I built the useless web in 2012, while locked up inside during a hurricane. For years now, its served as a hub for all things quirky and weird on the internet.
Its creators, Colleen Josephson and Kyle Miller were both studying their PHD’s at the time (Electrical Engineering & Math) who found time to create some weird at a hackathon! What were the circumstances behind creating your site?
The Pigeon. The Pigeon is one of the most perplexing sites on the useless web, I have done a lot of digging and haven’t been able to come up with any information. I was under the impression to have a .org domain you needed to be an organization.
Cat Bounce is one of the very first websites on the useless web, and has been on the site right from the start of time, delighting millions with falling cats from the sky, which, if I’m honest, we all need every now and then.
Over the last six months, Potato has been guessed 1,576,183 times, Tomato has been guessed 1,542,960 times, and there have been 520,893 incorrect guesses. That looks like almost 17% of all guesses being incorrect.
One Square Minesweeper is one of those projects that have sat in my todo list for a long long time, something that would be almost in a sense the fastest easiest game that you can win, but also lose equally easy. Why A Single Square?