Retro Web + Old Net Art + Rabbit Holes · open in a new tab · inspired by Bored.com

• BBS Classics
• Textfiles.comhttps://textfiles.com/
  Classic BBS text archives, phreaking lore & ASCII
• Retro Desktops
• Windows 93https://www.windows93.net/
  Faux 90s desktop OS in your browser — very cool
• Windows 96https://windows96.net/
  Another clickable retro desktop playground
• 98.js — Windows 98https://98.js.org/
  Boot a Win98-style desktop in a tab
• JS Painthttps://jspaint.app/
  MS Paint clone — classic pixel doodling
• Retro Web (Bored)
• Nightwave Plazahttps://plaza.one/
  24/7 vaporwave radio — CRT neon vibes
• Million Dollar Homepagehttps://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
  A million pixels sold in 2005 — still up
• The First Websitehttps://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
  CERN — Tim Berners-Lee's original WWW page
• Melonking.Nethttps://melonking.net/
  Handmade personal web — explore like 1999
• Superbadhttps://www.superbad.com/
  Classic net-art rabbit hole
• Heaven's Gatehttps://www.heavensgate.com/
  Preserved mid-90s cult homepage (historical)
• Poolsuite FMhttps://poolsuite.net/
  Summer-of-'98 online radio lounge
• GifCitieshttps://gifcities.org/
  Search the GeoCities GIF archive
• Winamp Skin Museumhttps://skins.webamp.org/
  Tens of thousands of playable Winamp skins
• Dole/Kemp '96https://www.dolekemp96.org/
  Original 1996 presidential campaign website
• Old Net Art
• Cameron's Worldhttps://www.cameronsworld.net/
  Love letter to GeoCities personal homepages
• Space Jam (1996)https://www.spacejam.com/1996/
  The legendary Warner Bros. movie site
• Neocities Browsehttps://neocities.org/browse
  Modern handmade web — GeoCities spirit
• GeoCities Revivalhttps://geocities.restorativland.org/
  Restored GeoCities neighborhoods
• Hampster Dancehttps://hampsterdance.com/
  The late-90s earworm homepage
• Museum of ZZThttps://museumofzzt.com/
  Archive of classic ZZT worlds
• Hypnospace Outlawhttps://www.hypnospace.net/
  1999 alternate-web adventure (IRL site)
• Rabbit Holes · Live Earth
• Zoom Earthhttps://zoom.earth/
  Watch the world via live satellite imagery
• Flightradar24https://www.flightradar24.com/
  See every plane currently in the sky
• MarineTraffichttps://www.marinetraffic.com/
  Track all ships at sea in real time
• Windyhttps://www.windy.com/
  Live map of winds and storms
• LightningMapshttps://www.lightningmaps.org/
  Watch lightning strikes hitting Earth in real time
• USGS Earthquakeshttps://earthquake.usgs.gov/
  Live list of recent earthquakes
• Submarine Cable Maphttps://www.submarinecablemap.com/
  Ocean cables carrying the internet
• Global Forest Watchhttps://www.globalforestwatch.org/
  Watch forests disappear from space
• Worldometershttps://www.worldometers.info/
  The world's statistics, second by second
• Internet Live Statshttps://www.internetlivestats.com/
  Current number of tweets and searches being posted
• Rabbit Holes · Maps & Places
• The True Sizehttps://thetruesize.com/
  Compare the true sizes of countries
• Old Maps Onlinehttps://www.oldmapsonline.org/
  Maps from centuries ago
• David Rumsey Mapshttps://www.davidrumsey.com/
  Archive of 150,000 historical maps
• OpenStreetMaphttps://www.openstreetmap.org/
  World map drawn by volunteers
• WindowSwaphttps://www.window-swap.com/
  Look out the window of a random person around the world
• Virtual Vacationhttps://virtualvacation.us/
  Virtual walks through cities
• MapCrunchhttps://www.mapcrunch.com/
  Teleport to a random spot on Earth
• Atlas Obscurahttps://www.atlasobscura.com/
  Catalog of the world's strangest places
• Rabbit Holes · Space
• Neal.funhttps://neal.fun/
  Interactive knowledge experiences
• Scale of the Universehttps://htwins.net/scale2/
  Scale journey from atom to universe
• NASA Eyeshttps://eyes.nasa.gov/
  Explore the solar system in 3D
• Stellarium Webhttps://stellarium-web.org/
  Real sky map in your browser
• APODhttps://apod.nasa.gov/
  NASA's astronomy picture of the day
• NASA Image Libraryhttps://images.nasa.gov/
  NASA's entire visual archive, free
• Rabbit Holes · Data & Viz
• The Puddinghttps://pudding.cool/
  Visual articles told through data
• Our World in Datahttps://ourworldindata.org/
  The state of the world with real data
• Gapminderhttps://www.gapminder.org/
  What we mistakenly think we know about the world
• Information is Beautifulhttps://informationisbeautiful.net/
  Visualizing complex data
• World Bank Open Datahttps://data.worldbank.org/
  World Bank's open data
• Time and Datehttps://www.timeanddate.com/
  Time, sunrises, and sky events
• ScienceDailyhttps://www.sciencedaily.com/
  Live stream of science news
• arXivhttps://arxiv.org/
  Free preprints of scientific papers
• Observablehttps://observablehq.com/
  Visualize data with live code
• Rabbit Holes · Archives & Culture
• Internet Archivehttps://archive.org/
  Archive of millions of books, films, and software
• Project Gutenberghttps://www.gutenberg.org/
  70,000 free books whose copyrights have expired
• Open Libraryhttps://openlibrary.org/
  Record of every book in the world
• Library of Congresshttps://www.loc.gov/
  U.S. Library of Congress digital archive
• Europeanahttps://www.europeana.eu/
  Europe's cultural heritage archive
• DPLAhttps://dp.la/
  America's digital library collection
• Google Arts & Culturehttps://artsandculture.google.com/
  Tour museums from home
• Rijksmuseumhttps://www.rijksmuseum.nl/
  Download artworks in high resolution
• WikiArthttps://www.wikiart.org/
  Archive of 250,000 artworks
• Public Domain Reviewhttps://publicdomainreview.org/
  Forgotten visual treasures of history
• Open Culturehttps://www.openculture.com/
  Free archive of culture and education
• The Methttps://www.metmuseum.org/
  Met Museum's open collection
• Rabbit Holes · Music & Wiki
• MusicMaphttps://musicmap.info/
  Family tree of music genres
• Radiooooohttps://radiooooo.com/
  Pick a country and decade to listen to that era
• Listen to Wikipediahttps://listen.hatnote.com/
  Turn Wikipedia edits into audio
• Wikipedia Randomhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
  Random knowledge well
• More
• Bored — Nostalgia Triphttps://www.bored.com/nostalgia-trip/
  The list that inspired this outbound door

Modern useful doors · not nostalgia · open in a new tab · a few piracy / paywall-bypass sites were left off

• Learning
• Project Gutenberghttps://www.gutenberg.org/
  70,000+ free classic books
• Open Culturehttps://www.openculture.com/
  Free courses from top universities
• Wolfram|Alphahttps://www.wolframalpha.com/
  Solve any math problem instantly
• Graphics
• Photopeahttps://www.photopea.com/
  Free Photoshop in your browser
• Squooshhttps://squoosh.app/
  Compress any image for free
• remove.bghttps://www.remove.bg/
  Remove image backgrounds for free
• Cleanup.pictureshttps://cleanup.pictures/
  Remove objects from photos
• Unscreenhttps://www.unscreen.com/
  Remove video backgrounds
• Shotshttps://shots.so/
  Free product mockups
• Smartmockupshttps://smartmockups.com/
  Create mockups without Photoshop
• Carbonhttps://carbon.now.sh/
  Turn code into art
• Ray.sohttps://ray.so/
  Stylish code screenshots
• Privacy
• Have I Been Pwnedhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/
  Check if you've been hacked
• VirusTotalhttps://www.virustotal.com/
  Scan any file for malware
• Privnotehttps://privnote.com/
  Send self-destructing messages
• Temp Mailhttps://temp-mail.org/
  Instant disposable email
• 10 Minute Mailhttps://10minutemail.com/
  Temporary email
• file.iohttps://www.file.io/
  Auto-deleting file sharing
• Audio
• Radio Gardenhttps://radio.garden/
  Listen to any radio station worldwide
• Every Noise at Oncehttps://everynoise.com/
  Discover every music genre
• Tunefindhttps://www.tunefind.com/
  Find songs from any TV show
• Music for Programminghttps://musicforprogramming.net/
  Focus music
• myNoisehttps://mynoise.net/
  Custom focus soundscapes
• Coffitivityhttps://coffitivity.com/
  Café sounds that boost productivity
• Research
• Elicithttps://elicit.org/
  AI academic paper assistant
• Consensushttps://consensus.app/
  Search scientific consensus
• Connected Papershttps://www.connectedpapers.com/
  Visualize academic paper maps
• Semantic Scholarhttps://www.semanticscholar.org/
  Free academic search
• SciSpacehttps://scispace.com/
  Understand any academic paper
• Dev Tools
• Regex101https://regex101.com/
  Test any regex instantly
• Code Beautifyhttps://codebeautify.org/
  Format code cleanly
• JSON Formatterhttps://jsonformatter.org/
  Read JSON like a human
• ExplainShellhttps://explainshell.com/
  Understand terminal commands
• Everyday
• Raindrop.iohttps://raindrop.io/
  Effective bookmark manager
• Downdetectorhttps://downdetector.com/
  Check if any site is down
• TinEyehttps://tineye.com/
  Reverse image search
• Fast.comhttps://fast.com/
  Check internet speed
• Smallpdfhttps://smallpdf.com/
  Free PDF editing
• iLovePDFhttps://www.ilovepdf.com/
  Merge and split PDFs