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https://p2r3.github.io/convert/

convert anything to anything, make excel file into pdf, 3d print the bee movie. no more rules

mediaplate.au

I've been using it as my homepage. It allows you to search Google and other engines without AI summaries, it gives you your IP address and just enough weather info without being obtuse, it loads quickly, and has a timer, stopwatch, scratchpad and conversion table for imperial to metric ect.

https://wiby.me/surprise/

It takes you to a random web 1.0 site that has somehow survived all this time.

And it led me to this site, a public voice-mail:

https://afterthebeep.tel/#3EXp

Streaming radio from around the world: Radio Garden

Best language lessons short of full immersion: Language Transfer

dimensions.com

It's the weirdest shit I've ever seen. Before I get into it, I want to point out that I've been using this site for years, since before LLMs were a thing, so this is definitely not generated by AI.

It's just like, generic outline drawings of things. Objects, people, places, everything.

So sometimes I like to draw, and I need a model to work from for the pose and the proportions, and this site has a ton of them. Child kicking a ball? Yes. Adult man sitting on a bench? Several options to choose from. Woman carrying a box? Three different poses.

Pointing, pushing, protesting, thinking, vacuuming, raising one's hand to summon a waiter in a restaurant, it's all there.

I'm sure there's some kind of industrial use for it, like for diagrams or blueprints or something, but then we get to the descriptions. Like on the page for people carrying boxes, it says:

People lift boxes either in their personal lives or at work. People lift boxes to move residences. Mailmen or delivery truck drivers lift boxes everyday as part of their job. Some jobs may require their applicants to be able to lift a certain weight of box. When lifting boxes, it is important to lift with your knees instead of your back to prevent back injury.

Then there's always three questions, which they provide answers to. For carrying, those questions are:

What is a carry on bag?

What is carrying capacity?

How much can a horse carry?

Why? Whom is that for?

Under the pictures of elderly people it asks things like "What are the best exercises for maintaining mobility in seniors?" and "How can seniors adapt their homes for safety and accessibility?"

Is this for dolphins? Did a dolphin learn to read English, and they want to understand human society?

I'm struggling to find the weirdest examples, because honestly it's the breadth as well as the depth. Someone clearly put a ton of work into this, and I love it, but I don't understand it.

Does Lemmy count?

Floor 796 — https://floor796.com/

https://www.gutenberg.org/

It's been around for half a century and nobody knows about it. It's like a world wonder, a modern Library of Alexandria.

Other than everyone reading this, nobody really knows about Lemmy.

I’m not saying it’s the coolest, but I made a thing to scratch an itch that others may enjoy. I modeled it after something I found a few decades back that I never found again.

https://rhuidean.studio/

Forgot to mention it is available as a tui too. cargo install rhuidean-studio

https://windows93.net/ - Some mad lad implemented a custom parody version of Windows 95 that has a bunch of working applications and emulators. Also, check out !internetisawesome@sh.itjust.works for a lot of similar sites.

https://www.nandgame.com/

Learn how a computer works by building your own from scratch.

This page on how mechanical watches work with really snappy interactive 3d bits that let you "feel" how the parts do their thing. And the dozens of other articles on other topics also on the site

https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/

According to the people in my office nobody knows about archive.org and I think it's pretty cool.

https://www.thistothat.com/

To figure out what type of adhesive/glue you need to attach x material to y material

https://internet.nl/ that tests a bunch of security related things and gives your server a score. Great for checking a few more boxes.

Every noise at once - https://everynoise.com/

Wikipedia article.

It's still usable, and the Spotify playlists are still there. If you like exploring music styles, this is for you. Warning, time will disappear.

turnmeintoagirl.com is a greatwebsite for all those transfems that still dont know they are trans.

https://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/

despite being promoted on reddit quite a few times, nobody knows about lemmy. early on when reddit was banning on the explicit subs, some of us fled to an international forum that looks reddit, its relatively unknown, but it was discusisng "illicit stuff" i think it was an obscure canadia/EU sites, so the US cant force it to close down, sadly most of the people dispersed from that community long time ago.

another one as of recently is because of reddit bans, people fled to a forum that discuss how to evade it, and how they were banned from reddit.

I wouldn't say unknown, as it's a staple of the shortwave and ham radio communities, but websdr.org is a place where people stream software defined radio feeds from around the world. It's not like a traditional internet radio station where you have an audio stream of a single station. You pick an SDR server hosted by a volunteer, and then you're given a frequency input, modulation selection, and waterfall display as though you were listening to an actual shortwave radio.

I know it's well-known because Eastern European stations were swamped during Russia's initial invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

www.webtender.com

It's still the same same as it was almost 30 years ago and is an example of both how websites used to look and also shows how much more functional things used to be when implemented well, inspite of modern aesthetic evolutions

if the moon were only one pixel

https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

gives a better idea of how ridiculously vast the solar system and outer space actually is--if you turn on "scroll at light speed" it feels slow at these distances

https://posthog.com/ Its best on desktop or in desktop mode Its basically a recreation of a desktop with icons in the browser. Its super cool to just navigate around in.

edupad.ch

Write collaboratively without account or registration. Just start a pad and send the link to your collaborators.

https://www.parapluesch.de/whiskystore/test.htm

(don't mind the URL, I don't know, I can't tell you why, but it leads to the game)

PARAPLÜSCH! The psyciatry ward for abused cuddlytoys!! It's such a sweet and at the same time disturbing game (I recommend playing on PC, not smartphone)

(You can select a number of languages, though it is originally german)

this is my favorite regeneration.org a bunch of issues our world faces with all sorts of different solutions

http.cat

https://www.nooooooooooooooooooooooooo.com/