![]() ![]() The seller’s product description is probably the most sarcastic thing I have ever read: We start off our tour of weird and confusing products with this “Gift Of Nothing For The Person Who Has Everything”. Immediately after I clicked the “please” button, my first product appeared: Product #1: …Nothing? That’s right, nothing. When I first entered the site, the following screen greeted me: As its name suggests, this website sends you to eBay pages with the weirdest, most confusing products being sold on the internet at the simple click of a button. We’ll start the series off with one of the most extensive sites on the useless web:. ![]() With that being said, on to our first post… Today’s Website: Sell me something weird or confusing! ![]() (I will not be covering any websites with mature content in this series.) However, if you decide to check the database out yourself, please note that some of the websites in the database contain mature content. Because of this, I’ve decided to start this series of blog posts, with each post chronicling my experience on a different useless website!Īll of the websites in this series will come from, one of the most well-known “useless website” databases. This “useless web” is extremely hilarious and entertaining to me, but most other internet users usually ignore it. Here’s the thing:I spend WAY too much time on the internet, and sometimes, my internet wandering takes me to the weirdest and most useless places on the world wide web. Hands down, my favorite websites are Reddit, and are.Introduction: Why write a series on useless websites? What is your favorite site on the internet? I still make websites but nowadays most of my time is taken up by graduate school, I’m getting a masters degree in philosophy, poetics and mysticism. In the early 2000’s I started making websites for friends, started getting hired to make websites, and a few years after that, I began exhibiting websites as installations and browser-based art. I started making websites in the late 90’s, my first website was on, and it was an offshoot of one of my zines. What got you into web development? What are you working on now? I also got a job at adult swim after they saw Cat Bounce, so I can attest: cats are Internet gold. In 2019 it won a Webby Award and I still get tons of email every week from people who either love it, hate it, or want me to make a site like it but with dogs. The weirdest/most surprising thing about Cat Bounce is that it’s had an incredibly long shelf-life. What is the weirdest thing that has come from owning/running such a unique-not-really-having-a-purpose site? The working title of the site was ‘Internet Crowd Pleaser’ but I ended up calling it Cat Bounce because it was less of a mouthful and it was WYSIWYG (more or less). I also recognized the Internet-popularity of cats and I wanted to see if I could make something that would be a hit on the Internet. I decided to replace the balls that bounced around the screen with cut-outs of cats because I’m a cat freak. ![]() I made Cat Bounce in 2012 when I was fooling around with a physics engine in Flash. What were the circumstances behind creating your site? ![]()
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