Epic Internet Stuff! โจ
September 30, 2020โข2,591 words
Bored? Here's a collection of stuff I stumbled upon on the internet, and thought was pretty epic ๐
Full credit to the legends behind each of these sites ๐ฆธโโ๏ธ
Enjoy! ๐คฉ
- 100,000 Stars - A WebGL 3D Visualization of out Solar System, Galaxy and Universe
- 1001 Albums Generator - Gives you a new album to listen to everyday
- Acapella Extractor - Isolates voice from any track/ removes music and background
- Ask Nature - Search for a query, to find how nature has adapted to solve problems
- A Good Movie to Watch - Find top-rated TV and Movies, for your chosen streaming services and country
- APOD - NASA's astronomy picture of the day - High quality, beautiful space images updated daily
- Abbreviations.com - The World's largest collection of abbreviations and acronyms
- Animated Drawings - Upload a sketch or drawing, and have it be animated with AI
- Ancient History Encyclopedia - Professionally curated online encyclopedia for research, teaching and travel
- Akiyoshi's Illusion's - Static visual illusions that appear to be moving
- Amazon Dating - Order a date with free next day delivery and buyer protection (satire)
- AtlasObscura - Hidden things to see and do around the world
- AutoDraw - Drawing, but AI guesses what you drew and can auto-complete it
- BBC Sound Effects - A database of all 16,000+ sound effects as .wav, created & used by the UK's BBC
- Bilingual baby name finder - Useful to find names that can be pronounced
- Bomb Blast - Search a location, and nuclear weapon, to see the damage area
- Better Explained - Clear, easy to understand and engaging math tutorials (by Kalid Azad)
- Bops.fm - Click a year, and here a song from that time
- Bongo Cat - Hit the bongos like Bongo Cat!
- Bored Panda - Slightly click-batey articles from around the web, great for destroying boredom
- Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics - A humorous play on the teaching of physics (by Carl Hepburn)
- Calligrapher.ai - Convert text to real-looking hand writing, with AI
- Camerons World - View real Geo Cities sites, from the archive
- CapitolTrades - View which stocks US politicians are buying
- Channel Crawler - Discover new YouTube channels by keywords and filters (by Geoffrey Reemer)
- Cinetrii - Analyses reviews to infer possible inspirations behind a film
- City Extremes - Lookup any city, and find the closest and furthest geographic cities
- Citizen DJ - Make music using the free-to-use audio and video materials from the Library of Congress
- Clash - Type in any sentence and have it sung back to you using a variety of artists
- Classic Reload - A series of retro emulators in the browser
- Class Central - Huge collection of free courses and certifications from top Universities and companies
- Connected Papers - Visually shows connections between academic journals
- Conversao - Instantly convert a unit to all others
- Corporate Private Jet Tracker - See live locations of the rich and famous's private jets in the US
- Cryptovoxels - A virtual world
- Cursor Dance Party - Real-time cursor dance party
- DateNightMovies - Input a movie each of you like, to find a movie you'll likely both like
- Denigma - Paste in a block of code, and Denigma will use AI to explain what it does in plain English
- Desk Spacing - Create your own virtual desk setup (or r/BattleStation!)
- Desolhar Philosophy - Simplifying hundreds of Philosophy books into easy-to-follow formulas (by Patrick Milani)
- Deepl - A surprisingly good, AI-powered online translator- much smarter than Google Translate!
- Dimensions.com - Huge reference database containing the exact dimensions of products and objects
- Dr Meme - Meme generator (without watermarks, ads or sign up)
- Dumpster Fire - Watch your message being burnt in real flames!!
- Don't Even Reply - Some hilariously funny email chains
- Does the dog die? - Crowdsourced content warnings for movies, tv, books and more
- DVD Screensaver - Brings back memories, that classic bouncing DVD screen
- Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera - Hourly photos of the Earth from NASA
- Entropy by Aatish Bhatia - Interactive article, explaining entropy with sheep
- EmuOS - A very nostalgic web-based emulation of Windows 98 (by Emupedia)
- Eyes.Nasa.gov - Interactive 3D solar system, showing info about NASA missions
- FSymbols Emoticons - Copy/ Paste text-based emojis
- FBI Infamous Cases & Criminals - A collection of the most infamous criminals & cases investigated
- Flag Waver - Generates a waving flag for any image (some very clever coding, by @krikienoid)
- Find a Spring - A tool to locate a fresh water spring near you, or anywhere in the World, plus info about it
- Flipanim - Create flipbook animations
- Scale Illustrations - Royalty-free, high-quality vectors (by @KarthikS2206 + Flexiple)
- Fake Windows Update - This is a great prank to play on your colleges when they don't lock their laptop!
- Fluid Simulation - Impressive, and kinda relaxing, WebGL dynamic simulation of fluid
- Font Generator - Convert a string into various plain text ASCII fonts (Great for Social Media + Messaging)
- Forekast - Upcoming dates of notable internet events
- Forgotify - Listen to a song that's never been heard before on Spotify (produces some questionable tracks)
- Forvo - Pronunciation Dictionary
- Free Learning List - A collection of awesome educational resources from around the internet
- Grep.app - Allows you to search the contents of files within GitHub repos, with a RegEx option too
- Get Human - Bypass automated phone menus and long hold times, and get put through to a human
- Good Tricks - Tons of magic tricks
- Gradient Clock - Beautiful real-time clock of the big screen
- Hacker Typer - A classic.. pretend to be a hacker
- HelpMap - A website that lets you find local charities to support
- Hemingway - Analyses a writing, and suggests edits to make it easier to read
- How long to Read - Tells you how long it will take to read a certain book
- HostRider - Lo-fi music for coding, with a coding-kitty as a companion
- HotSpot 3D - Compare any 2 smart phones, in a size-accurate 3D environment, to easily visualize dimensions
- Ian's Shoelace Site - An internet classic, everything you've ever wanted to know about laces
- Icebergr Remixed - Draw an iceberg to visualize how it will float
- Ikea Museum - Every Ikea catalog since 1950
- Image Colorize - Free tool that uses AI to add color to black and white photos
- IMDB Compare Shows - Compares ratings over time of TV shows
- Import Yeti - Find any companies suppliers, using data from U.S Customs Sea Shipment Records
- Illustration Kit - Hundreds of free and open source illustrations, with customizable colors
- Isle of Tune - Fun game where you make music from a street plan
- Invite Rick - Invite Rick Astlet to Rick Roll your Zoom meetings
- I Waste so much Time - Just some funny pictures, to waste your time
- Just the Recipe - Removes all the clutter from cooking websites, just paste a URL to a recipe
- Judy Records - Instantly search over 400 million US Court Records
- Jungle Simulator - Nice relaxing, and customizable jungle sounds
- Killed by Google - Google has killed off over 200 of their services - checkout the grave yard
- Life in Months - Create a grid of your life
- Lines - Draw a line, and let Google Earth complete the picture
- ListeningTogether - Shows when two people start listening to the same song, at the same time, via Spotify
- LitSolutions - Find step-by-step solutions to the questions in your textbook
- Lofi.Cafe - Just non-stop lofi, with several stations/ genres to pick from
- Localingual - A map that you can click on, to hear voices from around the world
- Little Alchemy 2 - Weirdly addictive simple element-mixing game
- McBroken - A map which keeps track of which McFlurry machines are broken across the US (by @rashiq)
- MSOutlook-Reddis - Makes Reddit look like Microsoft Outlook (useful for work)
- Measure of Things - See real-world comparisons of a measurement
- Menneske - Clean site to find, print and solve sudokus of all sizes and difficulties, and other puzzles
- Moon Today - Browse the moons craters, mountains and lava channels
- MorseCode.me - Morse Code-only chat room
- MicroPano - Zoom into Vermeer's masterpiece with this 10 billion pixel scan
- Muscle Wiki - Select a muscle, for exercises on how to work it
- Music Roamer - Finds music from similar artists you love:
- My90sTV - Simulates a 90's TV - so nostalgic! See also My60sTV, My70sTv and My80sTV
- Mystery Search - Search for something, and get results of what the previous person searched for
- Nobody.live - Shows live Twitch streams, that currently don't have any viewers (by Charles Stross)
- Neural Love - Uses AI to restore old photos (or videos) to modern quality
- NitroType - Multi-player typing car racing game
- N+7 - Replaces every noun in a body of text, with the seventh word following it in the dictionary
- Neave.tv - TV without context. Click to channel hop
- Open Culture - Free cultural & educational content from across the web
- Opslagify - Calculates how much storage you'll need to download your Spotify playlists
- Orb.Farm - Relaxing lil game, where you create your own eco-system
- OwnersMan - All car manuals
- Paper Plotter - Create math functions out of paper
- Paint.wtf - Draw something and get scored based on AI
- Physics Simulations - Physics simulations
- Pink Trombone - An oral cavity and vocal tract simulator, for helping with speech disorders
- PlayPhrase.me - Search any phrase, to see all the movies it appears in
- Playlist Machinery - Create a (nearly) seamless playlist between (almost) any two artists
- Pointer Pointer - Displays a random photo, of someone pointing to exactly where your cursor is
- Printer Tools - 3D Printer Utilities, including a 3D QR Code Generator
- QR Picture - Turn any picture into a working QR code
- Quick Draw AI Game - See if the neural network can recognize what you've drawn
- QuillBot - AI tool that rephrases text
- Radio Garden - Listen to Live Radio from all over the world
- Radiooooo - Pick a country, and a decade, to hear the songs that would have been on the radio
- RainbowHunt - Amazing rain simulation, built with WebGL
- RelaxCalm - Do nothing for 90 Seconds
- Remove BG - Automatically removes the background of any image
- Roland 808303 Studio - Computer Controlled Rhythm Composer, built with HTML5
- RubikSolve - Rrbik's Cube Solver
- SculptGL - Digital Sculpting Web App
- ShadyURL - A URL Shortener, that makes legitimate websites sound dodgy
- ShareDrop - Share files with other local clients on your network (by Cowbell Labs)
- Short Trip - A beautiful interactive, hand-illustrated short animation (by Alexander Perrin)
- ShortlyAI - This one is really epic! Enter a title, start writing, and the AI will write you an essay
- Shortcuts - Keyboard shortcuts for lots of apps
- Sideways Dictionary - Like a dictionary, but uses analogies to simply explain infosec definitions
- Signal Stickers - An unofficial directory for Signal (messaging app) sticker packs
- Size of Space - Shows the relative size of items in space (Tldr; we're really really small)
- Sketch 2 Code - Convert any hand-drawn wireframe, into HTML code
- SnapDrop - Share files with other devices on your network, no signup or software required
- Snake - Play snake, the classic retro phone game rebuilt by Paul Neave
- SoundeScape - 3-Dimensional, generative sound environments for Focus, Relax or Sleep
- Space Telescope Live - See what the Hubble space telescope is looking at right now
- Space Jam - The original Space Jam site from 1996, still online!
- Strobe.Cool - Weirdly hypothesizing illusion (WARNING: Contains fast-flickering/ strobe lighting)
- Super Cook - Search recipes based on what's in your fridge
- Sunlight Hours per Day - Visualize the number of hours of sunlight parts of the Earth receive per day
- Temark - Convert any bit of long writing, into a short summary
- Terms of Service; Didn't Read - Professionally written, short summaries of important Terms of Service
- The Faces of Facebook - Shows tons of public facebook profile pictures (broken)
- The Google Cemetery - Collection of all 162+ products that Google killed
- The Skullery - Collection of free, well-presented and easy-to-follow recipes
- TimeTraveler - Shows which new words, were first used in print for each year
- TitleScraper - Scrapes any given sub-reddit, and looks for commonly used words and upvotes
- Torrent.parts - Inspect and edit what's in your Torrent file or Magnet link (by Leo herzog)
- Toys from Trash - Hundreds of Science projects using common household items & trash
- Travel Time - Travel time calculator, great for finding somewhere to live for a commute
- Trumpizer - An AI trained to answer questions like Donald Trump
- Tune my Music - Free tool for exporting or transferring music playlists from one service to another
- TypeLit - Practice touch typing, by typing out classic novels
- U Meet Me - Find meeting places between 2 addresses
- Unim.Press - Read Reddit like a newspaper
- Unogs - Search for a movie, to find which country Netflix it is on (useful for choosing VPN location)
- Virtual Vacation - City Guesser Game - Shows parts of cities, to guess location (great for quizzes)
- VisualPing - Monitor website for changes
- WeaveSilk.com - Mesmerizing generative art
- WebAmp - HTML5 implementation of WinAmp in-browser
- What to Watch on TV - Find TV shows, based on IMDB ratings
- What Should I read Next - Discover books, based on other books you've enjoyed
- Wildlife Africam - Live wildlife cameras in Africa
- Winamp Skin Museum - I don't know why...
- Window Swap - Look through a random window- shows videos out of peoples windows
- Windows Error Worm - Have fun dragging Windows XP-style crashed Windows once again
- Worlds Greatest Singers - Vocal ranges of the top singers visualized
- Xkcd - The original source of xkcd's classic comic strips, on Romance, Sarcasm, Math, Computing & Language
- You Okay? - A little something to take your mind of things (by Billy Stevens)
- Zoom Earth - Live satellite photos of Earth
Thanks for visiting ๐ฅฐ
This list serves as a boredom destroyer, or something to take your mind of things- I look for sites that are either amazing, genius, funny, random or useful. There's currently over 200 websites, but this list is still very much a work in progress, and I continue to add new stuff ๐ง
I always love discovering new eipc internet stuff, so if you know of something I should check out, drop me a line at alicia at omg dot lol
- Thanks for all the messages and suggestions so far!