Quirky sites

A collection of quirky, highly addictive interactive web experiments and games created by Neal Agarwal, exploring everything from space scales to hypothetical scenarios.

An interactive showcase of artificial intelligence using generative adversarial networks to instantly create hyper-realistic portraits of human faces that do not actually exist.

Combine four elements over and over until you have somehow created a Time Machine and a Doge.

Place Wikipedia events on a timeline in the right order, a deceptively hard game built from open data.

One button that teleports you to a random pointless corner of the internet.

Look out of a stranger's window somewhere in the world, for as long as you like.

An infinitely zooming painting made of hand-drawn panels that loop seamlessly forever.

Point anywhere on the screen and it finds a photograph of someone pointing at exactly that spot.

Pour colored sand into shifting dunes, one of the most quietly hypnotic things in a browser.

A falling-sand physics sandbox with fire, plants and water, plus a gallery of what other people burned down.

Draw symmetrical, glowing generative art with a mouse, no skill required.

A set of small experiments that teach rhythm, harmony and spectrograms by letting you fiddle with them.

A cat plays whatever instrument you pick, in time with your keyboard, for no reason at all.

An immersive web collage and digital art project that serves as a love letter to the early internet, built using text, graphics, and animations excavated from archived GeoCities pages.

Borges's infinite library made real, containing every possible page of text including this sentence.

Search engine for the animated GIFs rescued from GeoCities, all four million of them.

Browse archived websites inside emulated period-correct browsers like Netscape and early Internet Explorer.

Click to hear dial-up modems, Nokia ringtones and other noises that no longer exist.

Visual essays that turn niche data obsessions, like rap lyrics, roller coasters, and name trends, into gorgeous interactive stories.

Hand-curated index of Wikipedia's strangest entries, a rabbit hole with no bottom.

Mash any keys and produce convincing scrolling code, a joke that has outlived most real websites.

A nostalgic web simulator that recreates the classic Windows XP "ghost window" glitch, letting users drag and weave endless trailing error boxes across their screen.

A harmless prank tool that simulates various operating system update screens, such as Windows 10 or macOS, perfect for fooling friends into thinking their computer is installing a lengthy update.

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