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A collection of my favorite quirky, funny, and wonderfully weird websites from the old internet (plus a couple of modern gems). Click the banners or names to explore!

Note: Some of these classic sites have vanished from the live web over the years, so I’ve linked to their preserved versions on the Internet Archive where needed.

Contents

Creative Hobbies

Cattail’s Origami Page

Fun page with animated origami models. My favorite is the Kawasaiki Rose animation.

How to Care for Your Pet Rock

WikiHow’s instructions for naming, feeding, housing, and throwing parties for your very own pet rock.

Retro Games

Snood Party 2000

Archived page celebrating a theme party, where the theme was the classic puzzle game Snood.

Dinosaur Dracula

A weird nostalgia site full of 80s/90s monster toys, Halloween countdowns, and retro pop-culture.

Resurrecting Tennis for Two

A 2008 project resurrecting “Tennis for Two”, the first video game in history!

Weird & Wonderful Hoaxes

Save The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

A satirical site that “saves” the fictional Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus.

How to Make a Tin Foil Hat

WikiHow’s silly guide to crafting your own tin-foil hat for family fun and conspiracy-proofing.

Mathematical Curiosities

Mathematics Humor

Prof. Myron Hlynka’s collection of mathematics jokes and funny stories from the University of Windsor.

Futility Closet

A delightful collection of puzzles.

Hexaflexagons

An website all about hexaflexagons. Hexaflexagons are paper folding toys that flip and twist.

The Scutoid

Wikipedia page on the scutoid, a brand-new 3D geometric shape discovered in 2018 that cells actually use to pack together.

Acme Klein Bottle

Cliff Stoll’s handcrafted glass Klein bottles. Klein bottles are a sort of topological shape that twists into itself.

Languages & Ancient Scripts

Sumerian Language Page

John Alan Halloran’s archive of articles about everything Sumerian.

Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL)

Hundreds of real ancient Sumerian poems, myths, and stories with English translations.

Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative

The world’s largest digital archive of real ancient cuneiform tablets, with high-resolution photos.

Linku.la Toki Pona Dictionary

The community-built dictionary for Toki Pona.

Omniglot

The encyclopedia of writing systems and languages of the world. I love this because I love obscure writing systems.

Historical Arts

Wiktenauer Historical Fencing Manuscripts

A huge free library of swordfighting treatises and manuscripts.

18th Century Material Culture Resource Center

A collection of slideshows of everyday 18th-century artifacts, clothing, tools, weapons, and objects from North America and Europe.

Fan Sites

Vader Maker Australia

DIY guide to building your own homemade Darth Vader costume.

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