A useless website does one thing, usually something nobody asked for, and does it with total commitment. That's the whole appeal. You don't learn anything, you don't buy anything, and five minutes later you're still clicking. This is the useless web at its best: classic sites people have been passing around for years, plus a few that carry on the tradition.
Every site here is free and needs no sign-up, and each link was opened and checked before it went on this page. When you've worked through the list, the button on the home page will keep the useless websites coming.
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The useless websites
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Pointer Pointer (opens in new tab)
pointerpointer.com
Move your mouse, stop, and it finds a photo of someone pointing right at your cursor.
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Eel Slap (opens in new tab)
eelslap.com
Drag your mouse across the screen to slap a man in the face with an eel.
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Cat Bounce (opens in new tab)
cat-bounce.com
Cartoon cats bounce all over your screen. Click to make them bounce harder.
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Paper Toilet (opens in new tab)
papertoilet.com
An endless roll of toilet paper. Drag down to unroll it, forever.
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Is It Christmas? (opens in new tab)
isitchristmas.com
Answers one question in giant letters. On most days of the year, the answer is NO.
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Checkbox Race (opens in new tab)
checkboxrace.com
Tick 100 checkboxes as fast as you can, then see your finishing time.
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One Square Minesweeper (opens in new tab)
onesquareminesweeper.com
Minesweeper shrunk down to a single square. One click and the game's over.
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Hacker Typer (opens in new tab)
hackertyper.net
Mash any keys and watch convincing movie-style hacker code pour onto the screen.
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Can't Not Tweet This (opens in new tab)
cant-not-tweet-this.com
A page built around one big button that dares you to tweet it.
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Pug in a Rug (opens in new tab)
puginarug.com
A pug wrapped in a rug, with a timer counting how long you've been watching.
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Trash Loop (opens in new tab)
trashloop.com
Drag a crumpled paper ball into the bin and watch the bin throw it right back.
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Scream Into the Void (opens in new tab)
screamintothevoid.com
Get something off your chest and send it into the void, where nobody will ever hear it.
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Make Everything OK (opens in new tab)
make-everything-ok.com
Press one button and everything is officially OK now.
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Random Colour (opens in new tab)
randomcolour.com
One random color fills the whole screen. Refresh for another.
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I Has a Bucket (opens in new tab)
ihasabucket.com
A walrus. With a bucket. Captioned I HAS A BUCKET.
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Unicode Snowman for You (opens in new tab)
unicodesnowmanforyou.com
A single snowman character, ☃, presented just for you.
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Crouton (opens in new tab)
crouton.net
A photo of one crouton on a white background. Nothing else.
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The Salmon of Capistrano (opens in new tab)
salmonofcapistrano.com
Drag a cartoon salmon around the screen while a tune plays.
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Patience Is a Virtue (opens in new tab)
patience-is-a-virtue.org
A page that asks you to sit and wait, to test whether patience really is a virtue.
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Nyan Cat (opens in new tab)
nyan.cat
The Pop-Tart cat flies through space trailing a rainbow, with costume variants to choose from.
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Is My Computer on Fire? (opens in new tab)
ismycomputeronfire.com
Answers the question with a single deadpan word: no.
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Has the LHC Destroyed the World Yet? (opens in new tab)
hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com
Answers its own question about the Large Hadron Collider with one reassuring word: nope.
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Taco Spin (opens in new tab)
tacospin.com
A single taco, spinning in place. That's the whole site.
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Nope Horse (opens in new tab)
nope.horse
Whatever your question was, the answer here is no.
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Popcat (opens in new tab)
popcat.click
Click to make a cartoon cat pop its mouth open, with a running click counter.
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Bongo Cat (opens in new tab)
bongo.cat
Press keys on your keyboard to make a cartoon cat play bongos, cymbals, and more.
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Corn Dog on Corn Dog (opens in new tab)
corndogoncorndog.com
A photo of one corn dog lying on top of another corn dog.
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Sad Trombone (opens in new tab)
sadtrombone.com
One button, one sad trombone sound, ready for any small failure.
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Instant Rimshot (opens in new tab)
instantrimshot.com
Click for a comedy rimshot whenever someone tells a bad joke.
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Please Like (opens in new tab)
pleaselike.com
A like button you can click as many times as you want. A net art piece by Rafael Rozendaal.
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Noooooo (opens in new tab)
nooo.me
One button. Press it for Darth Vader's long, drawn-out NOOOOO.
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Purple Toilet (opens in new tab)
purpletoilet.com
A purple toilet. That's the whole website.
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OMFGDOGS (opens in new tab)
omfgdogs.com
Pixel dogs running across the screen with music, forever.
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Bees Bees Bees Bees (opens in new tab)
beesbeesbeesbees.com
A looping clip of Oprah cheering as bees fly into her audience.
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r33b (opens in new tab)
r33b.net
A one-page tribute to Futurama's Hypnotoad, drone sound included.
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What's My Starbucks Name (opens in new tab)
whatsmystarbucksname.com
Find out how a barista might misspell your name on a cup.
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Color Flip (opens in new tab)
colorflip.com
Peel away layer after layer of color in this Rafael Rozendaal piece.
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On and Off (opens in new tab)
onandoff.org
A Rafael Rozendaal piece that works like flipping a light switch.
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Centennial Light Bulb (opens in new tab)
centennialbulb.org
A live camera on a light bulb that has been burning since 1901.
How this list is made
Every site on this page was picked by Cedrick Reese and opened to check that it still works before it was added. A few famous useless websites didn't make the cut because their domains have expired or now redirect somewhere else entirely. If you find one here that's stopped working, report it through the contact page and it'll come off the list and out of the button's collection.