The absurdity never has limits and the internet is a prime example. Over the years, countless side pages, senseless and funny have landed on the net, and some of them are goodies too greedy to be neglected. Since the dawn of the days of the global network, man has always tried to dabble and dabble in the creation of sites that they had the sole purpose of amusing and surprising the user. Fortunately, this small form of art has not disappeared, on the contrary it has spread like wildfire, branching out into a series of variegated peculiarities so imaginative as to make the individual pages unique.
Absurd, original, funny, useful, useless or meaningless web pages, so in a word unmissable.
Strange sites for all tastes
Do you want to visit the depths of the sea but staying comfortably dry and sitting in an armchair? Do you want to make a worm dance or have Darth Vader support your indignation? No problem, we are here to offer you this and more. Here is a list of 10 of the most absurd sites that can be found in the wonderful universe of the web. Let's go and discover together some small attractions of this amusement park.
The Million Dollar Homepage
Let's start immediately with a web page that made internet history: The Million Dollar Homepage.
It all started in 2005, when the English student Alex Tew had the idea of creating a website with the purpose of pay for university studies. The idea was as simple as it was brilliant: the page was made up of exactly one million pixels and Tew decided to use it in its entirety. selling advertising space for one dollar a pixel, for a total profit of one million dollars. Despite not having media coverage, the notoriety of his site was spread through word of mouth. Its originality gave an immediate success to The Million dollar homepage, so much so that in a few months he managed to sell 99% of the space. The remaining pixels were auctioned for $ 38.100, awarding Tew a total income of $ 1.028.100. The result, in addition to an avalanche of money, is a colorful web page full of images that, through a link, lead back to the advertisers' sites.
Total cost of the operation for the young student: 50 euros.
We are sure that he has managed to pay for his studies abundantly.
Amazon Datings
Amazon Datings is a parody site where it is not possible buy a partner for a romantic date.
In the site they are present a series of cards that describe the main information of the partners that can be purchased. Each card contains name, age, photo, price and rating based on their behavior in previous appointments. There are all types and of the most varied ages. You can decide for $ 17 to go out with Mark, 33 years old and lover of philosophy, or for only 198 dollars you can meet Greta, 87 years old and an expert cook. It depends on your tastes.
The idea was born of Ani Acopian e Suzy Shinn who simply combined their two favorite passions: Amazon and dating. Thus they created one of the most bizarre and absurd sites of 2020.
The nice idea was born a few days before Valentine's Day, but now that summer is upon us, if you don't know who to share your holidays with, you can still pop into Amazon Dating and fantasize about shopping.
Quick Draw
Quick Draw is a online game developed by Google which challenges players to draw an object, while an artificial intelligence will have to guess what it is. The dynamics are very similar to that of the board game Pictionary. The computer will give you a word that can be as simple as 'sock' or more complicated, such as 'animal migration'. And it will be here that, using your artistic talent, you will challenge the artificial intelligence to find out what you are drawing. The sooner he responds, the better you have been.
Artificial intelligence learns from every drawing, thus increasing his ability to guess correctly in future games.
You don't need to be a good Giotto to play. Quick Draw, as the name implies, is not based on the precision of the drawing, but on the speed of its execution; you will in fact have a maximum time of 20 seconds to complete your work.
'Do things as simple as possible, but don't simplify,' Albert Einstein once said… he was probably playing Quick Draw.
Straggering Beauty
There are absurd sites created with the sole purpose of being fun. That they are totally useless is irrelevant.
It is the case of Staggering Beauty, a rather strange little web game that features a single screen where it is present a large black worm.
The nice character it will simply move in sync with the cursor movements.
That's all? You will say. 'Absolutely not!' we answer. Do you want to go on a psychedelic trip of a few seconds? Try clicking on the worm and quickly scrolling the mouse.
This action will trigger some strobe lights and pretty intense sounds ready to catapult you into a colorful delirium of notes and colors that not even the craziest of rave parties can afford.
Deep sea
Not all absurd sites keep functionality limited to entertainment. Deep Sea is a case in point.
Created by the young computer scientist Neal Argarwal, Deep Sea is a fascinating journey through the ocean depths to discover at what depths certain marine species live.
Furthermore, its functionality is very simple. Starting from the surface of the water, just slide the cursor down to enter the sea depths up to more than 10.000 meters and discover which wonderful and particular animals the ocean hides.
A very interesting little page, which turns your eyes towards the deep sea, catapulting you into a journey so abysmal that at times it is pleasantly unsettling.
Moral machine
Moral machine is an online platform developed by the group Scalable Cooperation. The platform is a research project that generates moral dilemmas and collects information on the decisions people make between two inevitably catastrophic outcomes.
The user will be virtually driving a car and, following a problem, he will have to decide the maneuver to be performed based on who decides to let survive: car passengers or pedestrians in front of him.
Passengers and pedestrians change with each simulation, presenting various categories including pregnant women, children or the elderly, making the ethical choice even more difficult. The game is as simple as it is useful: all the information will in fact be collected by the site to analyze the best solutions that they will have to face in the future self-driving vehicles.
Sentimental corp.
This site is for strong stomachs. It has achieved some of its notoriety because, despite the rawness of its content, it is the first site to appear on Google if you search for 'Sentimental corp'.
Created by the mysterious singer and video amateur Randy Prozac, legend has it that it is a site linked to the Illuminati sect. Be careful though, it is not easy to navigate in it. The site is in fact a maze of links, buttons and icons that will transport the user to the discovery of disturbing videos, some violent and very raw. Therefore we advise you to take a trip only if equipped with a lot of curiosity and a good liver. The site is mainly a concentrate of audio and video productions in which Randy Prozac manifests all his hatred for the American state and for social networks.
There are those who consider it a work of contemporary art, those who consider it the result a man who has reached madness and those who think it is all a joke; the fact is that many years have passed since its realization and, to date, it owes its notoriety to the halo of mystery that still surrounds it.
The Secret Door
Wouldn't you like to visit a French bistro sipping a coffee, but sitting comfortably at your desk? Or drink a rum in the worst bars in Caracas? No sooner said than done! Just go to the website of The Secret Door, click on the door and enter. The magical entrance is a passage ready to transform you into experienced virtual tourists in a tour that includes all the places that can be visited within Google wiev. In this way you will be able to go around the premises all over the world without getting up from your chair. An excellent idea to discover the particularities that distinguish these places, to broaden the mind… and to travel.
In any case, be ready for any eventuality, because the choice of the place to visit is not up to you: it decides the door.
Zoomquilt.org
A project by Nikolaus Baumgarten created in 2004 which was attended by a number of talented designers. The purpose of the site is let the user enjoy a very detailed drawing, taking advantage of the magnification technology that goes to 'zoom' a beautiful landscape full of details. Furthermore, programmers, connecting the initial part of the drawing with the final one, they created a potentially expandable image in an infinite loop. The success of the site has led the artists to create not only other drawings in the same style, but also an application for Android that allows you to use the drawing in loop as the background of your smartphone.
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Nooooooooooooooo.com
Have you reached such a high level of indignation that you cannot express it on your own? No problem! You can get help from Darth Vader.
The site consists of a simple button which, if clicked on purpose, will reproduce his heartbreaking scream of denial, great for fully expressing your mood.
The cry in question was taken from the Star Wars film, 'Return of the Jedi'. It was added during the restoration of the film, but the inclusion of this detail greatly altered the purists of the saga who, of course, are more linked to the original version, in which the scream was not present.
To conclude, you are outraged, Darth Vader is outraged and Star Wars fans are outraged. This seems like a great time to use the button.
The Usless Web
The useless web is a page where some of the most absurd sites on the net are periodically linked. The web pages in question must reflect only one main characteristic, namely be useful and useless at the same time. We're always talking about sites that are as bizarre, absurd and funny as we like them, but instead of having to chase them on the internet, The Usless web offers a wide range of curious pages ready to guarantee hours and hours of amusing wasted time. The site was founded in 1994 by Paul Phillips immediately experiencing such success that it was considered by the IT entrepreneur Marc andreessen 'one of the best websites'. Even the New York Times and the magazine Weird they devoted media coverage to the extravagant page.
Such a success that today, 26 years later, it still holds the record of most visited site in its category.
Of course, there are thousands of these absurd sites on the internet. So indulge yourself in their search and let us know if you have found something so epic as to be unmissable. However the web is beautiful because it is varied.
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