Category: Interactive Visual Websites

Some of the websites turn scrolling into something closer to reading a comic book or watching a slow reveal. That’s the exact thing behind scrollytelling examples, where pages move with your mouse wheel or swiping your trackpad actually changes what happens on screens, instead of just moving the text-related content….

Net art is a specific branch of internet art made to exist inside the browser, using the hyperlink and the raw structure of a webpage as the medium rather than just showing a photo or a painting. Some writers use the word web art interchangeably, usually referring to the original…

Browser toys are small, no-install web experiments built purely to be poked at. It’s not finished. Unlike other games, there is no score, no ending, and no menu. You open a tab, and something will come and respond to your mouse. People search for them because sometimes you want 5…

Userbars were small rectangular graphics that forum members added to their websites to show a fandom, hobby, interest, or part of their identity. This usually came in 350×19 pixels, combined with a small image and short, bold, pixel-style text inside a thin border. People collected them, traded them, and displayed…

If you’re looking for interesting websites to explore, these 25 websites are worth exploring and offer something different from the other side of the internet. This includes interactive websites, digital art, browser experiments, visualizations, internet archives in the indie web, and something unusual projects that give you a reason to…

An oekaki board is a forum that allows visitors to draw directly inside their browser and post the sketch straight to the gallery even without downloading any software. The word oekaki comes from a Japanese term oekaki, which means simply drawing or doodling. These were casual sketch spaces, not polished…

Webzines are self-published online magazines built and edited like magazines rather than traditional-style blogs, and interestingly, they existed years before blogging became the internet’s default way to publish. Inspired by photocopied print zines, they brought the same DIY spirit to the early internet, using the World Wide Web (WWW) to…

The Handmade Web describes websites built by one person by hand, without using a template or modern AI systems. It names both a design philosophy and a real moment in the earliest internet history: the mid-to-late 1990s, when the early internet was small enough that a single personal website felt…

Hypertext fiction is a story built from linked chunks of text rather than a single fixed sequence of pages. Readers have a choice to click, and the path they take shapes what the story actually means. It exists because of computer technology and couldn’t be created in printed books. A…

A website shoutbox is a small embedded chat box that lets visitors post short, real-time messages on a website’s home page or inner pages. It became one of the most common ways for visitors to communicate with website owners in the mid 2000s. Services like Cbox and ShoutMix provided millions…

A Now Page is a page on a personal website that is usually placed at the URL or Slug /now that answers a specific question, like what is this person focusing on right now? Where is this person located or travelling? Unlike the polished tone of a personal website, a…

Somewhere between the hit counter and the webring badge, there used to be a small box at the bottom of everyone’s personal websites, and they asked them to do one thing: to prove that they had actually visited. That box was called an internet guestbook, and for most of a…

If you’ve ever typed “Physics simulation” in Google at night, 10:00 PM, with no goal other than curiosity, you’ve probably landed on pages built for students. You can find a dropdown menu, a textbook diagram, or maybe a “ready” button with no meaningful context. Useful if you already know what…

A single-serving site is a website that has only one page and one domain. That’s it, nothing more. This post explores the best single-serving websites that still work today — sites that were never built to do anything useful, and have survived anyway. In 1994, a software engineer named Jeff…

You have nine tabs open right now. Sometimes it’s twelve. One of them is playing something soft, rain maybe, or the low hum of a coffee shop you’ve never been to. You haven’t looked at it for fifty minutes. That tab is doing more work for you than the other…