Simple Repeata site that has a bunch of simple free and slightly customisable repeating patterns. i used this for the background check pattern

kaomoji.ruthe classic kaomoji site

blinkie makersimple blinkie maker

blinkie maker but in-depthhaven't used this because it's for more detailed blinkies. looks really good though

simple-ish blinkie maker?this one lets you make different sizes and is more in-depth than the first site, but less than the previous link

cutekawaiiresourcesjust has some nice gifs etc

Online Image Editoran easy to use editor that is good for work with gifs

Text Color Fadera really nice html code generator for gradient text

ASCII Generator Sitethis one's great

GifCitiesarchive.org's gif index. basically a whole lot of gifs from different geocities sites. when you click on a gif, it takes you to the source site, which is amazing not gonna lie

W3 Schoolsyeah i know everyone has this linked but with good reason. this site was my lifeline. a less-discussed part is if you go to any code-test section of the site, you can just replace the code with anything and test out html/css snippets easily lol

tenshiikisu's resourcesa collection of 500+ pixel backgrounds, tile backgrounds, anime scenery backgrounds and gifs, and gradients. i didn't use any, but it's a good source nonetheless

Image Map Generatorif you wanna make an image map you probably already did a google search and found this but hey. may as well link babey

HTML Character Encodera little more niche but if you ever need to paste html into places where it doesn't accept html characters (such as brackets, etc), this converts them to the plaintext equivalents that won't set off html's complaining (necessary for filling userboxes with html code)

Userbox Generatoruserboxes :)

Guide to Flexboxactually indispensable when you're neck deep in flexboxes and fighting for your life. literally a liferaft for me (boat crashed into div iceberg)

Dither Me Thisa dither generator; make images look cool and dotty (and smaller in file size)

HTML Cheat Sheetuseful site for various uses of HTML; also just fun to look through

MDN Help Docs: HTMLmore up to date than w3 schools, and probably better to use. however, you can't use the code previews to test code :) (but yeah overall probably use this for in-depth help and better practices after glancing through w3 schools)

remove.bga very easy-to-use site that automatically removes backgrounds from an image. good for a fake-transparent png, or an image on a white background. literally just ctrl+v it while on the page. you don't get a hq image, but it's really easy to use if in a pinch. i notice that on firefox, you can't right-click-copy the transparent image; try using remove.bg on chrome (rare chrome w), because you can simply copy your new image without downloading it

Name Nerds: Least Favourite Namesthis is just great to look through it's basically people just roasting names for the most asanine (and sometimes fair) reasons. for example: "Adrian: just seems wimpy to me." what. what does that mean

Petition to Ban Basil (the herb)i don't know how i found this but i agree. basil sucks

noclip.websitea site that has a whole lot of maps from video games that you can explore at your leisure

Horse Namesgod there are some good horse names out there. "awesome wild one". "not exactly monday". "visa mastercard".

Listen to Wikipediabasically every time a page is edited/created, a note plays. surprisingly good background noise

ギャル文字一括変換装置if you know japanese, this one's for you. basically, converts typed text into gyaruspeak. so ビーンです -> ｔ″─･/τ″す. i don't know how gyaru in the 90s survived wtf is that i love it

Pokemon Battle Revolution Announcer Soundboardlove this guy's passion. love his fire. wish i had him narrate my daily life

The Death Generatorchoose a video game textbox style and blast your friends with fake screenshots

JoJo's Bizarre Comparisonsa site showing the original and bluray version of the anime side-by-side to highlight all of the changes (which there are many of)

Name All Pokemonself explanatory. good luck.

DON'T YOU LECTURE ME WITH YOUR THIRTY DOLLAR WEBSITEa site where you can use meme sounds to make music

Taiko Webplay taiko no tatsujin online hell yeah (but trying to read the menus actualyl game me a headache holy hell. if you have dyslexia maybe close your eyes and listen to pick a song because lmao) nvm the site is gone!!! hate copyright!!!!

leaf.comleaf.com

Yvette's Bridal Formalabsolutely insane. to anyone with a website, i ask: why isn't yours this good? (ironically) (unironically)

Browser MSPaint:o

404 Page Foundarchived old websites

anonymous animalthis is a neocities-hosted site, but no button so i'll put it here. this was...an experience. not saying that like a negative, or like it was bizarre or etc etc. just. kinda. sweet, i guess. i actually did not know that this site operated on a schedule; when i clicked, it must've been XX:00:01 o'clock, because it started right as i came in. it was nice. come here with an internet friend on the hour; it'll be sweeter.

Guess my worda daily word guessing game where you are told whether the word is alphabetically before or after your guess

Magnet poetrywhat it says on the tin; fun to kill time with

Emoji Kitchenyou can find some really fun combinations here

Pokemon Fusion Calculatorin the same vein as above, the best ones are the fusions that are bespoke and created by hand; most are very creative

SANDTRISso satisfying to play...i am as bad at this as normal tetris but the Particles make it nice to look at

CSS-Only Horizontally spinning ratCSS-Only Horizontally spinning rat

Pokemon Fossil Museuma virtual 3d tour of a the japan national museum of natura and science from when it was exhibiting pokemon fossils during a pokemon event! cute as hell

Electric Zine Makera fun little tool to make printable zines!

Publicnotea site that uses a shared "password system" to store notes; basically, type in a group of letters, and open the note there. used to be some fun stuff on here :) however, it's fallen to griefing (i think ?) so it's mostly completely barren. was fun a little while ago though. mostly just a very neat concept

Derivetykinda like a wordle, but you are given an "original word", and guess a word by its etymology. fun concept

Games Fashion Archivesee models of outfits from a few games! nice reference material, even if there aren't that many models (as of now? not sure it's updating. fun either way)

School Idol Tomodachiservice terminated :( however, was (and still is) fun to browse through the cards, even if just for art/outfit inspiration

Badass of the Weeka still-updating (?) site that catalogues people who have done some pretty cool things

A-aaaAaAAAa-othe best conlang, improved. i love when people use linguistics and language for evil.

Fontemona game, but embedded in a font. insane.

C82a collection of beautiful data visualisations. favourites are werner's nomenclature of colors and british and exotic minerology

Recieved or Received?a whole-ass site. highkey helpful; never heard of the 'I've' strat before and it helps a bunch

eli's postmark collectiona collection of postmarks! very beautifully presented; i enjoy collections and this is very fun to look through

eli's IC Card collectionsame eli as above, but this time, a japanese ic card collection

Where's George?track any american bill that has been loaded into the site

Knottinghamcreate any knot and see its topological designation

Famima!! American Sitean archived copy of the old site for when Family Mart, the Japanese convenience store chain, tried expanding to america. really fun showcase of how fun (and barely-useable) old sites could be

TT2020an amazing typewriter-esque font that has letter variation etc. reading through the 'about' section is also fun

GUIdebooka (pretty old) site that has a collection of guis over time that you can look through

the speech accent archivehas a lot of recordings of a lot of accents. good if you want to learn an accent for fun, or just for browsing

World Atlas of Light Pollution/Artifical Sky Brightnessfind stargazing spots near you! (there are none there are none there are none)

Dictionary of Obscure Wordsthis whole site is great but this section specifically, especially so

Chemical compounds present in foodit's interesting looking through what two completely different seeming foods share compounds and therefore have a chance of tasting pretty okay together. for example, chocolate and avocados share quite a few, so in theory might taste good. i hate avocado and wouldn't dare ruin chocolate with is, but if you like them, maybe try this combo i guess. soy sauce and peaches is also an interesting combo lol. who's brave raise your hand

The Pathology Guythis has a lot of pages, mostly medical based, but some of my favs are actually the chess variants and the words and phrases coined by shakespeare pages, funnily enough

Globe with fossil discovery locationsbasically, theres a globe of the earth that you can select a time period for. it will show up as it was back then. you can also type in a location and it will list fossils discovered nearby so you can see what dinosaurs lived around you

Prehistoric Wildlifeehehehe...dinosaurs...cool...

Library of Babelbasically, every single combination of letters generated. every possible written thing is already present here. this is the "an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters will eventually compose one of shakespeare's works" saying, but real

Digital Giza3d virtual tour of the pyramids

Multilingual Folk Tale Databaseglobal fairy tales sorted by general category. interesting to see the commalities, and also fun to try to find one using the system.

COVID-19 Signage Archivean archive of gathered signs found re: covid. cool collection, can really look into some of it lol

Epic Sports Information Pagesalthough this site is a store, there are some interesting pages on history and glossaries re: sports. i've linked a random one, but there are more around the site. hope it never updates to become more modern and boring lol

ImportYetican search by company and see a breakdown of where this company sources their materials and products.

The True Size Of...can move around countries on a mercator projection of the world to see what their sizes would actually be in comparison to other countries

Japan 1914 - 1918i don't think this belongs here (more so that i think i need another page to show links like this) but this is a really nice collection of photos taken in japan in the early 20th century. i love seeing daily life photos from so long ago like this; it's really humanising and sweet

Calculus Made Easyhaven't read through too much of this, but from what i have seen, it really does explain the concepts really well, in a way that makes it satisfying to understand calculus. keeping it here in case...one day...

Auslan Signbanka searchable dictionary for words of auslan (australian sign language). there are probably ones like this for other signed languages, but for obvious reasons (australian) this is the one i've found. now, i don't actually know auslan, but, one day perhaps,

Glottologa databank of (pretty much) every single language. click on one to see detailed info, including (the best part) a list of papers and books mentioning the language. more so useful for smaller languages, such as indigenous languages of australia, etc

Universal Hint Systemthis is a site with spoiler free walkthroughs, for if you get stuck in a game but still wanna work out how to progress without being told what to do

Tip of My Tonguefind words you can't remember

Writing Exercisesmaybe i can finally write some more, huh

Dark Pattern Gamesan aggregate rankingish site of games by negative traits to do with addiction-promoting elements

Ezn's Guide to Writing (Fan)Fictiona genuinely amazing resource for writing advice. has a my little pony focus, but can be used for anything. also i appreciate the commitment to the bit of having it look a google doc right down to the favicon despite not even being an uploaded pdf. top scores for presentation

This to Thatwanna attach something to something else but don't know what adhesive will work? here you go

Mini Lesson: Punctuating Interrupted Dialoguedoesn't have everything, but a nice guide to have on hand

Tumblr Tag List Generatorscrapes through a tumblr blog of your choice to find every tag used on it (if you want to; there are other parameters and ways this can be used. i just found it useful to find every tag i've ever used on my blog for nostalgia purposes)

AlternativeTohaven't really used it myself (because i'm more of an "open search engine -> "[software] + reddit" kinda person) but a site that lets you find rec'd alternative software to things like photoshop, etc, that you would probably want to find alternatives to