Things to do when you're bored online

"Useless but addictive sites"

1. 1.
   Neal.fun (The Gold Standard)
2. 2.
   Pointer Pointer
3. 3.
   The Useless Web
4. 4.
   Hacker Typer
5. 5.
   The Bored Button
6. 6.
   Spend Bill Gates' Money
7. 7.
   Cat Bounce
8. 8.
   Long Doge Challenge
9. 9.
   Corgi Orgy
10. 10.
    Paper Toilet
11. 11.
    Zombo.com
12. 12.
    Endless Horse

"Trivia and weird knowledge"

1. 1.
   Wait But Why
2. 2.
   Atlas Obscura
3. 3.
   Snopes
4. 4.
   Guinness World Records
5. 5.
   Worldometer
6. 6.
   The Marginalian (BrainPickings)
7. 7.
   Wired
8. 8.
   The Verge
9. 9.
   Ars Technica
10. 10.
    TED Talks
11. 11.
    Big Think
12. 12.
    Aeon Essays
13. 13.
    Nautilus
14. 14.
    Quanta Magazine
15. 15.
    Engadget

"Virtual travel and maps"

1. 1.
   Radio Garden
2. 2.
   WindowSwap
3. 3.
   GeoGuessr
4. 4.
   FlightRadar24
5. 5.
   Google Earth
6. 6.
   The True Size Of...
7. 7.
   Radiooooo
8. 8.
   Random Street View
9. 9.
   MapCrunch
10. 10.
    GeoGuess Master
11. 11.
    Virtual Vacation
12. 12.
    Drive & Listen

"Browser-based instruments"

1. 1.
   Chrome Music Lab
2. 2.
   Patatap
3. 3.
   Incredibox
4. 4.
   Gnoosic
5. 5.
   Every Noise at Once

"Animal cams and simulation"

1. 1.
   Explore.org Live Cams
2. 2.
   Monterey Bay Live Cams
3. 3.
   Magic Seaweed (Surf)

"Brain-breaking images"

1. 1.
   Michael Bach Illusions

"Open courseware & skills"

1. 1.
   Open Culture
2. 2.
   Coursera
3. 3.
   Khan Academy
4. 4.
   MIT OpenCourseWare
5. 5.
   Wolfram MathWorld
6. 6.
   TED-Ed
7. 7.
   Codecademy
8. 8.
   freeCodeCamp
9. 9.
   Duolingo
10. 10.
    Memrise
11. 11.
    Forvo (Pronunciation)
12. 12.
    DOAJ (Open Journals)
13. 13.
    JSTOR Open Content
14. 14.
    Google Scholar
15. 15.
    ResearchGate

"Interactive digital art"

1. 1.
   The Zoom Quilt
2. 2.
   Weave Silk
3. 3.
   Koalas to the Max
4. 4.
   Staggering Beauty (Warning)
5. 5.
   Pixlr E
6. 6.
   Photopea
7. 7.
   Remove.bg

"Generative AI tools and toys"

1. 1.
   Quick Draw!
2. 2.
   This Person Does Not Exist
3. 3.
   InspiroBot
4. 4.
   Craiyon (DALL-E Mini)
5. 5.
   AutoDraw

"Physics and fluid sims"

1. 1.
   Sandspiel
2. 2.
   WebGL Fluid Simulation

"Riddles and ARG-style sites"

1. 1.
   SCP Foundation
2. 2.
   Creepypasta
3. 3.
   Library of Babel

"Aesthetics typing games"

1. 1.
   Monkeytype
2. 2.
   Typeracer
3. 3.
   Keybr

"Cognitive exercise games"

1. 1.
   Lumosity
2. 2.
   Brilliant
3. 3.
   Sudoku.com
4. 4.
   Chess.com
5. 5.
   Lichess

"Web-based instant games"

1. 1.
   Little Alchemy 2
2. 2.
   Cookie Clicker
3. 3.
   Slither.io
4. 4.
   2048
5. 5.
   Tetris Official
6. 6.
   Find The Invisible Cow
7. 7.
   JigsawPuzzles.io

"Nostalgia and internet history"

1. 1.
   The Wayback Machine
2. 2.
   Windows 93
3. 3.
   JS Paint

"Astronomy and scale models"

1. 1.
   Scale of the Universe 2
2. 2.
   CERN LHC Info
3. 3.
   NASA Pic of the Day
4. 4.
   ISS Radio
5. 5.
   100.000 Stars
6. 6.
   NASA SoundCloud
7. 7.
   WikiSky
8. 8.
   Solar System Scope
9. 9.
   Moon Giant
10. 10.
    ISS Live Stream
11. 11.
    Mars Perseverance
12. 12.
    James Webb Telescope

"Personality and logic quizzes"

1. 1.
   16 Personalities
2. 2.
   Human Benchmark

"Legendary internet comics"

1. 1.
   XKCD
2. 2.
   The Oatmeal
3. 3.
   Cyanide & Happiness
4. 4.
   SMBC Comics
5. 5.
   Perry Bible Fellowship
6. 6.
   Questionable Content

"Deep knowledge quizzes"

1. 1.
   Sporcle
2. 2.
   JetPunk
3. 3.
   KnowledgeNuts