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http://HasTheLHCDestroyedTheEarthYet.com/

    <script type="text/javascript"> 
      //Technically, this will be accurate...
      try {
        document.write("NO");
      } catch(err) {
        document.write("YES");
      }
    </script>

IIRC, the /robots.txt (now sadly missing) used to read, ``the robots will not save you''.

http://ducksarethebest.com/

  <!-- jQuery? more like crayQuery -->

I disconcur with the evaluation criteria. It took me to this website, which is anything but useless: http://heyyeyaaeyaaaeyaeyaa.com/

Agreed. I got to play with http://www.koalastothemax.com/

That one really stuck... 5 Minutes later, i was still staring at the screen and hitting reload for another round...

That one was my favorite, I spent half an hour uncovering the picture of a kitten. Sadly it was not a koala as advertised.

It's comparable to bubble wrap IMO.

I also got the same website. Damn it's stuck in my mind right now

For those without flash, what does it do?

Plays some stupid He-Man cartoon music video.

This video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ5LpwO-An4

It actually checks for flash support, and removes any flash websites from the potential list... so its a good experience all-round.

Based on the handful of sites that it sent me to, I'd rename this "The Creative Web".

The internet is still pure magic to me. Sure I have understanding of the tech but the personality and connectivity is just overwhelming when I pause and really think about it. Sure there's plenty of junk, but it's all part of a huge overall societal benefit.

Not forgetting http://zombo.com/

There's a "submit" link at the bottom, which is probably the coolest thing about this.

Wow. About every three years I find out that zombo.com still exists, and am surprised and delighted all over again.

"Strange how much human progress and achievement comes from contemplation of the irrelevant." - Scott Kim

If you're short on time don't buy his book inversions. And if you know someone who is short on time then don't buy it for them as a Christmas gift either.

From the title, I was hoping to read a crushing indictment of web developers for mostly creating useless crap.

Sadly, it's more like the opposite: a shiny button inviting us all to view useless crap.

Some of those are definitely not useless to kids. Remember when you were a kid and some crabby old biddy gave you crap for 'wasting your time'? I do. As for adults and the web: How 'useful' is porno? (Same principle)

The useless pages reborn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Useless_Pages

with memepool.com updating again its like the 90s...

now only if Grant Barret would start posting articles to worldnewyork again, we'd have come full circle. (all thats left is an archive of broken links....)

http://grantbarrett.com/old-format-archives

I can't believe http://tunnelsnakes.com/ isn't on there.

WTF.......http://www.staggeringbeauty.com/

Where the internet ends? http://www.wwwdotcom.com

endoftheinter.net

and it never ends. there is always something beyond the end of the world.

you're the man now dog - looping audio with gifs

Good example - http://jeffgoldblum.ytmnd.com/

www.ytmnd.com started 2001 - memes and fads. Mostly gradeschool level humor: sophomoric, casual racism, sexism every ism you'd like to mention. Equally hilarious and offensive.

http://yourethemannowdog.ytmnd.com

http://jurassictourettes.ytmnd.com/ - mashup of jurassic park and "tourettes guy", watch the best parts of jurassic park in 10 minutes

http://ytmnd.com/sites/top_rated/alltime

http://ytmnd.com/info/about

I'm impressed with how much consistent traffic this site has been sending my way: http://s3.amazonaws.com/arena_images/56036/original_90541c1f...

Anything that's a subdomain of http://ytmnd.com.

Personal favourite: http://youmakemetouchyourhandsforstupidreasons.ytmnd.com/

http://rainbowstalin5.ytmnd.com/

If you want to got to all the useless sites with one button click: http://jsfiddle.net/crismanNoble/jjAaf/embedded/result/

Warning:

1)Put headphones in.

2) Your computer might crash hard.

Hilarious.

It doesn't fit in with these sites, but my favorite useless site is still Beedogs: http://www.beedogs.com/

The best part is clicking for more beedogs repeatedly and reading what it says.

Doesn't work for me (Firefox 10). But the list of URLs is available in the JavaScript here: http://www.theuselessweb.com/js/uselessweb.js.

complete list, clickable:

http://heeeeeeeey.com/

http://www.koalastothemax.com/

http://heyyeyaaeyaaaeyaeyaa.com/

http://eelslap.com

http://www.staggeringbeauty.com/

http://ducksarethebest.com/

http://www.omfgdogs.com/

http://burymewithmymoney.com/

http://www.republiquedesmangues.fr/

http://www.hristu.net/

http://www.ismycomputeron.com/

http://randomcolour.com/

http://www.sanger.dk/

http://www.fallingfalling.com/

http://grandpanoclothes.com/

http://www.rrrgggbbb.com/

http://www.everydayim.com/

http://r33b.net/

http://cat-bounce.com/

http://www.leekspin.com/

http://dandandan.net/

http://sometimesredsometimesblue.com/

http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

http://www.something.com/

http://www.winkyface.org/

http://isitchristmas.com/

http://hectorsalamanca.com/

http://ninjaflex.com/

http://ihasabucket.com/

http://corndogoncorndog.com/

http://www.oppositeofpoop.com/

http://giantbatfarts.com/

http://chickenonaraft.com/

http://www.nullingthevoid.com/

http://www.pleasedonate.biz/

http://www.itisamystery.com/

http://imaninja.com/

http://willthefuturebeaweso.me/

http://www.drunkronswanson.com/

http://salmonofcapistrano.com/

http://www.watermelonduck.com/

http://www.ooooiiii.com/

http://www.wwwdotcom.com/

http://www.ouaismaisbon.ch/

http://iamawesome.com/

http://beesbeesbees.com/

http://www.pleaselike.com/

http://crouton.net/

http://www.clicktoremove.com/

http://dastardlydigitofdestiny.com/

http://www.muchbetterthanthis.com/

http://www.nelson-haha.com/

http://www.wutdafuk.com/

http://colinsgiraffe.com/

http://trololololololololololo.com/

http://theshortanswer.com/

http://unicodesnowmanforyou.com/

http://www.patience-is-a-virtue.org/

a few of these are from artist rafael rozendaal. check his work out here http://newrafael.com

http://superbad.com/

Wow, I got lost in there.

I love superbad.

Its been around for a while, and with this reminder I see its been updated.

Photosensitive Seizure Warning!

Wiggling your mouse at http://www.staggeringbeauty.com/ (one of the possible sites) will trigger it.

Interesting what the http://isitchristmas.com/ site is doing. It's using websockets. Anyone can figure it out?

My console logs all people visiting the site, and also where they are from. The author also took the time to translate yes and no to various languages. I got 'Nee' for example, that's Dutch for no.

Whatever it does, it's using SockJS to do it :)

I could have really used that in about '85 or so, unfortunately the web wasn't around.

Family relationships were at an all time low and I simply didn't realize the date and showed up for work. The security guard informed quite clearly that I wasn't supposed to be where I was (at my desk, debugging some crappy COBOL program). I was wondering if I'd gotten the time wrong, never once thought to check the date...

Used the Chrome Inspector. Looks like mouse movement tracking. It's bi-directional too, I see the frames of mouse movement from other people. I think perhaps this was supposed to show fake cursors of other people on the site, but it isn't working?

That looks like it. Too bad there's no websocket support in Firebug.

Awesome, but it misses the epic http://nooooooooooooooo.com/

I submitted my site: http://www.wasteaguid.info

Some of these are brilliant! http://heeeeeeeey.com/

Which goes to http://hooooooooo.com/

Loved this one - http://heeeeeeeey.com/

http://www.pointlesssites.com/

http://www.airhorn.org

Ok, that's it. It's now officially f__k this s__t o'clock!

I just sat here for like two hours... Thanks.

Posted in my fb feed. A huge hit.

it at least can spam your web browser's history mark

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