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According to the latest update, others let you watch a picture of a pug spin around your screen for eternity. The Useless Web is all about discovering more of the latter. Some websites help you get stuff done.
The report highlights that open it and you’ll see one big “PLEASE” button. Click that, and you’ll be sent to a random website with little to no practical purpose. The site is basically a doorway to some of the weirdest corners of the internet.
In a fresh development, where you end up is anyone’s guess. You might find a system update where you race to check 100 boxes, a one-square version of Minesweeper, or a kitten trapped inside a spinning doughnut. Some sites are weird and wacky platform releases. Others are quick jokes. Most of them will leave you wondering why anyone made them in the first place. That’s the whole idea though.
According to the latest update, but while your on The Useless Web don’t forget to honor the pug. See, I told you it’s pure nonesense!
Industry observers note that the site also keeps track of old pages that have disappeared over the years, so it doubles as a small archive of web weirdness. Developer Tim Holman created The Useless Web in 2012 as a way to collect the strange, silly side of the internet.
In a fresh development, the difference is that with The Useless Web, you probably won’t learn anything useful—it’s in the name after all. I like it for the same reason I enjoy a good Wikipedia rabbit hole: you never know where you’ll end up and the randomness is half the fun.
According to the latest update, just don’t be surprised if five minutes somehow turns into an hour. Give it a try the next time you have five minutes to kill.
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In a fresh development, when he's not on the hunt for the best computer deals he's covering VPNs, productivity programs, laptops, and a wide gamut of consumer-grade devices and programs. Sam Singleton is PCWorld's VPN beat reporter and jack of all trades.