3/17/2024 0 Comments My useless website![]() ![]() We’re seeing more and more dynamic digital experiences with webVR, AI/ML, and visually creative experiences made with p5js and THREE. Their lovely interactions that keep users on their sites somehow give a hint of what people need or look for. Unlike mine, their curations are better in terms of the ‘uselessness’ of the websites, so check it out!įor me, those useless websites were actually great sources of inspiration and references. This site will lead you to a useless website in their archive. Yes, the title of this posting came from this website. Still in a digital format though, but this website prints your log of music on a receipt. It’s inevitably lovely when digital meets analog. This reminds me of the chrome dino game with its simpleness, but I’d give more points to checkbox race by the fact that it brought familiar checkboxes into a part of the game. If you’re down for something random as your WFH playlist, what about heading to your dream city on a ride? I actually stayed on the website quite a long time.Īnother one with a similar concept - WindowSwap allows you to open a new window somewhere in the world. I should confess my standard of ‘useless’ is vague, and this might look somehow quite useful. It’s a 21st-century version bottle message. They’re messages from random people out in the world, and you can catch them to read, or you can throw one by yourself. You’ll see a small planet with flying paper planes. I’ll speak highly of this one for its unique interactions and experiences. And it will give you a QR code, and as you scan it with your mobile, now you can pour beer into the empty glass that you see via the mobile! Yeah sounds fun, but you actually get nothing. This has been one of my favorites, but seems like it’s down :( But to keep a record of it, when you go into their website you’ll see a beer tap, with an empty beer glass. I’m sure you’ll end up staying on this page for quite a long time! Cybeer This is my favorite one, and honestly, I want to meet a creator of this website and ask what made him/her come up with this idea, and how it was built.Īs you leave your cursor on any part of the website, it’ll pull up a photo that someone is pointing at your pointer. Hope I can encounter many more fun projects, but also keep seeing them live. While I started writing this posting, I realized many of them I used to know are now closed, which is understandable since most of them are the result of pure experiments, not for profit. Those are some of the treasures I’ve found, and I’m planning to keep this list updated when I find a new one. The successfully useless websites ended up making me stay on the website longer to try them out or registered themselves with me for a long time. But personally, there are ones that stand out more to me - the useless websites created without the purpose of serving businesses, promoting oneself, goods, and services, more for experimental purposes. Hands down, my favorite websites are Reddit, and are.Hidden treasures in web space that are created for pure joy, not profit Lovely, creative, and useless websites for your inspirationĪs an interaction designer, it’s a pure joy to find a great website with great storytelling, motions, and graphics. What is your favorite site on the internet? The probability of running into your old skybog is not zero. A simple and fun way to explore the world of the web. By pressing our button, you will discover interesting and amazing websites, which you might never have found otherwise. I still make websites but nowadays most of my time is taken up by graduate school, I’m getting a masters degree in philosophy, poetics and mysticism. All roads lead somewhere, well see where. In the early 2000’s I started making websites for friends, started getting hired to make websites, and a few years after that, I began exhibiting websites as installations and browser-based art. I started making websites in the late 90’s, my first website was on, and it was an offshoot of one of my zines. What got you into web development? What are you working on now? I also got a job at adult swim after they saw Cat Bounce, so I can attest: cats are Internet gold. In 2019 it won a Webby Award and I still get tons of email every week from people who either love it, hate it, or want me to make a site like it but with dogs. The weirdest/most surprising thing about Cat Bounce is that it’s had an incredibly long shelf-life. What is the weirdest thing that has come from owning/running such a unique-not-really-having-a-purpose site? The working title of the site was ‘Internet Crowd Pleaser’ but I ended up calling it Cat Bounce because it was less of a mouthful and it was WYSIWYG (more or less). I also recognized the Internet-popularity of cats and I wanted to see if I could make something that would be a hit on the Internet. I decided to replace the balls that bounced around the screen with cut-outs of cats because I’m a cat freak. ![]() I made Cat Bounce in 2012 when I was fooling around with a physics engine in Flash. What were the circumstances behind creating your site? ![]()
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