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There are still lots of people having fun on the internet. I'm tracking them down and listing them here. Email me at jb@lot23.com if you have ideas for more!

November 2020

• Bongo Cat!

June 2020

• The Return of the 90s Web

April 2020

• Here is a collection of web browser toys
• David Rickmann was asked how many pigeons would fit into a child and made this report
• DuetoCovid19.com is collecting signs from around the world
• Cuddlecall.me lets you book video chats with animals!
• I added RSS to this page!
• https://cables.gl/ looks like they’re having a lot of fun over there

February 2020

• One of my favourite creators is back with a game and podcast
• Neal.fun is fun!
• Do you like this page? Then you’ll like Nathalie Lawhead
• Engaging data is pretty neat, try this calculator

January 2020

• Joel Franusic used machine learning to find old Krazy Kat comics
• Monica Dinculescu is great and this talk is great
• This is from 2004 and it’s still great
• I don’t know what this even is, but they’re having fun
• Raph Damico gets it
• Vole.WTF seems pretty great.
• Ten Years Ago shows you the internet as it was ten years ago.
• Ryan Kuo has a lot to say about technology.
• Shun Sasaki is a graphic designer.

December 2019

• Glitch.com is making a new publication and are looking for submissions
• Kevin McGillivray made a template for tracking weeks of your life
• Michael E Karpeles knows his purpose on the web
• Hunter Loftis runs PlayfulJS
• An esoteric programming language based on ancient Chinese
• Dr Fox is a wizard with a newsletter
• This Wizard asks you to Choose One Word
• The Cloud Appreciation Society
• The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy on Hypercard
• Building a Slack client in Windows 3.1
• The Sleep Blanket
• The AI Dictionary also has a Twitter bot
• FLASHBack - A weekly chronicle of the classics of Flash Animation

November 2019

• Dramatickers is a fansite for a J-Pop band and I love these band interviews
• Every emoji being used on Twitter, in real time
• Threadgames is a place on reddit where people have fun
• moises.ai is magic technology that splits vocal and music tracks for you
• Waxy.org, which inspired this page, posted painting with CSS
• Two hacker conferences could have started a war but had fun with it instead
• This person is automating an old Simpsons game with Javascript
• A thread where people suggest what to put in 4x4x4 boxes
• Archaeology of Taste is a project about food memories
• The World According to Sound is a 90 second podcast.
• The Band has the sort of in-depth website most fans would love their band to have
• National Novel Generation Month, aka NaNoGenMo, has begun!

October 2019

• The Neil Young Archives are fun
• Callum Prentice does fun code experiments
• This is a game to play in person called Junk Nest City
• default filename tv shows videos uploaded without changing the filename.
• Syrmor’s channel is like Humans of New York in VR
• VRFavs lists absolutely all VR resources on the web
• A link to a Grateful Dead concert that links back to mentions on Reddit. A great idea that can be used in lots of contexts.
• Click anything on this page at random
• Dwitter is a challenge to see what you can write with 140 characters of Javascript
• Pouet.net
• Papers We Love is a repository of academic computer science papers and a community who loves reading them.
• Cameron’s World is a love letter to the early web.
• Bob Dow is having a lot of fun (He also has a swing in his house)
• The Art of Puzzles is a blog about puzzles.
• Incredible Doom is an incredible 6 part comic about growing up online in the 90s
• Lincoln Stewart is selling his records in an interesting way
• Orange Grove Tool Sheds and Utility Boxes of Oliva, Spain
• Keith Pille explains in comic form how he almost worked at the CIA
• I like this generated art from @deconbatch
• @decconbatch did We Dream In Colour
• Over The Wire is a way to learn hacking via simulated wargames
• Jeff Bridges is having a great time on the www

September 2019

• letter.wiki is for penpals in public. People are using it for tough but respectful conversations
• Newsboat is an RSS reader for the terminal
• Kartik Agaram is writing a computer from scratch
• After 5 years, tilde.club has returned and the mailing list thread is nuts and wonderful
• Wiby is a search engine for finding personal pages
• Danielle Baskin is amazing, and she has a dial-up startup
• Internet Pizza Server, from 1997
• Ryan Veeder’s Authentic Fly Fishing is a text based game.

August 2019

• Any old school bloggers still blogging? Yup.
• Jonathan Fly plays with bots
• A bunch of people reporting what creative projects they did in August
• Wait But Why is back with a story about all of society.
• Joel Simon is amazing, check out the upcoming images you’ll be able to make at artbreeder.com
• Artist Max Siedentopf has fun with passport photos
• Squirrel Grand Prix Furmula One
• Channelvoid streams live music visualisations on Twitch such as this one
• Atticus Bones has lovely generative art
• Saskia Freeke has been making daily art since 150101 and it’s great
• Playful world of creative math: a design exploration
• Listen to Wikipedia
• How Generative Music Works is engaging storytelling on a complex topic.
• Tero Parvianen writes detailed essays on his site like this one about web audio.

July 2019

• This anonymous person keeps sending toads as texts
• Really Mean Nuns is visualising different algorithms
• 32 year old single mom using financial forums to plan for a better life, and being cheered on.
• Remember the million dollar homepage? Domains on it are expiring and you can have them for cheap.
• This Krish Raghav comic tells us reggae has roots in ... China?
• Ben Grosser does music and social networking experiments
• The David Rumsey Map Collection is a lot of fun
• Violent Penguin is a wonderful example of creating without over-thinking.
• DigitalHumanism.org finds old computing magazines and displays a random one
• A lot of us are doing web/app things for love.
• It’s portfolio day and these artists are doing great stuff
• Brendan Schlagel made a personal canon
• Wait But Why on Jeopardy betting. We need more blogs and essays like this.
• Runyourown.social is helping people run tiny social networks. Think of it like an art project!
• Datamosher is a gif bot that posts glitchy things
• Old link, but I am amazed by telehack.
• One Hour, One Life is an art game parenting and society simulator built by one amazing person.

June 2019

• Fast Forward was a cassette magazine from the early 80s
• Flow State shares music that’s good for working to.
• Buster Benson is running a very thoughtful community that’s leading to great thought provoking discussions like this.
• Geoff Manaugh writes a wonderful blog.
• Eleanor Lutz is working on an atlas of space
• redmer hoekstra draws animals combined with objects

May 2019

• Fronkonstin draws beautiful things in R
• Home of Hell is an interactive fiction game
• Dylan K made it easy to bring Edward Tufte’s style to websites
• Worldbuilding Stack Exchange is where world builders ask and answer questions
• The Daily Minimal shows a nice geometric design every day.
• "cat" is a command that reads files. So someone made "lolcat"
• Robin Sloan uses little bursts of AI creativity to assist when he’s writing
• Generalist academy shares one interesting thing every day
• Wonderland is an agency with a "play" section
• ReasonableFantasy highlights fantasy women that aren’t hypersexualised
• Worldbuilding is an amazing community on reddit
• Junkiyoshi is generating art and sharing the code
• William Van Hecke has been writing his guide to life
• Robin Sloan is very curious and likes to share his discoveries
• Craig Mod walked 710 kilometers in Japan and it changed him
• Sage Jenson's physarum