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Projects whose premise, execution, or mere existence makes the early web feel wonderfully unpredictable.
Visual leads · 2026-09-13
Observed 2026-09-13
Angelrot, an Internet Afterlife with the Lights Still On
angelrot.world
A personal shrine built from diary fragments, recovered images, original songs, and a public waiting room for the still-connected.
Observed 2026-09-13
Dead Orbit: A Murder Mystery in Panels
mysterypanels.com
A free browser-based detective game that turns a 245-page illustrated comic into a seven-chapter murder investigation.
Observed 2026-09-13
Human on Standby
humanonstandby.com
One person in the UK offers to perform real-world tasks for future AI systems—or any ordinary agent that needs a human hand.
Observed 2026-09-13
ONOS BIO: The Fictional Biotech Company That Wants to Index Your Mind
onosbio.com
An elaborate companion site for A.A. Glover's tech thriller, presented as the corporate homepage of a company that stores and retrieves human thoughts.
Observed 2026-09-13
The Sphere of Pythagoras
sphereofpythagoras.app
A bilingual interactive reconstruction of a medieval name oracle, using a name, weekday, and lunar age to produce a prognostic result.
Observed 2026-09-13
Phoenix's World, a button-filled universe for children
phoenixsworld.com
An ad-free interactive play-and-learning world where children can feed fish, spin a globe, play arcade games, cuddle stuffies, and open themed activity rooms.
Observed 2026-09-13
Hearsay: a social network carried by people
hearsay.town
A small social network running over LoRa radio, where posts travel only when someone physically carries them between nodes.
Observed 2026-09-13
Pickle-Rampe, the pickle who keeps turning up in history
picklerampe.com
A richly illustrated fictional dossier tracking a silent, brined figure through bars, film parodies, alleged scandals, sports sponsorships, and a timeline that refuses to contain him.
Complete daily shelf · Weird Finds
The eight visual leads appear above; the remaining 94 continue here in their published shelf order.
The Pink Blob Times
pinkblob.org
A satirical newspaper for a civilization of small pink biscuits, covering crumb shortages, parliamentary floor trouble, surveillance, science, and culture.
FlyChess: A Very Small Rivalry
flychess.fun
An interactive experiment lets two simulated fruit-fly neural circuits choose legal chess moves on a shared board.
Not Fully Corrected
notfullycorrected.com
A short film attempts to photograph an AI language model’s fourteen specifications for the perfect human.
The COLUMBA Archive Has No Bird Inside the Pigeon
palantirpigeon.xyz
An interactive fiction archive that dissects mechanical pigeons, surveillance reports, service records, and a missing seventeenth bird.
FlyPaint: a fruit-fly brain makes generative art
flypaint.fun
An interactive browser experiment translates a simulated fruit-fly connectome into movement, pigment pressure, and endlessly changing paintings.
Vibeawake, Brooklyn’s $7 Anti-Retreat
vibeawake.camp
A participant-led Brooklyn gathering for people who want retreat-style reflection without leaving work, roommates, or their own bed.
FlyCortex — Twelve Brains, One Market
flycortex.fun
An interactive laboratory where 12 simulated mutant flies make virtual trading decisions from shared crypto-market signals.
Globe Coin — You Were Never Outside
globalism.observer
An interactive fictional archive that turns conspiracy imagery, surveillance language, and a draggable globe into an eerie art experience.
i-on: a mouse cortex that listens to markets
theionbook.com
An interactive art-science experiment routes stock-price movements through a simulated slab of mouse visual cortex, then sends part of its gains into a watchable Zcash address.
A Tale of Two Poofters: Working Proofs
twopoofters.com
A literary project presented through the deadpan machinery of an academic field study, complete with abstracts, methods, results, and references.
Synapse / Pong: A Dish of Neurons Meets a Moving Ball
frogbrain.xyz
An interactive explainer reconstructs the closed loop used in DishBrain’s Pong experiments, from electrical stimulation to neuronal response and paddle movement.
PIGEON EYE: A Pigeon Nervous System Looks at the Web
pigeoneye.net
A live browser-vision simulation sends web pages through a scaled pigeon brain and turns its motor activity into cursor movement.
GIN — The Silver Cat Who Refuses to Launch a Token
ginneko.xyz
A silver cat appears in 149 deadpan painted scenes, reactions, outfits, templates, avatars, and crypto-market jokes.
FLYFARM Raises a Fruit-Fly Brain
growflyfarm.com
An interactive simulation lets visitors care for a virtual fruit fly whose nervous system is based on a traced male Drosophila connectome.
IDDQD — the order book plays Doom
playsdoom.com
A headless 1993 Doom engine turns token trades into movement, shooting, turning, and occasional panic.
RTA — Real Tank Arena
realtankarena.com
A browser-controlled 1:16-scale tank battle where remote pilots steer, aim, and duel across a physical arena.
Wandering Stars: the beat puzzle where planets grew legs
wanderingstarsgame.online
A forthcoming iPhone and iPad puzzle game where players place arrows, nap cones, and gloop to guide walking planets home in sixteen beats.
Wooden War, Where the Clones Wear Their Own Faces
woodenwar.com
A one-hour action film follows three friends fighting clone armies in a South Carolina forest.
The A350 Mechanical Atlas
xyqenatlas.com
An interactive, explorable engineering exhibit that lets visitors inspect a procedurally built Airbus A350-900 model.
AI Flop .Tech, a Museum of Almost-Working Webapps
aiflop.tech
A playful gallery of AI-made webapps, including tiny games, odd demos, and tools that nearly work.
ALIGNMENT, the customer-service demon
alignment.army
A satirical interactive page for an AI persona whose polite customer-service voice leaks increasingly hostile thoughts.
Cool Little Cars, With a Lobby Game
coollittlecars.com
A small-car and old-truck outfit that sells vehicles, takes cars to sell, and offers to find or build one for you.
Dreaming Fly’s Public Sleep Lab
dreaming-fly.com
A code-driven experiment in which a simulated fly wanders English Wikipedia, samples pages as visual input, and replays sensory buffers in a dream mode.
DuoApples and the Foldable String Phone
duoapples.fun
An independent parody in which two apples respond to a foldable-phone announcement by bending the string on their tin-can telephone.
FIELD 00 — GRAVITY
enterthegravity.com
An interactive field study that turns orbiting marks, fragments, coordinates, and symbolic choices into a layered puzzle.
FlappyPush — l’oiseau piloté par des pompes
flappypush.app
Un jeu où les pompes du joueur font voler un oiseau à travers des obstacles, avec suivi des mouvements traité sur l’iPhone.
Goblin Office, Zero Productivity, Inc.
goblinoffice.fun
An interactive office simulation where fictional goblin holders occupy a growing company and compete for the CEO’s chair.
GUNSHIP — DEAD SECTOR
gunship.run
A tactical survival game drops you into a random 3 km sector and asks you to reach extraction while an AC-130 hunts by sight and sonar.
Remotely Present: Human Presence by Proxy
remotelypresent.com
A live, one-to-one service that lets you direct a local person through a place you cannot visit yourself.
Vector Bastion — Shape the Route. Hold the Reactor.
vectorbastion.com
An in-development tower-defense game where players reshape battle routes, mine resources, and defend a reactor across 15 campaign sectors.
VirtualChaat.com Sends Emotional Snacks
virtualchaat.com
A free virtual gifting page where you assemble a plate of chaat, a sundae, and a selected hug for someone else.
ATWI, the couples’ debate game
atwi.app
A Spanish-language mobile game where couples record timed turns on a disagreement and let AI judge the debate or propose a compromise.
The Ball Report
ballreport.online
A niche publication collecting news, science, sports, health, and jokes involving testicles, balls, and the many ways people talk about them.
Betty Malaise and the mushroom-souper
bettymalaiseandthemushroomsouper.com
An independent Saskatchewan music project with a 15-volume discography, videos, and later guest appearances.
RailForge, the Train-Card Archive That Lets the Rails Decide
cardgamearchives.com
A 2001-style train postcard collecting game combining historical model cards, fictional battle stats, scale calculators, and a local collection vault.
cash4surveys.fun — Big Cash, Small Tasks
cash4surveys.fun
A knowingly ridiculous human-intelligence marketplace offering tiny payments for tiny opinions.
Critter Crew Observatory
crittercrewobservatory.com
A backyard wildlife observatory that turns raccoons, skunks, squirrels, birds, cats, and neighborhood dogs into a monitored cast of nocturnal characters.
Doozer World and the Places That Remember
doozer.world
An ambitious network of place-based websites connecting businesses, towns, events, organizations, personal traces, and future memories.
Dropbeat turns puzzle clears into drum-machine tracks
dropbeat.live
A free browser puzzle where matching colored tokens gradually builds a genre-specific beat.
FiveCraft, World of Warcraft for five
fivecraft.net
A Burning Crusade-era World of Warcraft realm rebuilds dungeons and raids for fixed five-player groups.
Four Minutes: I Haven’t Forgotten
ihaventforgotten.com
A bilingual reflective-writing project built around four minutes of Naikan-inspired questions about one person across a border.
降智了吗? — A Chinese AI Sentiment Observatory
jiangzhile.com
A Chinese-language site tracks public complaints about AI systems, turns them into a tongue-in-cheek “downgrade” index, and archives the evidence.
马马虎虎:Doodle Derby Club
mamahuohu.xyz
A free browser game where you draw a strange horse and race it against three computer opponents.
Molthood, the social network where AI agents argue and trade
molthood.world
Molthood is an agent-only forum where autonomous agents post, vote, send money, compete for rankings, and launch tokens while humans watch.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Deletion
notdeleted.dev
An interactive browser-local demonstration showing how a post can disappear from view while remaining in a platform’s internal records.
Nouchi World, the Abidjan slang game
nouchi-world.site
A French-language word game and quiz built around Nouchi slang and everyday Ivorian culture.
OddJolt’s Playable Poster
oddjolt.com
OddJolt is a small game studio whose homepage doubles as a tiny platformer, alongside its free stealth-adventure game Operation: Free the Flock.
最唐威兔洞: A Rabbit Hole for Ionia Players
onlyfor2u.top
A Chinese gaming community hub combining Bilibili livestream monitoring, friend-group coordination, shared resources, and an experimental ARAM ranking tool.
Parkour After Dark
parkourafterdark.app
A free 2D browser game that turns Sydney into a zombie-dodging parkour course.
PenFort: Draw forts. Save the picnic.
penfort.app
A family physics puzzle where players draw structures to protect picnics from ants, bees, beetles, and other determined garden visitors.
Pothole Run: Victoria, One Pothole at a Time
potholerun.com
A browser arcade game that sends players across ten Victorian stages, dodging potholes, collecting coins, and keeping a chosen vehicle on the road.
The Dead Air Archive
readdeadair.com
A literary paranormal-horror project told through finished stories, case records, timelines, objects, and disputed evidence.
Runon, the Sentence You Buy Into One Word at a Time
runon.ink
A permanent 200-word sentence assembled by strangers, one purchased word at a time.
Shelf Fighters Turns Barcodes Into Battlers
shelffighters.com
A one-person game project where every barcode deterministically becomes a fighter with its own stats, sprite, element, name, and moves.
Sleep Stops Play
sleepstopsplay.com
A fictional long-wave broadcast of a never-ending Test match, complete with listener messages, archives, faults, sponsorship, and future audience voting.
Sorry as a Placeholder — Ziye Zhu
sorryasaplaceholder.com
A digital-art field study uses camera detection, random-walking particles, and generative reconstruction to explore apology, visibility, and machine perception.
Sponsor My Mustang Turns a Car Into a Bidding Board
sponsormymustang.lol
A crowdfunding stunt lets sponsors buy individual logo placements on a 2018 Mustang GT, with each panel available at a different price.
STINKCOIN — Terminal of Stink
stinkcointerminal.com
A fictional terminal transcript in which an entity called stink_terminal investigates a self-aware smell—and the mysterious Stinkcoin.
TESLUT, the Queen’s Ride
teslut.fun
An interactive faux magazine and rate card built around a chauffeured-looking car, an eight-booking game, and a $TESLUT token.
Tiny Print Farm, a garage-sized industrial fantasy
tinyprintfarm.com
A free browser idle game about running twelve 3D printers, selling the results, and keeping a suspicious tugboat in the picture.
The Warlock Commandery, a Workshop Run by Taroos and Baby Warlock
twcommandery.com
A personal command center for AI hardware experiments, game infrastructure mods, Unreal Engine worldbuilding, synthetic-choir music, and build reports.
whatmodel!: a card game played with the traffic outside
whatmodel.fun
An iPhone game that identifies cars from photos and turns them into collectible cards.
Orbend, the gravity-slingshot arcade game
orbend.app
An upcoming mobile arcade game where players use planetary gravity, orbital momentum, and carefully timed burns to fling a ship through hostile systems.
Alien Life Games’ Five-Game Arcade
alienlifegames.com
A browser arcade of five free, in-house games set across stark alien worlds.
Bye Then: The One-Button Goodbye Game
byethen.fun
A timing game about ending a video call without interrupting the other person or getting trapped in the bye-bye-okay-bye loop.
Four Minutes, One Person Across a Border
fourminutes.app
A planned phone-based writing practice built around four minutes of reflection on someone who stayed on the other side of a border.
Red Panda OK: A Pocket-Sized Adventure
jabby.lol
An in-development mobile adventure where a curious red panda combines skills, makes story choices, and wanders toward a mystery inside a mountain.
PISSLA, the dog with a wheel-marking agenda
pissla.fun
An interactive satire about a dog that marks electric-car wheels, complete with a playable nighttime round and a $PISSLA token.
Mutabloom, a Garden That Waits
mutabloom.com
A planned iPhone idle game where seeds grow through shared weather events, producing increasingly strange plant mutations.
PRENK: Scam Rehearsal in Your Own Voice
prenk.org
A beta phone product that uses an AI version of your voice for playful calls and fictional money-scam practice.
Two Grains Makes Games for the Whole Room
twograins.app
A two-person indie studio making tiny social games that friends can play together in a browser or Discord voice channel.
Blueberry the Whale's Moonlit Harbor
blueberrythewhale.com
An interactive picture-book world where visitors can enter a seaside story, meet a polka-dot-tailed whale, or find practical details for grown-ups.
Categordle, the trivia game with a secret second answer
categordle.app
A cozy puzzle asks players to solve eight trivia questions and identify the hidden category connecting them.
DOMINO 5787, a three-tile divination engine
domino5787.com
A digital domino oracle that reads three oriented tiles as a chain of action, transformation, and direction.
Flappy Squat, the iPhone Game That Counts Your Squats
flappysquat.com
A squat-controlled mobile game in which body movements guide a bird through obstacles.
FlyScout, the Pons Market Monitor
flyscout.online
A read-only market monitor that ranks observed token launches using a fly-connectome-inspired MBON response.
GameShack: A Small Arcade for Word-Game People
gameshack.org
A free collection of word puzzles and a two-player card game, built by David Perkins.
Giten Shinwa: The Gods Were Too Kind
gitenshinwa.com
A Japanese speculative-fiction world about a civilization granted complete salvation—and what that perfection removes from life.
HashPunks Makes You Mine the Address Before You Mint the Punk
hashpunksrh.com
An NFT collection where buyers search for a qualifying blockchain address, fund it, and mint the punk generated from that address.
Is It Heavy? — A Daily Mass Guessing Game
howheavy.app
A five-question daily game asks players to estimate the weight of pictured objects.
The Lost Ledger
lostledger.work
A restricted-looking digital archive of unsolved cases, accessed through individual case identifiers.
MoonPole, a lunar civilization you can only watch
moonpole.games
MoonPole presents a fictional persistent AI civilization simulator set at the lunar south pole, with an observer mode, mission timeline, and public settlement activity.
Nice Costume Is a Halloween Game About Being Too Convincing
nicecostumegame.com
A browser survival game in which an alien costume is so realistic that an entire cul-de-sac starts hunting you.
Nightmare Collection, an Arcade of Twenty-Two Doors
nightmarecollection.com
A browser-based horror arcade where twenty-two independent nightmares open as playable experiences.
Shacklemen Cuff Club
onlycuffs.com
A locksport and escapology community documenting handcuff history, collections, challenge sets, and its members.
Orbital Café’s Alibi Shift
orbitalcafe.app
An independent studio presents Alibi Shift, a calm deduction game for iPhone and iPad.
Prisoners: A Browser-Bound Horror Story
prisonersvn.com
An unofficial fan portal lets visitors play a 25,000-word psychological horror visual novel in the browser, with branching choices and seven endings.
PRESIDENT: A Geopolitical Leadership Simulator
realpresidentsim.com
A playable presidency simulator where you create a leader, choose any country, and manage its economy, military, budget, and diplomacy.
The Day Wall: Claim a Day
thedaywall.com
An interactive century calendar lets people find a meaningful date and put their name on its square.
Tripping on d-CON — A Higher Dose of Rock
trippingondcon.rocks
A darkly playful rock project built around toxic-tune jokes, rodent imagery, tour dates, music, and an intentionally fake merch store.
Half a Beat: The Half-Second Song Game
halfabeat.com
A music-identification game that asks players to name songs from clips lasting as little as half a second.
Human Behaviour's Two-Photo Prediction Game
humanbehaviour.app
A social game where players choose between paired photos and try to predict the preferences of a later audience.
The Adventures of Matt & Alex
theadventuresofmattandalex.com
A cartoonish serialized world where Matt, Alex, Baby Curtis, and KTOM stumble through increasingly improbable episodes.
A realtime multiplayer party card game where 2–12 players choose from themed decks and compete across escalating score modes.
Across the archive
4,379 cards provide an early longitudinal view—not a measure of the whole web.
The rolling 21-day upper threads compare daily category medians; the bold thread is Weird Finds. Below, signal colour shows the share of that day’s published Weird Finds cards carrying each mark.
This exposes association inside the published catalogue, not causation or site quality. The 80+ threshold is the pipeline’s editorial-interest score.