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Fun and interesting websites cover the odd corners of the web, from curiosities to time-wasters. The topic collects interactive toys, strange archives, random generators and long-running list pages, mixing polished studio projects with personal pages kept alive for years. Not every entry ages well, so check how much of each site still works, whether it asks for an account and how heavy it is on mobile data. A few change often, and others are frozen in time, which is part of their charm. Nothing here is required reading, so treat the topic as a shelf to browse when you want something light.
Orteil's homepage is the personal site of a developer who makes toys and games in JavaScript with help from Opti. It lists games including Cookie Clicker, Neverending Legacy, Nested, Genesis, and Murder Games, plus tools such as RandomGen, Idle Game Maker, and the Video Game Generator.
paint.wtf is a drawing game judged by an AI. Players draw to prompts, and rankings of best drawings are shown for past prompts. It was created by roboflow and banana with OpenAI CLIP.
Patatap is a miscellaneous web resource for discovery, directories, archives, web culture, or useful tools.
Pianos.pub is a community map that catalogs street and public pianos worldwide. It lists exact locations, photos, sightings and availability reports, and combines public datasets, historic social posts, personal knowledge and user contributions. Every piano keeps a history of sightings, comments and availability reports, and users can submit missing instruments.
Pianoverse is a miscellaneous web resource for discovery, directories, archives, web culture, or useful tools.
pixels.land is a miscellaneous web resource for discovery, directories, archives, web culture, or useful tools.
Plot Generator is a text generator from Aardgo that automatically drafts a story plot for film or paperback from chosen keywords. It offers genres including romance, mystery, crime, horror, science fiction and vampire, and can generate short stories, movie scripts, fairy tales, blurbs and titles. The site aims to inspire users to write their own stories.
PoliticalTests is a website that links to a collection of political quizzes made by its author, gathered in one place for easier access. The listed tests include RightValues, 10Groups, AuthValues, 12Axes, 6Foundations and others, some based on 8values, SapplyValues and the Moral Foundations Theory. It also links to unrelated tests such as 8Values.
Popcat is a miscellaneous web resource for discovery, directories, archives, web culture, or useful tools.
PortalPioneer is a miscellaneous web resource for discovery, directories, archives, web culture, or useful tools.
Posting.Cool hosts The Orb, an online forum with 1272 registered members, 173506 total posts and 19949 topics. The forum permanently bans Canadian musician Drake and his affiliated businesses and organizations from participation, and warns that forum posting is addictive.
PostSecret is a platform for sharing previously unshared personal secrets. It features secret categories including Sunday, Adoption, Classic and Voicemail Secrets, has published six PostSecret books, hosts PostSecret Live! events and operates The Museum of Us.
PostSecretVoicemail is a miscellaneous web resource for discovery, directories, archives, web culture, or useful tools.
PrankHotline is an automatic prank calling application. It allows users to send anonymous pre-recorded prank calls to contacts, record live reactions, use a two-phone mutual call prank feature, and access premium features via a token system earned through social media engagement. All prank calls require user consent for recording.
Pranx is a website offering online computer pranks to play on friends, such as opening a prank page on an unattended computer. The site notes that full screen can be toggled with F11 to hide the address bar and browser frame, and that pranks work best on a desktop computer or tablet.
Presence is a miscellaneous web resource for discovery, directories, archives, web culture, or useful tools.
procatinator is a miscellaneous web resource for discovery, directories, archives, web culture, or useful tools.
Purrli is an online cat purr generator that recreates the sound and presence of a purring cat through a custom sound engine modelled after real purrs. The site lists use cases such as anxiety relief, sleep, and homesickness, and states that it is a free website that runs without ads.
An interactive map of the world in A Song of Ice & Fire and A Game of Thrones. A slider lets visitors hide details beyond the chapters or episodes they have completed, and the paths of major characters can be animated. The map links to further details on the Westeros.org wiki and uses the Google Maps API.
The Place Atlas Initiative is a group that hosts the r/place Atlas projects and others, including atlases for 2017, 2022 and 2023 and the r/place Wiki. The page lists affiliated projects and names members of its archival, development and wiki teams.
R74n is a collection of web projects, experiences and tools from the developer of Sandboxels. The collection links to projects including the Sandboxels falling-sand simulator, Infinite Chef kitchen simulator, GenTown planet simulator, Copy Paste Dump and a unit converter.
Random Art is a miscellaneous web resource for discovery, directories, archives, web culture, or useful tools.
Random-Website is a miscellaneous web resource for discovery, directories, archives, web culture, or useful tools.
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