The Internet is a strange place. Lately it’s become synonymous with poor mental health and misinformation and general doom and despair. It feels like you have to sift through a lot of garbage before you find content that is informative, interesting, or even fun. Which is a real shame, because a global communication network is a miraculous piece of technology! Fortunately, there are some people still trying to use the Internet as a force for good, so today I wanted to share some of their efforts.
Emmymade - https://www.youtube.com/@emmymade
Emmy’s YouTube channel is one I’ve been watching for years and years, and her videos have only improved in quality. They are primarily about cooking and baking, usually from viral recipes to see if they’re really any good. She also reviews premade food products and shares her miscellaneous creative projects. I like her videos because she thoroughly explains every step of her process and explains how you could do it at home if you wanted to. If you don’t, though, it’s still satisfying to watch Emmy do it—she talks about her creative adventures with so much enthusiasm and technical knowledge that you feel like you are spending time with a very intelligent friend.
One Day You’ll Find Yourself - https://www.onedayyoullfindyourself.com/table-of-contents.html
Subtitled “Select advice from your uncle in the big city,” this website is a collection of tips for everyday situations. The entries are short and often humorous, and they cover a wide range of topics. Some of the advice assumes that the reader is a young man, but most of it is applicable to anybody, such as not rehearsing an argument beforehand so that you don’t arrive pre-angered. It also ranges from fairly obvious things (covering your mouth when you yawn, keeping your feet off of other people’s furniture) to etiquette that you might never have had to consider before, like entering a revolving door or eating with an array of fancy silverware. It’s also a “live book,” so the author adds new tips from time to time.
neal.fun – https://neal.fun/
Created by programmer and game designer Neal Agarwal, this website is a collection of short browser games he’s made. Many of them are educational, like The Deep Sea, in which the user scrolls down a very long webpage that illustrates the sheer size of the ocean and what creatures live at different levels of depth. There’s also Internet Artifacts, a history slideshow of the Internet. Just-for-fun games include Wonders of Street View, in which you are sent to a random and unique location on Google Street View. (When I clicked it while writing this, I was taken to a giant rocking chair in Illinois, a view of a parrot nest in New Zealand, and then an airplane garage in Kenya.) Absurd Trolley Problems, Let’s Settle This, and Internet Roadtrip are also favorites of mine.
Should See This - https://shouldseethis.com/
Similar to neal.fun, this website is a collection of games and oddities, but
rather than being from one developer it’s been curated from different corners
of the internet. I’ve used Should See This to find a lot of interesting and
useful websites, like A Good Movie to Watch, which can help you decide what to
watch by filtering streaming services and moods. I recently discovered MyFridgeFood,
which recommends recipes based on the ingredients you have in your fridge. Niche
tools like these, maintained by strangers because they thought other people could
use them, are my favorite thing about the Internet. I encourage you to explore
this database and find some new bookmarks.
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