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about this site →// a directory of the good internet
These are the websites we recommend you visit. Every one is worth trying.
We visit and test every site ourselves, and only the ones worth your click earn a recommendation. Blue means you haven't been there yet. Purple means you have.
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full directory →Fly through a 3D map of our stellar neighbourhood, zooming from the Sun out to the shape of the Milky Way.
about this site →All-in-one wedding planner: 179 live-editable website themes, RSVP tracking, seating, budget and guest photos, free up to 30 guests.
about this site →Hand-curated film and show recommendations filtered by mood and streaming service, with no algorithmic filler.
about this site →Mix rain, thunder, waves, fire and coffee-shop chatter into a custom ambient background for focus or sleep.
about this site →Steven Wittens's blog with interactive WebGL explanations of maths and graphics.
about this site →Legendary retail-horror chronicles from the owner of a 90s video game store.
about this site →The browser game portal that ate an entire generation's computer-lab hours.
about this site →Dead-simple browser timer that's faster than picking up your phone.
about this site →From the blog
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Chronotrains: How Far You Can Get by Train From Anywhere in Europe
Chronotrains draws isochrones over Europe's rail network — hover any station and coloured bands show everywhere reachable in one to eight hours. Free, no account, built on Deutsche Bahn timetable data.
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fffuel: Sixty-Odd Free SVG Generators for Gradients, Patterns and Textures
fffuel is a collection of more than sixty free browser-based generators that produce SVG gradients, blobs, patterns, textures and backgrounds — no account, no watermark, free for commercial use.
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Sam Rose: Computer Science You Can Play With
samwho.dev is Sam Rose's collection of visual, interactive essays on the ideas underneath software — load balancing, memory allocation, Bloom filters, Turing machines — where every diagram animates and most of them let you fiddle with the inputs.
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myNoise: 300+ Soundscapes You Tune Slider by Slider Until the World Goes Quiet
myNoise is a Belgian engineer's one-man library of adjustable soundscapes — ten sliders per generator, field recordings instead of AI, a hearing calibration that shapes the sound to your ears, free on the web with no account.
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OpenAlex: The Free, Open Index of 324 Million Scholarly Works
OpenAlex maps the entire research system — papers, authors, institutions, funders, journals — as one openly licensed graph, free to search in the browser and free to download in full. Built by the nonprofit behind Unpaywall.
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Wormhole: Send 10GB End-to-End Encrypted, With a Link That Deletes Itself
Wormhole encrypts files in your browser before they upload, hides the key in the part of the URL servers never see, hands you a share link in about two seconds, and wipes everything after 24 hours. No account, no cost.