Ten Websites To Visit When You're Bored
- Grayson Goldberg
- 7 hours ago
- 4 min read
We all get bored every once in a while, probably because each and every generation has a shorter and shorter attention span. A great way to achieve that boost of Dopamine quickly is to look at an interesting website. So here’s a compiled list of my personal favorites.
Neal.fun is a cool little website that has lots of mini-games and cool informational pages. Most famous for the mini-game “*The Password Game,” a game where you have to make a password, but the requirements for the password progressively get harder and more ridiculous (e.g: The atomic numbers of the elements in your password must add up to 200). However, the other pages include: baby map, spend Bill Gates’ money, progress, paper, speed, life checklist, where does the day go?, who was alive?, dark patterns, share this page, the size of space, the deep sea, life stats, printing money, the auction game, universe forecast, SELL! SELL! SELL!, let’s settle this, Earth reviews, absurd trolley problems, design the next iPhone, wonders of street view, draw a perfect circle, asteroid launcher, space elevator, internet artifacts, infinite craft, stimulation clicker, internet roadtrip, I’m not a robot, and size of life. Overall, Neal.fun provides a lot of fun stuff for your boring moments.
Window Swap is a fun website that allows you to see views from different windows around the world. You can even create an account and set up your own recording of your window to share with the world! The website is free, but has a lot of features blocked behind a $5 per month fee. However, if you post your window videos and pay for the subscription, you are able to get tips from viewers. Overall, Window Swap is a cool little website for when you want a new view.
Radio Garden is a very interesting website that has access to thousands of live, on-air radio stations around the world. Want to listen to opera in Sydney and then a talk show in Greenland? You can do it on Radio Garden! To access them, simply move around the globe and select a city (represented by green dots) you would like. Then simply press the partially translucent bar on the left to access all available radio stations in that city. Finally, just listen! Radio Garden also has the ability to save your favorite channels, give you assorted playlists of different channels to listen to, give you a “hot air balloon ride” to any radio station in the world for you to listen to, and the option to directly search through a search bar. Overall, Radio Garden is a cool website that you definitely should use if you ever want to listen to some international music.
Patatap is a small musical website that allows you to play sound effects by simply pressing keys A-Z and the spacebar. Each key (and each section on screen for touch screen users) is assigned to a different short sound and small animation that plays. That’s it! Just like many other small musical websites, such as Patatap, you can create good mini songs if you have a good sense of music. Overall, Patatap is a cool little music-making website.
Thisissand is a very entertaining website for any aspiring sand artists. You simply click “PLAY NOW” and then click in your blank canvas to release sand from your cursor (you can hold down to release a steady stream of sand). To change the color of your sand, you simply press the circular colored button on the top right and select a color to use. Some people can make beautiful pieces of art using the sand, such as the eye shown above, but I stick to my 2D pyramids. All in all, Thisissand is a really cool website to play with.
100,000 Stars is an amazing website that shows exactly what it says: a detailed look at about a hundred thousand stars in the Milky Way. Stars that have been extensively researched by scientists have their own individual info menus. Very beautiful and educational website if you want to learn about stars!
Eel slap! is exactly what it sounds like. You use your cursor to control an eel that slaps a guy. It’s pretty cool!
Pointer Pointer is a cool website that finds and displays a photo of a person (or people) pointing at where your mouse cursor is located on screen. It’s pretty impressive how accurate the points are! Just a warning that most of the pictures seem to have been taken at late 90’s and early 2000’s parties, so watch out for people with red eyes!
Zoomquilt is a very impressive website that houses an infinitely zooming image that is slightly nauseating. You start off in a dystopian city, which leads to fields, which leads to a forest with hobbit holes and mythical creatures, which then leads to another forest with trees with faces, which then leads to a Spanish-looking city with humanoid aliens, which then leads inside a creature's mouth and into a medival city, which then circles right back to the start.
Zoomquilt 2 is even more impressive than the first Zoomquilt! We start on a barren planet with a weird troll guy, then we go through a hole to a floating grass island with medieval cities, then we go into a wasteland world with odd mythical creatures, which then leads to a destroyed castle with lots of aliens, which then leads to a European city with dragons fighting in the sky, which then leads to a snake monster’s lair, which then leads into a movie theater showing a movie of a city getting destroyed by a monster, which then leads to a cheese city, which then leads to a city being destroyed by a pink creature, which then goes through the ground to a house with a race track, which then goes through a billboard into what seems like Hell, or Dimension X from Stranger Things, which then leads into an industrial building labled “sin,” which then leads to space, and it finally loops right back to the start.
I hope these websites will help cure your boredom just like mine! But please, don’t use these in class!
