Useless & Pointless Websites
A curated list of useless websites and pointless websites — single-serving jokes and delightfully pointless web toys you can browse with short notes.
This Is Sand—pour colorful digital sand to make layered sand-art pictures.
Species in Pieces—polygonal illustrated endangered animals you can explore piece by piece.
neal.fun Size of Life—compare lifespans and scales across living things.
The Scale of the Universe—scroll interactive size comparisons from quarks to cosmos.
Smash the Walls—break through walls in a simple browser smash game.
robotics.ovh—fling and tumble dancing robot figures in a physics playground.
Persepolis: A Virtual Reconstruction—Getty’s digital exhibit on ancient Persepolis.
Paper Toilet—endless scrolling virtual toilet-paper roll.
Photos that always point at your mouse—move the cursor, the finger follows.
Floor796—pan and zoom a huge anime-style space-station cross-section illustration.
Species in Pieces (listing)—polygonal endangered-animal web exhibit.
JODI net art—early web art that intentionally glitches and confuses the browser UI.
Porthole—spaceship window ambience for your desktop browser.
Fake Windows-style blue screen you can customize—prank theater, not a real crash.
WPlace—collaborative pixel art on a world map, in the spirit of r/place.
Pink Trombone—manipulate a vocal-tract model with the pointer to synthesize speech-like sounds.
Firewood Splitting Simulator—align and click to split logs in a small Three.js toy.
Birthday Cake Online—build a cake in the browser and blow out candles with your microphone.
The Useless Web—click Please to open a random curated useless website.
Neal.fun—Neal Agarwal’s collection of interactive web experiments and games.