Epic Internet Stuff! ✨

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Bored? Here's a collection of stuff I stumbled upon on the internet, and thought was pretty epic 🌈

Full credit to the legends behind each of these sites πŸ¦Έβ€β™‚οΈ

Enjoy! 🀩

  • 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 πŸ₯°


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 🚧

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!