The Plot of the Phantom — 40 years later, Scott Andrew finished a text adventure game he started making at age 14 #

MMOndrian, multiplayer Mondrian editor — click to change colors, resize the lines, or zoom out to see the whole thing #

Pathfinder — explore the space between two concepts, try dragging them on top of each other (via) #

Internet Archive updates GifCities, their GeoCities animated GIF search engine — now with semantic search and size filters #

Wiki Radio — random sounds uploaded to Wikimedia Commons (via) #

The weird zombie existence of The Family Circus — nearly every comic is now recycled from decades-old strips, with minor updates like changing TVs, cameras, and adjusting for inflation (via) #

The Pudding’s 30 minutes with a stranger — Alvin Chang visualizes the results of a 2023 study pairing hundreds of strangers in video calls and tracking how their moods change (via) #

Stochastic Drum Machine — drum machine with probabilities deciding whether a sample is played or not, part of the 10,000 Drum Machines project #

Dr. Demento retiring this October after 55 years — his show ended radio syndication in 2010, but he's continued broadcasting online weekly for the last 15 years #

How Muppets Go Outside — Alex Boucher breaks down the various imaginative ways Jim Henson and friends hid themselves #

Pet Names — our new card game is live on Kickstarter, a game about making cute nicknames that comes in a custom plush fox mini-bag we designed #

WeatherStar 4000+ — live 1990s-style TV weather forecast recreated on the web, complete with scanlines and cheesy music #

Engadget reviews the first week of Playdate’s Season 2 — two great new games, and Blippo+ is a delightfully unexplainable experience #

Recreating Edward Hooper’s Nighthawks with uDraw for the Wii — Cat Graffam continues to torture herself with obscure drawing tools on old gaming systems for our entertainment #

Tiny Awards 2025 nominations are now open — after a year away, I'm returning as a judge for my favorite little internet award, along with a bunch of my favorite internet people #

Every 5×5 Nonogram — 600k of 25 million Picross puzzles have been solved so far, with 1,400 people currently playing (via) #

Glitch to end web app hosting on July 8 — for over eight years, it was a powerful educational tool and playground for web experimentation #

Bedtime Thoughts — Bad Lip Reading turns in another Star Wars musical gem, alongside "Bushes of Love" and "Seagulls! (Stop It Now)" #

Little Dig Game — dig up little planets in a relatively short clicker game (via) #

Leftover Pasta — charming student film from this year's CalArts Character Animation Program #

Neal.fun’s Internet Roadtrip — multiplayer street view where everyone votes on where to go, changing the radio station, and honking the horn #

One Million Chessboards — inspired by his One Million Checkboxes project, Nolen Royalty made a chaotic chess MMO with no waiting between turns #

Primer, an introduction to oscilloscope music — "what you see is what you hear!" the left and right audio channels control the beam on the X and Y axis, respectively #

Hypertext TV — the handmade web presented as scheduled daily programming across nine channels, go add some more #

a cursor is a kite — desktop browsers only, try Las Vegas if where you are isn't very windy right now #

Back to a Website — Homestar Runner celebrates 25 years online with an ode to the days when the internet wasn't "the same four websites on your phone" #

Spending 30 days in the nearly-empty virtual world of There.com — I wrote about There a year before its 2003 launch and didn't know it's still kicking with a tiny tight-knit community of about 30 players #

Why is there a “small house” in IBM’s Code Page 437? — incredible deep dive into a "not serious" mystery of computer history, with a detour into ZZT and the ASCII art scene (via) #

SNAKISTS — twenty Snake variations from Pippin Barr, a sequel to SNAKISMS from 2017 #

xkcd’s Push Notifications — xkcd's annual belated April 1 project plays with browser push notifications #

Comic Sans Maps — finally #

allow.webcam — if you grant webcam permission, it'll snap a photo and show you a collage of everyone else who agreed before you #

monkeys.zip — adopt a few monkeys and see if they write Shakespeare (via) #

CSS Clicker — incremental game themed around making a website, made entirely in HTML/CSS without JS #

Infinite Mac can now emulate early OS X — Mihai also added a bunch of new old software to the Infinite HD library to play with #

Selfie Shuffle — slide the blocks to unscramble your face #

the html review 04 — my favorite internet journal put out a fourth issue of experimental web writing (via) #

PoetiCal — experimental poetry project published exclusively through iCalendar files and read in your calendar app (via) #

Any Map Puzzle — turn any location into a sliding tile puzzle (via) #

Improved Relative Time — I was born 13BWWW (Before World Wide Web), Waxy.org was started in 4AB (After Blog) #

Invisiclues.org — new Infocom fan site with a bunch of great details, including interactive status bar, playable Infocomics, a deep article archive, and very good 404 page (via) #

Columboxd — finally, a site to track and review episodes of Columbo (via) #

Turning real-time Wikipedia edits in an Asteroids-inspired arcade cabinet — you can play it yourself at asteroids.wiki #

Onomatopoeia Odyssey — The Pudding's Vivian Li compares our words for animal sounds between languages #

715-999-7483.com — Brian Moore made a website anyone can change by calling a phone number, what could go wrong? #

Type Help — very clever Twine-based murder-mystery inspired by deduction games like Her Story and Return of the Obra Dinn (via) #

Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian team up to relaunch Digg — I'm skeptical, but it'd be hilarious if Reddit users migrated back to Digg after a series of community-hostile decisions (via) #

Binocular Shot — a hyper-specific collection of movie clips with binocular POVs depicted as two overlapping circles (via) #

wide emoji maker — long 🐈 is long (via) #

Analyzing nearly 2,000 Oscar speeches to see who winners thanked the most — the only person thanked more than God was Peter Jackson in the 2000s #