Indieseek.xyz
A human-curated directory of the indie web, full of personal sites, forgotten pages and gateways into web rings.
indieseek.xyz
A smaller internet
Links for getting pleasantly lost
Sites that teach something, preserve oddities or remind us that the web can still be a place to explore rather than just a sequence of platforms.
This is neither a ranking nor an exhaustive directory. It is a notebook of places worth entering without knowing exactly what you will find.
01
Exploring a stranger web
The Useless Web
Press one button and be transported to a different, bizarre and delightfully useless website every time.
theuselessweb.com
Marginalia Search
An independent search engine designed to surface small, text-heavy sites far from the most commercial results.
marginalia-search.com
512KB Club
A collection of complete sites under 512 KB, and practical proof that the web does not have to be enormous.
512kb.club
Web Design Museum
A walk through the visual history of websites, applications, software and Flash games from the 1990s onward.
webdesignmuseum.org
Erowid
An archive of information about psychoactive substances, personal experiences and scientific research.
erowid.org
Cooking for Engineers
A comprehensive collection of recipes with step-by-step instructions, photos and tips for home cooks.
cookingforengineers.com
02
Code to understand and play with
wtfjs
A long collection of coercions, comparisons and other JavaScript behaviors that look invented but are not.
wtfjs.com
The Nature of Code
A book you can read entirely online about randomness, particles, cellular automata, fractals, evolution and other creative-coding wonders.
natureofcode.com
Explorable Explanations
A collection of interactive explanations where ideas are learned by changing parameters, experimenting and watching what happens.
explorabl.es
Nicky Case
Playable essays and small simulations about trust, systems, anxiety, memory and other things that resist static explanations.
ncase.me
Matrix Multiplication
An interactive visualizer that shows how matrix multiplication happens step by step.
matrixmultiplication.xyz
03
Languages
Ancient Greek Core Vocabulary
The 500 most common Ancient Greek words collected by Dickinson College: a concrete foundation for beginning to read.
dcc.dickinson.edu
TheMoeWay
A community guide to learning Japanese through immersion, reading, listening and practical tools, without miracle shortcuts.
learnjapanese.moe
04
Archives and other wonders
The Public Domain Review
Essays and collections built around some of the strangest, most beautiful and forgotten works in the public domain.
publicdomainreview.org
Radio Garden
Rotate the globe, stop over a city and listen to a radio station broadcasting there right now.
radio.garden
Library of Babel
A Borges-inspired digital library that contains, at least combinatorially, every possible page of text.
libraryofbabel.info