Line Mode — nine protocols you could type by hand
An interactive history of nine line-based internet protocols, from HTTP and Gopher to IRC, Finger, and WHOIS.
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An interactive history of nine line-based internet protocols, from HTTP and Gopher to IRC, Finger, and WHOIS.
A Polish-language racing game that changes grip as you drive, with four fictional tracks, four vehicle classes, and four game modes.
A Persian-English historical timeline covering Iran’s constitutional revolution and its long prehistory, with linked people, groups, places, and events.
A bilingual memorial site for Arvin Morattab and Aida Farzaneh, who were killed when Flight PS752 was shot down in 2020.
A Polish browser racing game where you shift manually, balance ballast, and drive handmade vehicles around tracks assembled from chalk, boards, bricks, and garden hoses.
A public, reviewable edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls, with Hebrew and Aramaic texts, manuscript browsing, and translations in progress.
An interactive guide to pansori, the Korean storytelling tradition built around one singer, one drummer, and an involved audience.
A self-paced bike challenge to visit all 53 Plaid Pantry stores in Portland in one day.
An open-source nonprofit lab building speech-recognition, tajweed decoding, and historic-audio restoration models for Quran recitation.
A neighborhood golf competition between Ridgefield and Bryn Mawr, complete with live probabilities, match records, rules, player pages, and a satirical clubhouse bulletin.
A community-built dictionary documenting Sasak words from Lombok across five dialects, with English and Indonesian translations.
A short-form film history series that rereads public-domain films through their sources, sponsors, omissions, and persuasive machinery.
An interactive tribute to КИНО’s Звезда по имени Солнце album sleeve, letting visitors reshape its rays, colours, typography, motion, and sound response.
An open-source, Arch-based Linux distribution that runs a local language model as a system service across its shell, Wayland desktop, security monitor, and kernel module.
A hand-drawn fighting game played entirely over SSH, with ranked matches, replays, character statistics, and a bot API.
A satirical celestial marketplace offering stars, galaxies, naming rights, and prices that escalate into the trillions.
An immersive book-launch site for a Glaswegian hopepunk novel about imagining a fairer future.
An interactive 3D atlas visualizing a flat Earth inside an ice wall, nested within crater-worlds corresponding to Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Ouranos.
A science-fiction comedy presented through the elaborate front of a $33 Clearwater bathhouse and sauna.
A personal project page about a 12-year-old in Bangalore who builds smart blind sticks for visually impaired students and uses storytelling and performance to make learning more accessible.
A live homepage for a marketplace that advertised generated images of passports, identity cards, driver's licenses, bills, and bank statements.
A worldwide wildfire map that combines satellite heat detections, burned-area outlines, historical playback, and regional hotspot counts.
A maker’s portfolio spanning LED costumes, stage lighting, silverwork, CNC and laser fabrication, wood, decor, and FPV drones.
A private nine-hole short course in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, with nine permanent tees, one raised green, and a single shared cup.