The Useless Web

http://www.theuselessweb.com

by dutchbrit • 14 years ago

155 55 14 years ago

nateabele• 14 years ago

I disconcur with the evaluation criteria. It took me to this website, which is anything but useless: http://heyyeyaaeyaaaeyaeyaa.com/

ht_th• 14 years ago

Agreed. I got to play with http://www.koalastothemax.com/

sdoering• 14 years ago

That one really stuck... 5 Minutes later, i was still staring at the screen and hitting reload for another round...

LefterisJP• 14 years ago

I also got the same website. Damn it's stuck in my mind right now

BCM43• 14 years ago

For those without flash, what does it do?

aw3c2• 14 years ago

Plays some stupid He-Man cartoon music video.

tholman• 14 years ago

It actually checks for flash support, and removes any flash websites from the potential list... so its a good experience all-round.

mmariani• 14 years ago

Where the internet ends? http://www.wwwdotcom.com

guimarin• 14 years ago

endoftheinter.net

and it never ends. there is always something beyond the end of the world.

Stolpe• 14 years ago

Ok, that's it. It's now officially f__k this s__t o'clock!

tgrass• 14 years ago

Posted in my fb feed. A huge hit.

arscan• 14 years ago

Based on the handful of sites that it sent me to, I'd rename this "The Creative Web".

sharkweek• 14 years ago

The internet is still pure magic to me. Sure I have understanding of the tech but the personality and connectivity is just overwhelming when I pause and really think about it. Sure there's plenty of junk, but it's all part of a huge overall societal benefit.

jtl09• 14 years ago

it at least can spam your web browser's history mark

nathan_long• 14 years ago

Hilarious.

It doesn't fit in with these sites, but my favorite useless site is still Beedogs: http://www.beedogs.com/

The best part is clicking for more beedogs repeatedly and reading what it says.

sdeyerle• 14 years ago

Loved this one - http://heeeeeeeey.com/

p4bl0• 14 years ago

Doesn't work for me (Firefox 10). But the list of URLs is available in the JavaScript here: http://www.theuselessweb.com/js/uselessweb.js.

crisnoble• 14 years ago

If you want to got to all the useless sites with one button click: http://jsfiddle.net/crismanNoble/jjAaf/embedded/result/

Warning:

1)Put headphones in.

2) Your computer might crash hard.

sktrdie• 14 years ago

Interesting what the http://isitchristmas.com/ site is doing. It's using websockets. Anyone can figure it out?

bobbijvoet• 14 years ago

My console logs all people visiting the site, and also where they are from. The author also took the time to translate yes and no to various languages. I got 'Nee' for example, that's Dutch for no.

majke• 14 years ago

Whatever it does, it's using SockJS to do it :)

jacquesm2• 14 years ago

I could have really used that in about '85 or so, unfortunately the web wasn't around.

Family relationships were at an all time low and I simply didn't realize the date and showed up for work. The security guard informed quite clearly that I wasn't supposed to be where I was (at my desk, debugging some crappy COBOL program). I was wondering if I'd gotten the time wrong, never once thought to check the date...

TazeTSchnitzel3• 14 years ago

Used the Chrome Inspector. Looks like mouse movement tracking. It's bi-directional too, I see the frames of mouse movement from other people. I think perhaps this was supposed to show fake cursors of other people on the site, but it isn't working?

halvsjur• 14 years ago

That looks like it. Too bad there's no websocket support in Firebug.

motters• 14 years ago

Not forgetting http://zombo.com/

powrtoch• 14 years ago

There's a "submit" link at the bottom, which is probably the coolest thing about this.

Dove• 14 years ago

Wow. About every three years I find out that zombo.com still exists, and am surprised and delighted all over again.

ctdonath• 14 years ago

"Strange how much human progress and achievement comes from contemplation of the irrelevant." - Scott Kim

jacquesm2• 14 years ago

If you're short on time don't buy his book inversions. And if you know someone who is short on time then don't buy it for them as a Christmas gift either.

dexen• 14 years ago

http://HasTheLHCDestroyedTheEarthYet.com/

    <script type="text/javascript"> 
      //Technically, this will be accurate...
      try {
        document.write("NO");
      } catch(err) {
        document.write("YES");
      }
    </script>

IIRC, the /robots.txt (now sadly missing) used to read, ``the robots will not save you''.

liamzebedee• 14 years ago

http://ducksarethebest.com/

  <!-- jQuery? more like crayQuery -->

mmailman77• 14 years ago

WTF.......http://www.staggeringbeauty.com/

matteodepalo• 14 years ago

Awesome, but it misses the epic http://nooooooooooooooo.com/

jwmoz• 14 years ago

Some of these are brilliant! http://heeeeeeeey.com/

TazeTSchnitzel3• 14 years ago

Which goes to http://hooooooooo.com/

nikcub• 14 years ago

complete list, clickable:

http://heeeeeeeey.com/

http://www.koalastothemax.com/

http://heyyeyaaeyaaaeyaeyaa.com/

http://eelslap.com

http://www.staggeringbeauty.com/

http://ducksarethebest.com/

http://www.omfgdogs.com/

http://burymewithmymoney.com/

http://www.republiquedesmangues.fr/

http://www.hristu.net/

http://www.ismycomputeron.com/

http://randomcolour.com/

http://www.sanger.dk/

http://www.fallingfalling.com/

http://grandpanoclothes.com/

http://www.rrrgggbbb.com/

http://www.everydayim.com/

http://r33b.net/

http://cat-bounce.com/

http://www.leekspin.com/

http://dandandan.net/

http://sometimesredsometimesblue.com/

http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

http://www.something.com/

http://www.winkyface.org/

http://isitchristmas.com/

http://hectorsalamanca.com/

http://ninjaflex.com/

http://ihasabucket.com/

http://corndogoncorndog.com/

http://www.oppositeofpoop.com/

http://giantbatfarts.com/

http://chickenonaraft.com/

http://www.nullingthevoid.com/

http://www.pleasedonate.biz/

http://www.itisamystery.com/

http://imaninja.com/

http://willthefuturebeaweso.me/

http://www.drunkronswanson.com/

http://salmonofcapistrano.com/

http://www.watermelonduck.com/

http://www.ooooiiii.com/

http://www.wwwdotcom.com/

http://www.ouaismaisbon.ch/

http://iamawesome.com/

http://beesbeesbees.com/

http://www.pleaselike.com/

http://crouton.net/

http://www.clicktoremove.com/

http://dastardlydigitofdestiny.com/

http://www.muchbetterthanthis.com/

http://www.nelson-haha.com/

http://www.wutdafuk.com/

http://colinsgiraffe.com/

http://trololololololololololo.com/

http://theshortanswer.com/

http://unicodesnowmanforyou.com/

http://www.patience-is-a-virtue.org/

jgv• 14 years ago

a few of these are from artist rafael rozendaal. check his work out here http://newrafael.com

recycleme• 14 years ago

http://superbad.com/

undergroundhero• 14 years ago

Wow, I got lost in there.

acomjean2• 14 years ago

I love superbad.

Its been around for a while, and with this reminder I see its been updated.

mkenyon• 14 years ago

Photosensitive Seizure Warning!

Wiggling your mouse at http://www.staggeringbeauty.com/ (one of the possible sites) will trigger it.

gagege• 14 years ago

I can't believe http://tunnelsnakes.com/ isn't on there.

edmond_dantes• 14 years ago

Anything that's a subdomain of http://ytmnd.com.

Personal favourite: http://youmakemetouchyourhandsforstupidreasons.ytmnd.com/

TazeTSchnitzel3• 14 years ago

http://rainbowstalin5.ytmnd.com/

magikbum• 14 years ago

http://www.pointlesssites.com/

elimisteve• 14 years ago

From the title, I was hoping to read a crushing indictment of web developers for mostly creating useless crap.

Sadly, it's more like the opposite: a shiny button inviting us all to view useless crap.

teeja• 14 years ago

Some of those are definitely not useless to kids. Remember when you were a kid and some crabby old biddy gave you crap for 'wasting your time'? I do. As for adults and the web: How 'useful' is porno? (Same principle)

tossacct• 14 years ago

you're the man now dog - looping audio with gifs

Good example - http://jeffgoldblum.ytmnd.com/

www.ytmnd.com started 2001 - memes and fads. Mostly gradeschool level humor: sophomoric, casual racism, sexism every ism you'd like to mention. Equally hilarious and offensive.

http://yourethemannowdog.ytmnd.com

http://jurassictourettes.ytmnd.com/ - mashup of jurassic park and "tourettes guy", watch the best parts of jurassic park in 10 minutes

http://ytmnd.com/sites/top_rated/alltime

http://ytmnd.com/info/about

acomjean2• 14 years ago

The useless pages reborn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Useless_Pages

with memepool.com updating again its like the 90s...

now only if Grant Barret would start posting articles to worldnewyork again, we'd have come full circle. (all thats left is an archive of broken links....)

http://grantbarrett.com/old-format-archives

dzuc• 14 years ago

I'm impressed with how much consistent traffic this site has been sending my way: http://s3.amazonaws.com/arena_images/56036/original_90541c1f...

FigBug• 14 years ago

I submitted my site: http://www.wasteaguid.info

srhngpr• 14 years ago

http://www.airhorn.org

tommaxwell• 14 years ago

I just sat here for like two hours... Thanks.

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