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Internet Roadtrip heads for the Canadian border
Check out Neal Agarwal's Internet Roadtrip, cleverly superimposed upon Google Street View. It's the latest work from the creator of Infinite Craft, Asteroid Launcher (previously at Boing Boing), Rock...
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Firefox moves to GitHub
Firefox, the onetime prince of web browsers, has moved its codebase to GitHub along with 2,500 other Mozilla projects. It didn't all happen at once, but is part of a version management overhaul...
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Ben Drowned was the ultimate unauthorized Nintendo content
Ben Drowned was one of the great fables of the web: a haunted Nintendo cartridge, unsettling glitches and footage, and a tragic backstory emerging over time. Posed originally in the hoax mode of...
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The web but with a cable TV menu
Eva Decker's Hypertext.tv is a dangerous mingling of the cable and world-wide web user experiences, lovingly rendered with an aggressive CRT shader. Explore the web as you world explore the television...
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Convert normal text to Unicode homoglyphs to look silly, cool or clever
Q and Z (formerly at Panix) is a hidden pillar of the old web, converting text to appear to be upside-down, in a 𝔟𝔩𝔞𝔠𝔨𝔩𝔢𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯 typeface, Ɽ𐌵𐌍𐌉𐌂, or anything else made possible through zillions of Unicode...
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The 88×31 GIF Collection
Building upon earlier efforts, the 88×31 GIF Collection amasses examples of an early and long-obsolete web advertising format. A collection of 4540 classic 88×31 buttons from the 1990s, 2000s, and...
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Want to make a website look like Windows 98? You'll be needing 98.css
If you would like to make a website look and feel exactly like Microsoft Windows 98—and whyever not?—you could do far worse than to use Jordan Scales' 98.css. It's not just a cascading style sheet to...
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Simple Wiki is an encyclopdia for the cluttered mind
Simple Wiki is an encyclopedia for the cluttered mind. If you're having one of those days when your brain is overloaded and you need everything in your day to be simplified, Simple Wiki will give you...
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"This site will self-destruct" finally self-destructs after no-one signs...
In 2020, David linked to a site that promised to automatically self-destruct if ever it went 24 hours without someone adding a message to its guestbook. The creator, FemmeAndroid, posted last week that...
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Salad Fingers and "Weird YouTube"
David Firth's wonderfully horrible Salad Fingers (previously at Boing Boing) today stars not in another bleakly fascinating adventure but in an academic paper, Salad Fingers: Pre-YouTube digital...
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Amazon's Kindle web browser finally good
The Kindle web browser, long an intriguing but rudimentary "experiment" on the e-ink devices, is now "actually usable," writes Brad Linder at Lilliputing. When I visited the Liliputing home page with...
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Subreddits planning to go dark over Reddit's initial public enshittification
Reddark is tracking which subreddits plan to go dark in protest of the site shutting off third-party clients (and doing various other things to make itself look fatter to potential investors in its...
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Collection of 88×31 pixel web buttons from the early web
A.N. Lucas: "Here is a collection of more than 700 88×31 web buttons from the 1990's and 2000's, including the famous "Netscape NOW" and "Internet Explorer" buttons as well as various other buttons for...
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Can Tumblr "be a better Twitter"?
Techcrunch interviews Matt Mullenwag of Automattic/WordPress, which bought Tumblr for a song after a succession of corporate owners let the billion-dollar blog platform decay into a bleak ritual of...
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You'll never believe what this subreddit saves you
Clickbait has evolved over the years as efficient targeted methods have merged seamlessly with marketing savvy to extract clicks from netizens. r/savedyouaclick arises from the digital sea of...
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Marginalia: a directory of wonderful sites
Marginalia is a search engine specializing in "non-commercial" content; it feels perhaps like the web as it could have been if "web 2.0" had never happened. …attempts to show you sites you perhaps...
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"X people are looking at this product" counters widely faked
You know those little notes on shopping sites saying things like "14 people are looking at this product"? We all understand that it's a cheesy way to get us to buy, but we may assume it's basically...
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Horror GIFs
The Horror GIF Necronomicon may not contain every spooky GIF the 1990s had to offer, but it's certainly got the best of them.
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Checkboxland: render everything as HTML checkboxes
At Brian Braun's Checkboxland, everything is made of HTML checkbox elements. You can make your own images and animations out of checkboxes! There's even an API. Checkboxland is a JavaScript library for...
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Facebook to add podcasts, Clubhouse-style audio features
Clubhouse, the fast-growing audio-only social network, has two problems: first, its platform is really just a feature. Second, Facebook is adding the feature. Audio-only networks have become...
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