The internet is not
five apps.
a timeline.
what an algorithm picked for you.
It’s
32568
weird little websites.
Cloudhiker sends you to one of them at random. Hand-picked by humans, ranked by nobody. No feed, no scrolling, no idea what you are going to get.
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The collection
Every site in here got in the same way. A person opened it, looked around, and decided the rest of us should see it too.
No crawler assembled this list. Nothing climbs it by posting more often. Sites get read and filed into one of twenty categories. That is the whole mechanism. What is left is 32568 personal pages, obsessive archives, single-purpose oddities and things nobody would ever build for a living.
Read the long version- Categories
- 20
- From Science & Gaming, to Nature and Arts.
- Websites
- 32568
- Curated by a human. No algorithm. No AI.
- Site Views
- 32.2 Million
- Times somebody pressed the button and landed somewhere they had never been.
- Likes
- 292934
- Sites people love and wanted to keep.
In the press
Every couple of years somebody writes the same piece: where did the wandering internet go, and what do you use now that the old discovery engines have shut down. We keep turning up in them.
Also passed around on r/InternetIsBeautiful
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