Ask Lemmy

https://wiby.me/surprise/

It takes you to a random web 1.0 site that has somehow survived all this time.

And it led me to this site, a public voice-mail:

https://afterthebeep.tel/#3EXp

This page on how mechanical watches work with really snappy interactive 3d bits that let you "feel" how the parts do their thing. And the dozens of other articles on other topics also on the site

https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/

mediaplate.au

I've been using it as my homepage. It allows you to search Google and other engines without AI summaries, it gives you your IP address and just enough weather info without being obtuse, it loads quickly, and has a timer, stopwatch, scratchpad and conversion table for imperial to metric ect.

https://p2r3.github.io/convert/

convert anything to anything, make excel file into pdf, 3d print the bee movie. no more rules

Does Lemmy count?

According to the people in my office nobody knows about archive.org and I think it's pretty cool.

http://192.186.0.168/

edupad.ch

Write collaboratively without account or registration. Just start a pad and send the link to your collaborators.

https://www.parapluesch.de/whiskystore/test.htm

(don't mind the URL, I don't know, I can't tell you why, but it leads to the game)

PARAPLÜSCH! The psyciatry ward for abused cuddlytoys!! It's such a sweet and at the same time disturbing game (I recommend playing on PC, not smartphone)

(You can select a number of languages, though it is originally german)

I wouldn't say unknown, as it's a staple of the shortwave and ham radio communities, but websdr.org is a place where people stream software defined radio feeds from around the world. It's not like a traditional internet radio station where you have an audio stream of a single station. You pick an SDR server hosted by a volunteer, and then you're given a frequency input, modulation selection, and waterfall display as though you were listening to an actual shortwave radio.

I know it's well-known because Eastern European stations were swamped during Russia's initial invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Streaming radio from around the world: Radio Garden

Best language lessons short of full immersion: Language Transfer

turnmeintoagirl.com is a greatwebsite for all those transfems that still dont know they are trans.

If you're a Tool fan, there is 20+ years of blog about them, he recently "stopped updating" it, but it's a treasure trove of history on the band: https://toolshed.down.net/

Every noise at once - https://everynoise.com/

Wikipedia article.

It's still usable, and the Spotify playlists are still there. If you like exploring music styles, this is for you. Warning, time will disappear.

https://www.merzo.net/main.htm

A Museum of Speculative Fiction inspired Spaceships

Sadly it is no longer being updated.

https://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/

This one's is pretty fun for breaking news when you want all the sources

beholder.news

https://donandmikewebsite.com/

Paint Your Bald Spot

...back when the radio was cool

192.168.0.4

Best I can do is https://piclog.blue/

despite being promoted on reddit quite a few times, nobody knows about lemmy. early on when reddit was banning on the explicit subs, some of us fled to an international forum that looks reddit, its relatively unknown, but it was discusisng "illicit stuff" i think it was an obscure canadia/EU sites, so the US cant force it to close down, sadly most of the people dispersed from that community long time ago.

another one as of recently is because of reddit bans, people fled to a forum that discuss how to evade it, and how they were banned from reddit.

https://thewebb.io/

Its an LLM trained exclusively on the Epstein files, 9/11 archive and publicly available FBI documents. Every answer comes with like 10-20 Epstein filer links to prove or disprove a theory. Their free option is shit, but for like 20$ a month, it helps me make sense of all the videos out there.

https://internet.nl/ that tests a bunch of security related things and gives your server a score. Great for checking a few more boxes.