design was. Just brilliant. Whoever did this is an evil supergenius and/or heavily into BDSM.
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Sent it to my partner who wants to get into Ux design, lol
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I love and hate this, it really managed to raise my blood pressure.
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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.
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Is this like the digital equivalent of a million monkeys with a million typewriters?
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Yeah sorta. It's apparently an algorithm that can produce every possible page of text, given a number. So it contains a staggering amount of gibberish, plus every page of every book that's ever been written, and many wildly incorrect, many vaguely correct and one exactly accurate description of the circumstances of your death.
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I thought humanity was the "million monkeys with a million typewriters"
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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.
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As the name suggests, you hang out with a chicken on a raft
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10/10 would visit again.
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I use it for background when I need to concentrate.
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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.
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This is WONDERFUL by today’s standards.
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The website for the Heaven's Gate suicide cult is still up, 27 years after they all killed themselves.
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The only sad thing is it doesn't support https :(
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Does it need to?
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Yes. What if someone MITMs me and chops off the poor horse's leg?
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If you get to the bottom, there's a beach ball. Jaaaaames Baxter!
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Photoshop in your browser for free: https://www.photopea.com/
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Another website with a similar goal: https://jspaint.app
It's a M$ Paint clone and I use it because I don't have Windows.
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If by that you mean "I use Linux but can't stand GIMP" then Pinta is pretty good as a simple photo editor. More advanced than Paint but not as unfriendly as GIMP. If you're familiar with Paint.NET on Windows then you'll feel right at home.
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If it doesn't work, you don't have working ipv6.
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Very similar to a puzzle from a collection that I play on Android:
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/net.html
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lemmy.world
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No fucking way this is still around lmfaooo I remember being around 12 years old when my buddy first showed me this.
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This is my favourite website ever. Don't forget to visit the archive. The quality of this authors posts is astronomical. The way they explain extremely complex Systems in a simple and visual manner is absolutely brilliant.
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I think the first post I found was the clock one and it's still my favourite
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https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/
I still break out into Badger, badger, badger occasionally....
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I love Apocamon. Too bad it never got completed.
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Plenty of people know about albionblacksheep.com It was a go-to website back in the early 2000's.
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There are a lot of people here who weren't born back in the early 2000s
And in that same vein, I would like to nominate zombo.com
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I used to have this as a live wallpaper. Drained my battery like crazy.
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Man, that's like saying "when I'm driving my car, whenever I pull up to a traffic light I drop it into neural and floor the throttle".
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Very entertaining.
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If you like this, you might enjoy 5minute.games, a list of lots of little games like this. Nonograms is one of the sites listed, and I keep it on my shortlist. Though I don't have patience for more than a 15x15 B/W puzzle.
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Basically a model viewer/freecam for stages from various video games. Really neat to see the tricks various devs pull to conserve detail.
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Cool!
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...can you not make me feel like a fossil
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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.
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Is it Steve! Don't eat it?
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Yes, Steve, Don't Eat It! I think the first thing that I saw on his site was the FedEx logo thing, but Steve, Don't Eat It was the thing that kept me on the site.
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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
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Ironically they no longer work properly.
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https://earth.nullschool.net/ realtime global wind, pressure, temp, etc.
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Allow me to introduce you to windy.com.
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https://www.damninteresting.com/
Best place for long form history and science content with audio versions that is criminally underrated.
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Last.fm and tracking your music listening. I've seen a post here but no one I see irl seems to know about it
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Scrobling used to be huge back in the day of mp3s and last.fm practically invented it.There are also alternative APIs implementing the same idea. Unfortunately for them they never caught up on the age of streaming.
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Yes!! I love it for tracking all my scrobbles.
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Move along...
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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.
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Metafilter has some good conversations and unique content for threads.
From the same era, and with similar interesting levels of content was kuro5hin.org (aka. corrosion , Now offine) and everything2.com (a massively interlinked set of nodes created before wikipedia).
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What's the difference between this and any other link aggregator, like the one we're on now?
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It's an organic community, small enough and long-lasting enough that it's easier to get to know people as people instead of as names on a screen you'll see once and likely never again. The admin team is similarly small and easy to talk to, not an algorithm or a faceless corporate enforcer. The mods are paid professionals funded largely by community donations. The site is also in the process of transitioning to a non-profit management, so less risk of selling out or enshittifying itself. I like the posting and commenting culture -- text-heavy, minimalist style, and a wide variety of topics often deeply researched and explored in lengthy posts by people passionate about the topic, rather than 24/7 outrage-bait headlines and viral videos. And the subsites are really fun -- I mentioned AskMeFi, but there's also a place to share one's music, personal projects, discuss media, organize meetups, etc. I also appreciate how the mods and guidelines take a strong stance against bigotry and microaggressions -- hate speech and spam are virtually unheard of. Very refreshing when the bigger platforms seem intent on pursuing growth at all costs and minimizing administrative overhead. Overall, a cozy, human-scale community that seems more and more like a throwback that we should be moving back to.
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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/
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Omg I found an interview with Gene!
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Hey, since you know of this, is there any chance you’ve also seen the “moon is manufactured” website? Something about how it was a message, and intentionally designed because how else could it perfectly eclipse the sun. Haven’t been able to turn it up since about 2014
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Missed that one! While trying to look it up I did stumble on a "scientist" who claimed, before the moon landings, that the moon was plasma and not rock. They couldn't find him again for a follow up interview after the landing.
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That site is pure schizophrenia/dementia Jesus but it sure is interesting. Also sad. If you read the wiki it says he went to universities to do talks and would challenge people to prove him wrong. No one did.
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How can you disprove a hallucination?
He gets really pissy and racist on page 2
https://web.archive.org/web/20160103165000/http://www.timecube.com/timecube2.html
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Surprised no-one said <your lemmy instance here>
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NGL, I'm scrolling through to see if anyone did this.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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https://jmp.chat - cell phone number without the need for ID verification.
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bruh.news - ai generated news headlines, pretty silly
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