Diving into the weird and nostalgic

As a kid and even now as an adult, the internet was (and still is) my bread and butter. Though I wasn’t allowed to have any type of social media until I was 11, the moment I took my first computer class-learning how to use WordArt in daycare- I was hooked. My favorite free gaming websites were coolmathgames, addictinggames, and miniclip but anytime I got bored with those websites I would type “I’m bored” into the search engine and see what I could find. This is what I did with this assignment and my half-hour journey was just filled with odd websites that made perfect time wasters.

The first website I found was boredbutton.com. You’d press the red bored button and it would bring you to a small game that filled you with .5 seconds of entertainment until you press the button again. I pressed it a few times, getting things like neat card tricks, cool facts, and “The Worlds Dumbest Game” which consisted of seeing how long you could press a button. The next website I went on was pointlesssites.com, which provided a list of websites that also brought short bursts of entertainment and weird, artsy sites. The two I spent the most time on was Google Earth and a website named Feed the Head.

I used to go on Google Earth a lot as a kid, just seeing my house, my friends house, my school, any place I’ve been to numerous times, and I had the urge to do so again on this journey. I always found that fascinating on how Google Earth can take you anywhere, but I choose to just go to places I’m familiar with. Anyways, after messing around on that website, I came across Feed the Head.

Now this website was interesting, because originally it just showed up as a blank blue head without any direction to it whatsoever. After clicking around a bit, an arrow popped up for a quick second, telling me to pull on its nose. The more things you click on, the more (rather eccentric) things that happened. In this particular screenshot, it allows you to click on the little bulbs on the branches and feed it to the head. He would then sprout spots, breath fire, and grow hair. If you click on things in a particular order, there’s a minigame where it runs out and jumps hurtles. It was all very artsy and with little direction, it allowed you to make your own decisions on what you want to do/what you should do with it. I used to go on websites similar to that one all the time when I was younger, I loved discovering weird things with practically no point to them and I forgot how fun it was to discover it again. Within a half-hour I barely scratched the surface on all the crazy websites I could find on the vast internet, but probably when I’m bored again at work I’ll be clicking on a random button and seeing where it leads me.

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