https://archiveofourown.org/ is pretty cool i guess, it's the one i use most after hexbear 
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I'm not that big into fan fiction, but I adore AO3 for it's old web design sense, and extensive tagging system.
It's a good website, folks!
haha i spent my teen years writing political erotica on there! good times, good times.
You can't just say that without giving us the ship! 
would you believe me if i said i wrote erotica about engels writing love letters to marx as striner? lol the whole thing was based on stirner not actually being real and just an alter ego engels used to fuck with marx
Here are a few...
Every noise at once. Really just check it out if you find music interesting. Also fuck spotify.
https://everynoise.com/
Amazing collection of classic puzzle games
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/
Absorbing and enlightening even if math and physics aren't your thing
https://falstad.com/mathphysics.html
An interconnected way of learning about and understanding mental health
https://integralguide.com/About
Surprising amount to do, lots of nostalgia if you're old enough
https://www.windows93.net/
Another old PC emulator in your browser
https://www.pcjs.org/blog/2015/09/21/
All the old robots. Click them.
https://theoldrobots.com/
might need some content warnings, but undeniably fascinating, sometimes very revealing
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/
An index of Aesthetics
https://cari.institute/aesthetics
brr - an Antarctica blog
https://brr.fyi/
Cat bounce!
https://cat-bounce.com/
Thank you.
Those 100 years old photos from Kerala in your 8th link look amazingly fresh.
EDIT: Check out this style in particular:
EDIT2: "How People Really Dressed in the 2000s" on a site called "Historical Photos?": Jeez, that's awful. MattDamonAging.gif
These are all very interesting. I love that aesthetics index.
That is a good one, yeah. To anyone checking that one out, I'd recommend reading the short FAQ. Excerpt:
CARI defines a consumer aesthetic as a visual movement unified by overarching attitudes and themes that survived long enough or became popular enough to be appropriated by capital (a bar that is being lowered constantly as our cycles of cultural propagation accelerate).
Universal Paperclips. Go in blind.
What an amazing fuckin game.
one of my favorite games.. it blows my mind how much went into that
I hear you can do anything at zombo.com
Well, they certainly are welcoming.
Oh yeah, there are a metric fuck ton of cool and fun websites.
One of my favorite is Floor 796 — https://floor796.com/ — it's a... mosaic? I dunno. There's a word for what it is. An image with tons of references to other things just packed in. Things are being added all the time, and they have a changelog. This is better opened on a device with a big screen, like a tablet or a computer.
Then there's the Neal.fun website — https://neal.fun/ — which has a ton of things to do.
So that's a start!
P.S. Oh yeah, this too — https://www.dearnextvisitor.com/
wow floor796 is incredible
The internet archive has a whole bunch interesting stuff to go through. It's even got a whole bunch of flash games you could download and play using Ruffle. Loads of other junk too.
RSS reader with a bunch of blogs.
There was a list of websites that Meta was scraping for AI (it included Lemmy instances like us, it was posted a while ago), it's mostly all niche real human websites, so just start opening up random links.
If you’re into music and coding, strudel.cc is awesome. I’ve been watching Switch Angel shorts on YouTube and treating them like tutorials since you can just copy her code and make the same music she’s making. But you can also just look at the tutorials or the reference songs and then mess around.
Ooh this looks cool
Yeah this is getting a bookmark I'll never look at again . Good post
go look at those DONG videos on the vsauce channel. “stuff to Do Online Now, Guys”. idk if hes still around but those videos were just about cool fun websites around the internet. i found tons of cool shit from those videos
fun chess puzles
https://lichess.org/training/mix
competetive, easy access pokemon
https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/
both of these are available on browser even on mobile
My podcast https://www.patreon.com/c/BrokenWind
I always forget you are a hexbear user
That’s because of my talent for self promotion! But in all seriousness, as always, thank you for listening comrade shark fucker o7
I play a game called chicken smoothie, you basically just collect pets and there’s events. Lots of collecting and trading, tons of different artists so all the pets are unique, etc.
Nope, it’d probably be best if we all just abandoned it. ;)
I read a lot of serial web fiction on https://royalroad.com/ and (to a lesser degree) https://scribblehub.com/
Does Wisel Wisel count as "social media?" Like the internet of yore, it has some chuckle-worthy stuff...