The Human Web

Open a new window somewhere in the world

Look out of a stranger's window somewhere in the world. Real people filmed the view from their homes. The calmest ten minutes you'll spend online today.

Sixty seconds in a park somewhere on Earth, then another. Volunteers filmed them all. Gloriously uneventful.

Explore live radio by rotating the globe.

Spin the globe, land on a green dot, hear what's playing on local radio right now. Try a small town you've never heard of.

Find shapes in the clouds! Join our cloudgazing community where everyone sees something different. Share your cloud discoveries.

Lying on the grass looking at clouds, translated to a browser tab. Proof the web can be slow on purpose.

Take selfies with traffic cameras! An anti-surveillance site by WTTDOTM.

Turns public traffic cameras into a photobooth. Funny, a little eerie, and a clever comment on being watched.

See current wind, weather, ocean, and pollution conditions, as forecast by supercomputers, on an interactive animated map. Updated every three hours.

Live winds, ocean currents and weather, animated across the whole planet. Built by one person. Leave it open as a screensaver.

Scroll down from the surface to the bottom of the ocean. Somewhere around 1,000 meters you'll stop joking.

The solar system to scale, which means a lot of scrolling through nothing. The text along the way is the best part. Keep scrolling.

Interactive visualization of technological history

Every human invention, connected to the ones that made it possible. Like a video game tech tree, except it's real.

Borges' infinite library, actually built. Every possible page of text already exists here, including this sentence.

The infinitely zooming image.

An endless zoom through hand-painted artworks by dozens of illustrators, stitched into one seamless dream.

A 30-minute interactive game about why people cooperate and why they stop. I've never forgotten it.

Interactive articles about science and engineering.

Interactive essays on how things work: cameras, GPS, mechanical watches. Each one takes months to make, and it shows.

Musicmap provides the ultimate genealogy of all popular music genres and combines any information regarding music genres, such as their relations, sociology, history and music examples, in one dynamic map, serving as both an educational tool and a framework for music databases.

A family tree of 200+ music genres with playable examples. Warning: you'll lose an evening.

Sandspiel is a falling sand game that provides a relaxing and creative place to play with elements like sand, water, plant, and fire. Enjoy on your phone, tablet or computer, and share your creations with your friends!

A falling-sand sandbox. Mix water, fire, plants and lava and watch them interact. Endlessly satisfying.

A tiny generative river by the same creator as Sandspiel. Quiet, strange, beautiful.

Draw with symmetrical, flowing silk. Impossible to make something ugly.

Exactly what it says. A love letter to drum machines, and you can play them.

A road trip the whole internet takes together, voting on every turn. Slow collective chaos, in the best way.

Marginalia Search is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies or subscribe to newsletters. The goal is to bring you the sort of grass fed, free range HTML your grandma used to write.

An independent search engine that prioritizes non-commercial, text-heavy sites. It uses no AI and is open source. Search anything and find the web you forgot existed.

Wiby is a search engine for older style pages, lightweight and based on a subject of interest. Building a web more reminiscent of the early internet.

A search engine for old-school, simple websites. Hit "surprise me."

Create and surf awesome websites for free.

Free hosting for personal homepages, GeoCities-style. Browse the sites people build there.

Hundred Rabbits is a software studio aboard a sailboat.

Two artists living on a sailboat, building their own tools for a low-power life, and documenting all of it.

This is the home of the Tiny Awards, which, since 2023, has celebrated the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web.

An annual award for the small, handmade web. Its finalist lists are where half of this collection came from, so go vote.