free media heck yeah
Anna is such a wonderful archivist.
https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/
lets you easily see what old websites and software looked like, often over multiple years.
Have you ever seen a letter or symbol somewhere that was not in copyable text and wondered how to even go about searching for what it is called? https://shapecatcher.com/ Just draw the symbol you see and it will find Unicode symbols close to it. Very useful.
catbox.moe for image hosting and litterbox.catbox.moe for temporary image hosting. Throw them a few bucks if you do use their service and can spare it. It’s a cool little site.
I want to like it, but they block most of my vpn nodes so I can’t see half the content on the fediverse 😭
I use Shademap in winter to check where to go for sunlight and how long :)
Most of things I find are very niche interests so it’s not really useful for everyone to know about, but I wish it was easier to find niche communities for my interests to share these with.
https://retrogamecorps.com/ - has been amazing since I started getting into retro gaming last year.
https://mariushosting.com/docker/ - has been the site that got me into self hosting with my Synology NAS and I still use it as a resource regularly even though my docker containers are on a separate Debian server now.
https://ext.to/ - my go to torrent aggregator.
https://alexandrite.app/<your Lemmy instance> - has been the best desktop frontend for Lemmy that I’ve found.
https://drawabox.com/ - I’ve been getting back to trying to improve at sketching and this is one of the best resources I’ve found.
https://gp2040-ce.info/ - made it possible for me to make my own custom hitbox controllers for Street Fighter.
https://github.com/joe-scotto/scottokeebs/ - Joe Scotto’s resources helped me make my own macro pad and I want to make my own full keyboard next.
Thanks for the Draw A Box link I was in a similar mood.
It’s a lot of really random stuff. I go through a few sites now and again instead of doom scrolling and I always seem to find at least one really interesting or fun thing.
A lot of the personal project sites and just weird stuff feels like the old internet and it makes me happy
Seriously they have all the calculators.
I chose a site that is not posted on fmhy.
https://lostmediawiki.com/Home
https://evehibi.nekoweb.org/ringlink/info Webring Directory.
https://wikis.fandom.com/wiki/The_Wiki_Wiki
https://tournesol.app/ Free Youtube recommend service.
https://phiresky.github.io/isbn-visualization/
https://namelessrumia.heliohost.org/w/doku.php?id=start Personal Wiki familiar with CJK’s otaku culture.
https://rocksky.app/ decentralized music tracking service. (AT Protocol based)
ImgOps. Add
imgops.com/to any random image URL on the internet and get quick links to a bigger version, look it the source on SauceNAO, or search Google, Yandex, or TinEye. I always run art through ImgOps before posting here.https://cooljugator.com/ - website that helps with looking up word conjugation. Great for language learning, since a translation is sort of cheating and can lead you astray on meaning
https://www.timeanddate.com/ - super handy site for finding meeting times between time zones, looking up international calendars for holiday, etc
If you want to tie your shoes, Ian’s shoelace website.
Way too much in depth on a niche topic, but that’s why it’s so awesome
I have been seeing shoelace infographics since I was a teen on ifunny, and only 14 years later do I finally get to find out where its from!
I am happy to have participated in that connection.
This site needs more people to know about it (and it was only one guy called Iain MacDonald maintaining it. I think one other person joined him recently).
It’s called NewsMap. It’s a wall of headlines that updates over time. No distractions, no images and you can choose your region and the topics you want to see. The dude revived it after the original site went down for some reason a few years ago. Pretty cool, specially for my ADHD brain.
It’s super cool, if only it wasn’t pulling from Google exclusively.
So, correct me if I’m wrong by all means, but Google News is just the channel isn’t it? Right now I’m seeing content on there from a dozen different news organisations (BBC, Reuters, Sky News, The Guardian, The Telegraph etc.)
What’s the negative with it being conveyed via Google News?
It’s an aggregator but I have zero trust in Google to not be involved with subtle content manipulation and censorship. However it’s mostly out of principal. I deGoogled my life already, so using this would go against that stance.
https://www.puzzle-sudoku.com/
I’ve linked the sudoku page, but if you scroll down, there are dozens of other puzzles and they’re all well-implemented and free with plenty of customization options, difficulty levels, leader boards, etc. I patreoned the dev recently. He’s very responsive to any bugs, and considers, for example, a puzzle with multiple solutions to be a bug. He also adds new puzzles fairly regularly.
I’ll raise you with https://www.gmpuzzles.com/blog/tag/gas/ - lots and lots of human made sudokus and other puzzles. The link is for GAS (genuinely approachable sudokus)
These are actually blog posts that list such things:
A List Of Text-Only & Minimalist News Sites (Updated 2026)
No Logins Required: Alternative Interfaces To YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram
