Pile #3 · Absolutely pointless
The most pointless websites on the internet, with one job and no reason to do it
A pointless website does exactly one thing and that thing achieves nothing. It answers a question nobody asked, or it spins a sandwich, or it wraps a small dog in a rug. There is no second feature. There is no upgrade path.
That makes them perfect for wasting time: nothing to learn, nothing to sign up for, nothing to finish. This list of pointless websites also holds a few things we built ourselves, including a loading screen that loads nothing and a button that gets increasingly upset when you press it. We consider them some of our finest work.
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One Million Checkboxes
RARE RELIC🗑 Pointlessest. 2024
A million shared checkboxes. The internet checked them all.
A giant grid of checkboxes that everyone on the internet shared at once. Strangers ticked them together until every single box was checked. You can still play with them alone.
Visit ↗ One Million Checkboxes (opens in a new tab)Details about One Million CheckboxesCommunityInteractiveCheckboxOrb.Farm
RARE RELIC🌀 Weird
A tiny aquatic ecosystem you nurture in a glass orb.
Build a little underwater world out of sand, water, algae, bacteria and fish, then watch oxygen and carbon dioxide balance themselves. Or fail to. The fish will let you know.
Wait For Nothing
RARE RELIC❓ ??????Made in the junkyard
A dramatic loading screen for something important.
A progress bar promises something important is loading. It takes its time. It builds suspense. You will want to be there when it finishes.
Play it Wait For Nothing ▶OriginalSuspenseBlank Windows
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
Empty white windows pile up on top of each other.
Rafaël Rozendaal’s artwork of blank, shadowed rectangles stacked across the screen, like every tab you forgot to close, with nothing in any of them.
Checkbox Olympics
UNCOMMON🗑 Pointless
Competitive checkbox ticking. Go for gold.
A series of timed events where the only sport is clicking checkboxes as fast and precisely as you can. It gets more intense than it has any right to.
Crouton
UNCOMMON🗑 Pointless
A white page. A single crouton in the corner.
The entire website is one small picture of a crouton, tucked into the top-left corner of an empty white page. It has been like this for a very long time. It does not need to change.
Draw a Perfect Circle
UNCOMMON🗑 Pointless
Draw a circle. Get a percentage. Try again forever.
By Neal Agarwal. Draw a circle around a dot and the page scores how perfect it is. You will get close. You will not get a hundred. You will try again.
Emoji Simulator
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
Build little worlds out of emoji and rules.
A grid of trees that can catch fire, spread and regrow. Change the emoji and the rules and simulate forests, zombies or whatever you invent.
Endless Horse
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
An ASCII horse whose legs never end.
A horse drawn in text characters. Scroll down to reach its hooves. Keep scrolling. The legs keep going. The horse is fine with this.
Falling Falling
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
Bands of colour fall forever.
A single-page artwork by Rafaël Rozendaal: layers of flat colour slide down the screen, endlessly. It is the internet equivalent of watching rain from a window.
Visit ↗ Falling Falling (opens in a new tab)Details about Falling FallingRozendaalArtInfiniteHypnoticFind the Invisible Cow
UNCOMMON😂 Funny
Hunt an invisible cow using only sound.
Somewhere on the screen there is a cow you cannot see. Move your cursor and a voice gets louder as you get closer. When you find it, it lets you know.
Visit ↗ Find the Invisible Cow (opens in a new tab)Details about Find the Invisible Cow⚠ Needs soundGameAudioAnimalsInto Time
UNCOMMON🌀 Weirdest. 2010
A slow gradient from red into deep blue.
A colour field by Rafaël Rozendaal that fades from red to midnight blue. It feels like staring at a sunset that has been compressed into a rectangle.
Koalas to the Max
UNCOMMON🗑 Pointless
Hover over circles until they split into a koala.
Start with one big circle. Brush it with your cursor and it splits into four. Keep going until the circles resolve into a picture of a koala. Extremely satisfying, extremely pointless.
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UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
A hand with freshly painted nails.
A single illustrated hand, fingers held up to show off a manicure. It is a quiet, strange little art site that asks nothing of you.
Move Now Think Later
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
A checkerboard of circles waiting for your cursor.
A black and white checkerboard with little circles, from Rafaël Rozendaal. The title gives you the instructions, and the page rewards following them.
Visit ↗ Move Now Think Later (opens in a new tab)Details about Move Now Think LaterRozendaalArtInteractivePaint Toys
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
A playground of art canvases with odd limitations.
A set of small painting toys inspired by the art world, from dripping oils to other constrained tools. Each has one trick and invites you to make something with it.
Paper Toilet
UNCOMMON🗑 Pointlessest. 2006
A roll of toilet paper you can unroll.
A single toilet roll on a black background, by Rafaël Rozendaal. Grab the paper and pull. It keeps going for longer than you would expect.
Patatap
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
Every key is a sound and a shape.
A portable animation and sound kit. Press keys and each one fires off a noise and a burst of moving shapes. Mash the keyboard and you are performing.
Visit ↗ Patatap (opens in a new tab)Details about Patatap⚠ Flashing images, plays audioAudioKeyboardInteractiveSandspiel
UNCOMMON🗑 Pointless
Pour sand, water, lava and fire. Watch them fight.
A falling-sand sandbox with elements like water, plants, fungus, acid and rockets. Mix them and watch tiny chemistry disasters unfold one pixel at a time.
Spend Bill Gates’ Money
UNCOMMON😂 Funny
Blow a billionaire’s fortune on burgers, yachts and sports teams.
You get an absurd budget and a shopping list that goes from a Big Mac to a cruise ship. Spending it all turns out to be weirdly difficult. The receipt at the end is its own punchline.
The Nicest Place on the Internet
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
Free hugs from strangers, delivered by video.
Real people recorded themselves hugging the camera so you could feel slightly better. It is surprisingly effective and completely unnecessary, which is the best kind of useful.
The Useless Web
UNCOMMON💾 Old Internetest. 2012
One button. It throws you somewhere useless. Sound familiar?
A single big button that sends you to a random pointless website. It is one of the ancestors of this junkyard, and we salute it from a safe distance.
Visit ↗ The Useless Web (opens in a new tab)Details about The Useless WebButtonRandomClassic InternetThis Is Sand
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
Pour digital sand into little layered landscapes.
Pick colours and pour grains of sand onto the screen, building layers like one of those souvenir bottles. Nothing is saved for any purpose. It just looks nice.
World’s Biggest PAC-MAN
UNCOMMON🗑 Pointless
An endless maze stitched together from player-made mazes.
Players build maze tiles and they all connect into one enormous game board. The global stats count pac-dots in numbers too large to read out loud.
Yes No If
UNCOMMON🌀 Weirdest. 2014
A soft gradient that asks nothing and answers nothing.
A calm, shifting gradient of blues from Rafaël Rozendaal. Three words in the title, zero words on the page. The indecision is the point.
Bongo Cat
COMMON JUNK😂 Funny
A meme cat plays instruments when you press keys.
The famous drumming cat meme, turned into an instrument. Keys play bongos, cymbals, cowbell, piano and more, with the cat slapping along every time.
Build Shruggie
COMMON JUNK🗑 Pointless
Assemble the shrug emoticon from loose parts.
The pieces of the famous text shrug are scattered across the page. Drag them into place. When everything lines up, you have built a shrug. Congratulations, or whatever.
Can’t Not Tweet This
COMMON JUNK😂 Funny
Content-free. Share-maximised.
The page has almost nothing on it except its own insistence that it must be shared. It is a satire of virality that has outlived the platform it was mocking.
Cat Bounce
COMMON JUNK😂 Funny
Cats. Bouncing. You are allowed to throw them.
Cartoon cats ricochet around your browser window and you can grab and fling them. There is also a button that makes it rain cats. That is the entire feature list.
Checkbox Race
COMMON JUNK🗑 Pointless
Tick 100 checkboxes as fast as you can.
A stopwatch and one hundred checkboxes. Check the first one and the race begins. It is the most competitive form of form-filling ever invented.
corndog.io
COMMON JUNK🗑 Pointless
It is raining corn dogs. Forever.
A pale blue sky with corn dogs falling diagonally across it, endlessly. There is no explanation, no weather forecast and no way to make it stop.
Cornify
COMMON JUNK😂 Funny
Unicorns and rainbows, on demand.
A self-described number one unicorn and rainbow service. Add sparkly unicorns to your screen, your photos or other people’s websites. It is aggressively cheerful.
Do Not Press
COMMON JUNK❓ ??????Made in the junkyard
A big red button. You were told.
There is a button and a label telling you not to press it. Each press makes the page a little more upset with you. It escalates.
Play it Do Not Press ▶OriginalButtonInteractiveEvery Day I’m
COMMON JUNK😂 Funny
Finishes one very famous lyric. Every day.
The page starts a line everyone knows and completes it for you, with total commitment. It is a motivational poster for people who shuffle.
FakeUpdate
COMMON JUNK😂 Funny
Full-screen fake system update screens. For pranks.
Pick an operating system, go full screen and walk away. Anyone who sits down will think the computer is installing an update that never ends.
GeekTyper
COMMON JUNK😂 Funny
Hacker movie screens with themes. Press any key.
Mash your keyboard and convincing code pours out, surrounded by fake alerts, maps and progress bars. It has dozens of themes, so you can look busy in several fictional universes.
😂 Funny
A very long question. A very short answer.
The domain asks whether a giant particle accelerator has ended the world. The page answers in one word. It has been reassuringly correct so far.
Heeeeeeeey
COMMON JUNK😂 Funny
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey.
A website that says one word. It commits to that word far longer than anyone asked it to. Turn your sound on, or don’t. It will not change the outcome.
How Many People Are in Space Right Now?
COMMON JUNK🌀 Weird
One number, updated whenever someone leaves the planet.
A big number telling you how many humans are currently off Earth, with their names, roles and how many days they have been up there. Oddly comforting.
I Am Awesome
COMMON JUNK🗑 Pointless
A whole domain dedicated to confirming one fact.
The page contains two words of plain text and nothing else. No styling, no images, no second opinion. Someone registered a domain to state a fact and then left.
Is It Christmas?
COMMON JUNK🗑 Pointless
Answers exactly one question. Usually: no.
The page shows a single word answering whether today is Christmas. The answer is localised to your language. For 364 days a year the answer is a very confident no.
Is It Wednesday, My Dudes?
COMMON JUNK😂 Funny
A screaming frog tells you if it is Wednesday.
The meme, turned into a calendar service. A very expressive frog lets you know whether today is the day. Six days a week, it is disappointed.
Is My Computer On?
COMMON JUNK🗑 Pointless
You loaded the page. It has an answer.
A service for checking whether your computer is switched on. If you can read the answer, the answer is correct. It has never been wrong.
Visit ↗ Is My Computer On? (opens in a new tab)Details about Is My Computer On?OracleOne JokeMinimalMapCrunch
COMMON JUNK🗑 Pointless
Press go. Teleport to a random street.
A big button that teleports you to a random street-level view, with filters for regions if you want to be slightly less lost. There is also a daily view picked by someone who got lucky.
Mondrian and Me
COMMON JUNK🗑 Pointless
Make your own grid of colour blocks.
Split rectangles and fill them with primary colours until you have something that looks suspiciously like a museum painting. Nobody needs to know it took thirty seconds.
One Square Minesweeper
COMMON JUNK😂 Funny
Minesweeper, but the board is one square.
The classic puzzle game with every unnecessary square removed. You have one decision to make. Choose wisely, or at least quickly.
Passive Aggressive Passwords
COMMON JUNK😂 Funny
Type a password. Get judged for it.
A password box that reads what you type and responds with increasingly personal disappointment. It does not protect anything. It just has opinions about your choices.
Visit ↗ Passive Aggressive Passwords (opens in a new tab)Details about Passive Aggressive PasswordsInteractiveKeyboardInsultsPixels Fighting
COMMON JUNK🗑 Pointless
Two colours of pixels battle for the screen.
A grid split between two colours that endlessly invade each other. There is no player, no winner for long, and no reason to stop watching.
Pug in a Rug
COMMON JUNK🗑 Pointless
A pug. In a rug. Spinning.
There is a pug and it is wrapped in a rug and that is all the information available. Some websites do one thing. This one does less.
Purrli
COMMON JUNK🌀 Weird
An online cat purr generator with sliders.
A virtual cat that purrs on demand. You can tune how sleepy, happy or close it sounds with a set of sliders. No litter tray required.
Random Colour
COMMON JUNK🗑 Pointless
The whole screen becomes one colour. You did not choose it.
Your browser fills with a single random colour. That is the service. The name made a promise and the page keeps it without any extra ambition.
Rotating Sandwiches
COMMON JUNK🗑 Pointless
A catalogue of sandwiches. Rotating.
An archive of sandwiches from around the world, each one slowly spinning in a loop. It is exactly what it says, and it takes itself very seriously.
RRR GGG BBB
COMMON JUNK🗑 Pointless
Three letters in red, green and blue, on black.
Chunky 3D letters in the three colours your screen is secretly made of. It is a website about pixels, made of pixels, for people staring at pixels.
Scream Into the Void
COMMON JUNK🗑 Pointless
Type your frustrations. Watch them vanish into space.
Write whatever is bothering you and send it off into a starry void, where it dissolves. Nobody reads it. That is the point.
Should I Blame Caching?
COMMON JUNK😂 Funny
A developer’s question, answered with confidence.
For programmers whose code works on one machine but not another. The page gives its answer instantly, with a small footnote that makes it even more correct.
Visit ↗ Should I Blame Caching? (opens in a new tab)Details about Should I Blame Caching?OracleOne JokeDevelopersSliding Toys
COMMON JUNK🗑 Pointless
Sliding tile puzzles, from simple to cruel.
Start with the easy numbered tile puzzle and work your way up to bigger, stranger variations. Best times and move counts are tracked, so you can take it personally.
The Zen Zone
COMMON JUNK🗑 Pointless
A meditation area made of small, oddly satisfying activities.
A minimalist relaxation zone that calms you down with tiny interactive tasks that are mildly amusing and very satisfying. It will not fix your life. It might fix the next five minutes.
Unicode Snowman for You
COMMON JUNK🗑 Pointless
One snowman character. For you specifically.
A single enormous snowman symbol from the Unicode character set, presented as a gift. It is available all year round, which is more than real snowmen can say.
Questions nobody needed answered
What is the most pointless website ever made?
A strong candidate is any site that answers a single yes-or-no question. We also nominate our own Wait For Nothing, which is extremely committed to its premise.
Why do people make pointless websites?
Because it is fun, because a domain name was available, and because the internet used to be mostly this. Pointless sites are often a developer’s side project or a one-afternoon joke that outlived everyone’s expectations.
What are good pointless websites to waste time on?
Start with Pug in a Rug, Rotating Sandwiches and Is It Christmas?, then press our Do Not Press button. You will lose more time than you planned.