Pile #2 · Weird
Weird websites to visit when bored (they actually exist)
Weird websites are not always funny and not always pointless. They are the ones that make you tilt your head. An illustration that zooms forever without arriving. A horse whose legs keep scrolling. A button that shows you a live view out of a stranger’s window.
We file a site as weird when the idea behind it is more interesting than the thing it does. Most of these strange websites are small experiments by artists and developers who wanted to see what would happen, and then left them online for the rest of us.
Every one of them is real and still working. If you are bored, pick one at random or play the Weird path and let the junkyard choose.
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Cameron’s World
★ LEGENDARY💾 Old Internet
A giant collage of rescued GeoCities pages.
A love letter to the old internet, built from text and images dug out of archived GeoCities homepages from 1994 to 2009. Scrolling through it feels like walking past a million forgotten bedrooms.
The Million Dollar Homepage
★ LEGENDARY💾 Old Internetest. 2005
A million pixels sold for a dollar each. It actually worked.
In 2005 a student sold ad space on a single page one pixel at a time, a dollar per pixel. It sold out. Today it is a patchwork of tiny logos, many pointing at websites that no longer exist.
Visit ↗ The Million Dollar Homepage (opens in a new tab)Details about The Million Dollar HomepagePixelsTime CapsuleAdvertisingZoomquilt
★ LEGENDARY🌀 Weirdest. 2004
An infinite painted zoom that never, ever arrives.
A collaborative painting stitched together so every scene hides the next one inside it. The camera keeps zooming. You keep watching. Neither of you gets anywhere.
Click Click Click
RARE RELIC🌀 Weird
Please click the button. It is watching how you do it.
A single button and a list of achievements. The page tracks everything about how you behave and comments on it, which is funny until you remember every other website does the same quietly.
Visit ↗ Click Click Click (opens in a new tab)Details about Click Click Click⚠ Plays audioButtonInteractiveAudioFloor796
RARE RELIC🌀 Weird
One enormous animated sci-fi floor packed with hidden references.
A giant pixel-art style animation of a space station floor, drawn by hand and expanded over years. Zoom in anywhere and you find tiny jokes, cameos and scenes happening at once.
Infinite Craft
RARE RELIC🌀 Weirdest. 2024
Start with water, fire, wind and earth. Combine until nonsense.
By Neal Agarwal. Drag two elements together to create a new one. Four starting items become volcanoes, celebrities, memes and concepts nobody should be able to craft. It genuinely never ends.
La République des Mangues
RARE RELIC🌀 Weird
The official website of the Republic of Mangoes.
A French site proclaiming a republic whose national symbol, and most of whose content, is a mango on a blazing orange sunburst. Long live the mango.
Le Duchamp
RARE RELIC🌀 Weirdest. 2008
A bicycle wheel on a stool, from a famous artwork.
Rafaël Rozendaal’s web tribute to a famous early readymade: a bicycle wheel mounted on a stool, casting its shadow on a white page.
One Million Checkboxes
RARE RELIC🗑 Pointlessest. 2024
A million shared checkboxes. The internet checked them all.
A giant grid of checkboxes that everyone on the internet shared at once. Strangers ticked them together until every single box was checked. You can still play with them alone.
Visit ↗ One Million Checkboxes (opens in a new tab)Details about One Million CheckboxesCommunityInteractiveCheckboxOrb.Farm
RARE RELIC🌀 Weird
A tiny aquatic ecosystem you nurture in a glass orb.
Build a little underwater world out of sand, water, algae, bacteria and fish, then watch oxygen and carbon dioxide balance themselves. Or fail to. The fish will let you know.
Pointer Pointer
RARE RELIC🌀 Weirdest. 2012
Move your cursor. Somewhere, someone is pointing at it.
Hold your mouse still and the page digs up a photo of a real person pointing exactly where your cursor is. There is no score and no ending. You just get pointed at, again and again, by strangers.
Visit ↗ Pointer Pointer (opens in a new tab)Details about Pointer PointerInteractivePointlessClassic InternetRadio Garden
RARE RELIC🌀 Weird
Spin a globe. Listen to live radio wherever it stops.
Every green dot on the globe is a live radio station. Drag the planet around and tune into a morning show in a city you have never heard of.
The Deep Sea
RARE RELIC🌀 Weird
Scroll down into the ocean until the light runs out.
By Neal Agarwal. Scroll from the surface to the bottom of the deepest trench, passing the animals that live at each depth. It gets dark, then very dark, then very strange.
The Scale of the Universe 2
RARE RELIC🌀 Weird
Zoom from the smallest things to the whole universe.
Drag a slider and travel from particles too small to measure up past people, planets and galaxies to the edge of the observable universe. Everything is labelled along the way.
Windows 93
RARE RELIC💾 Old Internet
A fake operating system from an alternate 1993.
A full parody desktop in your browser, packed with strange programs, glitchy toys and in-jokes. It feels like booting a computer from a timeline where things went slightly wrong.
WindowSwap
RARE RELIC🌀 Weird
Look out of a stranger’s window, somewhere in the world.
People film the view from their windows and upload it. You press a button and suddenly you are staring at rain on a rooftop in a country you have never been to. Strangely calming, deeply unnecessary.
Zoomquilt 2
RARE RELIC🌀 Weirdest. 2007
The infinite zooming painting, part two.
The sequel to the legendary infinite zoom: a collaborative painting where every scene hides inside the next. Created by a group of illustrators, it keeps falling inward forever.
100,000 Stars
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
Fly through a 3D map of our nearby stars.
An interactive galaxy you can zoom through, from the Sun out to thousands of neighbouring stars. Names drift past as you go. It makes your to-do list feel very small.
Blank Windows
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
Empty white windows pile up on top of each other.
Rafaël Rozendaal’s artwork of blank, shadowed rectangles stacked across the screen, like every tab you forgot to close, with nothing in any of them.
cachemonet
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
Random GIFs crash into other random GIFs, set to music.
Two randomly generated lists of GIFs collide on screen with a soundtrack, producing combinations nobody planned. Some are funny, some are baffling and some feel like a message from the early 2010s internet.
elgooG
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
Long-buried search engine easter eggs, restored.
A museum of the hidden tricks and doodle games a famous search engine used to ship: gravity that makes the page fall apart, mirror modes and more, rescued and playable again.
Emoji Simulator
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
Build little worlds out of emoji and rules.
A grid of trees that can catch fire, spread and regrow. Change the emoji and the rules and simulate forests, zombies or whatever you invent.
Endless Horse
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
An ASCII horse whose legs never end.
A horse drawn in text characters. Scroll down to reach its hooves. Keep scrolling. The legs keep going. The horse is fine with this.
Falling Falling
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
Bands of colour fall forever.
A single-page artwork by Rafaël Rozendaal: layers of flat colour slide down the screen, endlessly. It is the internet equivalent of watching rain from a window.
Visit ↗ Falling Falling (opens in a new tab)Details about Falling FallingRozendaalArtInfiniteHypnoticInto Time
UNCOMMON🌀 Weirdest. 2010
A slow gradient from red into deep blue.
A colour field by Rafaël Rozendaal that fades from red to midnight blue. It feels like staring at a sunset that has been compressed into a rectangle.
jacksonpollock.org
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
Move your mouse. Drip paint like a famous painter.
An empty canvas that splatters paint wherever your cursor goes. Click to change colour. Within a minute you have something that would confuse an art critic.
Visit ↗ jacksonpollock.org (opens in a new tab)Details about jacksonpollock.orgArtDrawingInteractivelacquerlacquer
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
A hand with freshly painted nails.
A single illustrated hand, fingers held up to show off a manicure. It is a quiet, strange little art site that asks nothing of you.
Move Now Think Later
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
A checkerboard of circles waiting for your cursor.
A black and white checkerboard with little circles, from Rafaël Rozendaal. The title gives you the instructions, and the page rewards following them.
Visit ↗ Move Now Think Later (opens in a new tab)Details about Move Now Think LaterRozendaalArtInteractiveMuch Better Than This
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
Two silhouettes face each other in bold colour.
Two flat, brightly coloured profiles almost touching, from Rafaël Rozendaal. The title suggests someone, somewhere, is having a better time.
Paint Toys
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
A playground of art canvases with odd limitations.
A set of small painting toys inspired by the art world, from dripping oils to other constrained tools. Each has one trick and invites you to make something with it.
Patatap
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
Every key is a sound and a shape.
A portable animation and sound kit. Press keys and each one fires off a noise and a burst of moving shapes. Mash the keyboard and you are performing.
Visit ↗ Patatap (opens in a new tab)Details about Patatap⚠ Flashing images, plays audioAudioKeyboardInteractivePixel Thoughts
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
Put your stress in a star. Watch it shrink into space.
A sixty-second meditation. Type what is worrying you, it becomes a star, and the star drifts away until it is one pixel among billions. Useless in the most soothing way.
r33b.net
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
All glory to a very hypnotic toad.
A tribute page to a famous cartoon toad with spinning eyes. Stare at it and you will understand. Or you will not. Either way, all glory.
Sandspiel
UNCOMMON🗑 Pointless
Pour sand, water, lava and fire. Watch them fight.
A falling-sand sandbox with elements like water, plants, fungus, acid and rockets. Mix them and watch tiny chemistry disasters unfold one pixel at a time.
Silk
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
Draw one line. Get glowing symmetrical silk art.
Interactive generative art. You scribble and the page mirrors, spirals and blends your strokes into glowing silk. Everyone looks talented here.
Staggering Beauty
UNCOMMON💀 WTF
A calm black noodle follows your mouse. Do not shake it.
A wobbly black worm dangles from the top of the screen and follows your cursor like a sleepy pet. Move gently and nothing happens. Shake your mouse hard and the whole page loses its mind.
Visit ↗ Staggering Beauty (opens in a new tab)Details about Staggering Beauty⚠ Flashing images and loud noiseInteractiveChaosClassic InternetThe Human Clock
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
The current time, held up by a stranger in a photo.
Every minute of the day has its own photo, sent in by someone who found the time written somewhere: on a sign, a cake, a hand. It tells the time more slowly and much more warmly than your phone.
The Internet Map
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
Every website as a planet in a galaxy.
Websites drawn as circles in space, sized by traffic and clustered by how they link to each other. Zoom around and find the tiny planet you visit every day.
The Nicest Place on the Internet
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
Free hugs from strangers, delivered by video.
Real people recorded themselves hugging the camera so you could feel slightly better. It is surprisingly effective and completely unnecessary, which is the best kind of useful.
The Salmon of Capistrano
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
The official homepage of a salmon. Thanks for visiting.
A very formal homepage for a fish, complete with a polite thank-you and a contact address for serious inquiries. We are not sure what a serious inquiry would be.
This Is Sand
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
Pour digital sand into little layered landscapes.
Pick colours and pour grains of sand onto the screen, building layers like one of those souvenir bottles. Nothing is saved for any purpose. It just looks nice.
Weird or Confusing
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
Random real products that should not exist, but you can buy them.
Every visit pulls up a strange product from a real online store. Novelty tools, questionable gadgets, objects without a clear reason to live. Someone manufactured every one of them.
Yes No If
UNCOMMON🌀 Weirdest. 2014
A soft gradient that asks nothing and answers nothing.
A calm, shifting gradient of blues from Rafaël Rozendaal. Three words in the title, zero words on the page. The indecision is the point.
You Are Listening To
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
Ambient music mixed with live city sounds.
Pick a city and the site blends calm ambient music with live audio from that place. It is strangely soothing and a little surreal, like overhearing a city dream.
Visit ↗ You Are Listening To (opens in a new tab)Details about You Are Listening To⚠ Plays audioAudioCalmTravelcorndog.io
COMMON JUNK🗑 Pointless
It is raining corn dogs. Forever.
A pale blue sky with corn dogs falling diagonally across it, endlessly. There is no explanation, no weather forecast and no way to make it stop.
Draw a Fish
COMMON JUNK😂 Funny
Draw a fish. It swims in a tank with everyone else’s.
Sketch a fish, however badly, and release it into a shared online tank full of other people’s drawings. Vote on the best ones. Judge the worst ones silently.
How Many People Are in Space Right Now?
COMMON JUNK🌀 Weird
One number, updated whenever someone leaves the planet.
A big number telling you how many humans are currently off Earth, with their names, roles and how many days they have been up there. Oddly comforting.
Long Doge Challenge
COMMON JUNK🌀 Weird
Scroll the doge. The doge is long.
A meme dog whose body keeps stretching as you scroll. The challenge is to reach the end. The doge has other plans.
MapCrunch
COMMON JUNK🗑 Pointless
Press go. Teleport to a random street.
A big button that teleports you to a random street-level view, with filters for regions if you want to be slightly less lost. There is also a daily view picked by someone who got lucky.
Mondrian and Me
COMMON JUNK🗑 Pointless
Make your own grid of colour blocks.
Split rectangles and fill them with primary colours until you have something that looks suspiciously like a museum painting. Nobody needs to know it took thirty seconds.
Pixels Fighting
COMMON JUNK🗑 Pointless
Two colours of pixels battle for the screen.
A grid split between two colours that endlessly invade each other. There is no player, no winner for long, and no reason to stop watching.
Purrli
COMMON JUNK🌀 Weird
An online cat purr generator with sliders.
A virtual cat that purrs on demand. You can tune how sleepy, happy or close it sounds with a set of sliders. No litter tray required.
Random Street View
COMMON JUNK🌀 Weird
Drops you on a random street somewhere on Earth.
Every load is a street-level view of a random place in the world. Most of them are fields, roads and petrol stations. That is exactly why it is hypnotic.
Rotating Sandwiches
COMMON JUNK🗑 Pointless
A catalogue of sandwiches. Rotating.
An archive of sandwiches from around the world, each one slowly spinning in a loop. It is exactly what it says, and it takes itself very seriously.
RRR GGG BBB
COMMON JUNK🗑 Pointless
Three letters in red, green and blue, on black.
Chunky 3D letters in the three colours your screen is secretly made of. It is a website about pixels, made of pixels, for people staring at pixels.
Scream Into the Void
COMMON JUNK🗑 Pointless
Type your frustrations. Watch them vanish into space.
Write whatever is bothering you and send it off into a starry void, where it dissolves. Nobody reads it. That is the point.
The Zen Zone
COMMON JUNK🗑 Pointless
A meditation area made of small, oddly satisfying activities.
A minimalist relaxation zone that calms you down with tiny interactive tasks that are mildly amusing and very satisfying. It will not fix your life. It might fix the next five minutes.
Questions nobody needed answered
What are the strangest websites on the internet?
Impossible to prove, but infinite-zoom art like Zoomquilt, the never-ending Endless Horse and cursor-tracking oddities like Pointer Pointer are strong contenders. Play the Weird path and judge for yourself.
Do these weird websites actually exist?
Yes. Every site in this pile is a real, public website that still works. When one goes offline we take it out of the junkyard.
Are weird websites the same as creepy websites?
No. Everything in this pile is strange in a curious, harmless way. We are going for "huh", not "help".