Comments on: The serendipitous web

The serendipitous web

clevershark — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 20:34:08 -0800

A perl script on this page will show you a random web site. It's a great time-waster!

By: UseyurBrain

UseyurBrain — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 21:10:38 -0800

That was...odd. From a site about art and bras to a ministry blog and then to a PHP builder. It's like eating foods that don't belong together.

By: meh

meh — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 21:10:52 -0800

For those interested in this sort of thing, there's also a toolbar add-on that may be downloaded at Stumbleupon.com built around this same idea. (Works really well with Firefox.) But you can set it to pick random sites that comform to your specific tastes. Also, you can give sites thumbs up/thumbs down and share favorites with your online pals.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 22:02:06 -0800

Wow, this is original. Not. /cliche sarcasm. //美育意思

By: delmoi

delmoi — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 22:14:14 -0800

er, I mean 没有意思, obviously.

By: parallax7d

parallax7d — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 22:21:18 -0800

Wow, the FIRST site it brought me to was Metafilter! I kid you not! Oh wait, I just hit the back button instead! ;)

By: Rubbstone

Rubbstone — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 22:56:01 -0800

This is so ripe for Goatse and tubgirl its ridiculous.

By: mai

mai — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 23:04:43 -0800

Well I got to see a nice flash art site and a brittish socialist workers' paper. Pretty decent.

By: Hat Maui

Hat Maui — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 00:24:41 -0800

did steve jobs dream this up, high on the fumes of his iPon factory? enjoy uncertainty, indeed.

By: Pendragon

Pendragon — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 02:10:40 -0800

your entry: www.metafilter.com, will be reviewed by our crack staff of monkeys who will look for mispelling, dead websites or questionable links. your entry will be added into the database when we have time. So no change metafilter will be added to the database.

By: dodgygeezer

dodgygeezer — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 02:34:23 -0800

It was worth it just for this.

By: Bdave

Bdave — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 02:42:13 -0800

I found Touch and Go v. The Buttholes. Cool.

By: Bdave

Bdave — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 02:56:21 -0800

Then straight to Starsky & Hutch Fanfic. Starsky and Hutch strike out for a cross-country vacation to celebrate Hanukkah and Christmas by visiting their families. What danger could there possibly be in that? I dig.

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 05:29:55 -0800

This is so ripe for Goatse and tubgirl its ridiculous. Nah, this is just a random selection of websites they've preselected - which is why there's so many links to design studios/graphic designers, band pages, music mags and link hubs like memepool (and links obviously found on memepool). Actually, I got a repeat after 10-15 minutes of clicking. I wonder if there is some sort of probability that can be forced out of that fact to estimate how many links they have in their program. But your comment raises the question of what a random page off of the entire Internet generator would really look like. Probably an infinite succession of foreign text pages; small business pages; garish personal pages filled with animated gifs and ugly wallpaper; porn; advertisement; and confusing detrius. I could be wrong, one of my favorite links, after all, is the ugly emo teen/amateur photoshop gag/anime art generator. That casts a pretty wide net and it's almost never boring.

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 05:34:50 -0800

Sorry, the Ugly Emo Teen, Amateur Photoshop Gag, and Anime Art Generator has changed locations since that linked Mefi post.

By: DevilsAdvocate

DevilsAdvocate — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 06:31:46 -0800

Sheesh, you younguns, no sense of history at all. Back when Yahoo! was little more than a web directory, it had a "random link" link, as a button at the top of the page up through early October 1996, then as a link in the bottom nav bar for about a year after that.

By: brevity

brevity — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 09:36:00 -0800

And what about old school URoulette?

By: uncanny hengeman

uncanny hengeman — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 00:24:05 -0800

Isn't this site better? As in "more random", more possible results?

By: funambulist

funambulist — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 03:49:32 -0800

I like this. So far I got mostly design/art/photography sites, not bad either. Like toycamera.com, photos made with, er, toy cameras, some very cool shots there (Paris, LA, Venice, Morocco...).

By: dabitch

dabitch — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 08:57:28 -0800

I have one of those days every day. Thanks clevershark.