Helpful or interesting websites I've collected over the years.
Check out my guide to surfing the web with more cool links! For cool Neocities sites, click here!)
last updated: 3/19/21
| The Final Fantasy House | This one's a rabbit hole but well-worth it. |
| MikuTap | A cute music 'game' in your browser where you can click/press keys to make different sounds. |
| MillionShort | Skip the first [####] of most popular search results to skip the clickbait and popular sites. |
| Minecraft (in your browser!) | Perfect for when you're bored at work! |
| my90sTV | Watch 90s commercials/shows/movies/trailers! |
| noclip | Explore old video game levels in your browser |
| Perchance | Create your own random text generators. |
| Put it on a Pedestal | Arrange your own museum of vintage gifs. |
| Recommend Me a Book | Read the first page of a random book with no title/author info displayed, so you can judge by the writing. |
| Routlookit | Discretely read Reddit at work with this inconspicuous Outlook overlay. |
| Spacehey | A Myspace 1.0 lookalike social network by an 18 y/o student from Germany, it's poppin! |
| StumblingOn | Find cool lesser-known websites at random. |
| Toonami Aftermath | Watch old cartoons from Toonami 24/7! |
| Wikiwand | A wikipedia reader that cleans up the formatting and makes the articles look really nice. |
| DownThemAll | A browser extension for most major browsers which lets you download all of the images on a page. |
| TumblThree | Use this program to download entire archives of Tumblr blogs. |
| AI Dungeon | A fun AI-generated interactive text adventure that you play in your browser (or on your phone). Here are some tips for playing nice with the AI. | |
| Chimera Painter | Roughly mark the body parts of your creature with the available 'brushes'. Then click 'transform' and watch it generate a creature! | |
| Petalica Paint | Upload a sketch and have an AI color it in. | |
| Semantris | Word association games powered by machine learning. | |
| Talk to Transformer | See how a modern neural network completes your text. I love playing with this by copying stuff I've written and seeing what it comes up with. | |
| Write With Transformer | A modern neural network that completes your thoughts. | |
| AI Generated Stuff AI Artwork AI People AI Cats AI Dreams AI Words AI Posts (NSFW?) AI Stack Overflow AI Resumes AI EVERYTHING |
Just a dump of all the randomly generated [X] sites out there. |
| AutoDraw | A drawing tool with the option to correct your shapes into clip-art. |
| Draw like Jackson Pollock | Exactly what it says! You can't choose colors though :( |
| Inspirograph | Create spirograph art in your browser. |
| JSPaint | Microsoft Paint in your browser - with Javascript! |
| No Paint | If you like what you see, click on "Paint", or else click "No". No skills required! |
| Orb.Farm | A virtual ecosystem where different species of creature can live, grow and die as part of a self-contained food chain. |
| sandspiel | A falling sand game that provides a relaxing and creative place to play with elements like sand, water, plant, and fire. |
| Silk | Interactive generative art. |
| SuperFormula | Interactive 3D art with sliders. |
| ZzArt | A generative art evolution tool |
| Avoid News | This is a PDF, rather than a website, but it's worth a read for anyone who's depressed by the news. |
| Emotional Codes | A collection of tools for processing emotions and having interpersonal interactions. |
| feeels | An interactive mood wheel, to help identify how you're feeling. |
| Gentle Earth | A quiet place for loud thoughts; vent your frustrations anonymously here. |
| Ventscape | Express yourself into the void anonymously, in realtime with others. |
| ASMRion | ASMR Generator with various sound effects. |
| A Soft Murmur | Ambient sounds to wash away distraction. |
| Purrli | Listen to HD cat purrs as background noise. |
| RainbowHunt | Listen to calming rain sounds with adjustable sliders. |
| tree.fm | Tune into forests around the world (imagery and sound effects) |
| ~ Graphics ~ | |
| ACAB Colors | an extensive list of all hex colors containing "ACAB" or "1312", so your designs can hate cops as much as u do |
| Blinkies!! | This site has SO many blinkies. |
| Boodle Box | 90s-esque "fake" banners and ads |
| The Corporation | More fun fake ads, be sure to link back to their page! |
| EZGif | Useful .gif editing tools! "Optimize" can remove backgrounds to make gifs transparent. |
| FlamingText | Possibly the best word art generator. |
| GifyPet | Generate a cute pet for your webpage! |
| GigaGlitters | A good resource for glitter text. |
| Make WordArt | Standard Microsoft Office style. |
| Photomosh | Add glitchy and retro effects to photos and gifs. |
| Pookatoo | Generate fancy custom fonts. |
| RedKid Generators | Generate a custom text on a ton of various images. |
| RemoveBG | Upload an image and this tool will remove the background. |
| Repeater | A tool where you can upload an image and crop it. It displays the tiled result as you crop, so you can easily spot where to adjust the crop dimensions. |
| Subtle Patterns | Free background patterns. |
| Waifu2X | Size up manga and anime photos. |
| Web Badges World | A huge collection of web badges to display on your site. |
| Web Button Maker | Create your own web button with minimal effort! | ~ HTML/CSS Help ~ |
| Code Beautifiers CSS Beautify HTML Formatter |
Paste your code in here and it will make it look nicely spaced. |
| Codepen | A live editor that shows you HTML/CSS changes as you make them in real time. |
| Construct Your CSS | If you can't be bothered with learning CSS, you can visually create your layout here and then generate the code. |
| How to make your site look good on mobile | a great guide by Lilac Lynx! |
| HTML Cheatsheet |
A handy reference sheet when using HTML |
| HTML Generators |
Generate the markup for lists, tables, links, images and more! |
| Neocities' HTML Tutorial | A good guide for HTML if you are a beginner. |
| Paul's Beginner Guide to HTML/CSS | Another good beginner guide for HTML - this time with CSS. |
| Word to HTML | Paste in some writing with formatting (spacing, bold, italic, etc.) and then generate it into formatted HTML! | ~ Premade Layouts ~ |
| 200Xs Site Layouts LovelyD Celestial-Star Adam McQuaid |
Free layouts that look like they came from 2004. |
| Templaterr | A great resource for html/css templates for your static site. |
| Test Directory | Some free layouts to use if you like! |
| Tooplate | Some modern-looking layouts. | ~ Quizzes ~ |
| Aspie Tests | This site hosts a collection of tests related to autism and Asperger's syndrome. |
| Blogthings | Lots of personality quizzes! - no option to embed them on your site, though. |
| Dante's Inferno Test | Figure out which circle of hell you belong in :) |
| Geek Test | A classic quiz to find out how geeky you are. |
| Humor Sensitivity Questionnaire | What is your style of hymor? |
| IDR Labs | A variety of personality & psychology tests! |
| Open Psychometrics | A variety of personality tests! |
| Political Spectrum Tests | A big list of political spectrum tests. |
| The Otaku | A collection of user-made anime personality quizzes. |
| Spacefem Quizzes
Spacefem Quizzes Your HTML Color What color is your rainbow? What phase of the moon were you born in? |
For some reason, these aren't listed on their /quizzes page, but I decided to link them bc they're cool. |
| UQuiz | Kind of like a modern Quizilla, but with more conceptual aesthetics. |
| Dungeons & Dragons Character Generator | A cool character generator that takes from the DnD 5e handbook. |
| Infinite Artwork Generator | A tongue-in-cheek artwork description generator. |
| Lose the Very | A tool that helps you avoid using the word 'very' to describe something. |
| Various Generators | The generator to end all generators! Seriously, this one is super detailed. |