50 Sites You'll Spend Hours

 50 Sites You'll Spend Hours On Once You Start 

 

 1.) 'http://zoom.earth' — Watch the world via live satellite imagery 

2.) 'http://flightradar24.com' — See every plane currently in the sky 

3.) 'http://marinetraffic.com' — Track all ships at sea in real time 

4.) 'http://windy.com' — Live map of winds and storms 

5.) 'http://lightningmaps.org' — Watch lightning strikes hitting Earth in real time 

6.) 'http://earthquake.usgs.gov' — Live list of recent earthquakes

 7.) 'http://submarinecablemap.com' — Ocean cables carrying the internet 

8.) 'http://globalforestwatch.org' — Watch forests disappear from space

 9.) 'http://worldometers.info' — The world's statistics, second by second 

10.) 'http://internetlivestats.com' — Current number of tweets and searches being posted 11.) 'http://thetruesize.com' — Compare the true sizes of countries 

12.) 'http://oldmapsonline.org' — Maps from centuries ago 

13.) 'http://davidrumsey.com' — Archive of 150,000 historical maps 

14.) 'http://openstreetmap.org' — World map drawn by volunteers 

15.) 'http://window-swap.com' — Look out the window of a random person around the world 

16.) 'http://virtualvacation.us' — Virtual walks through cities 

17.) 'http://mapcrunch.com' — Teleport to a random spot on Earth 

18.) 'http://atlasobscura.com' — Catalog of the world's strangest places 

19.) 'http://neal.fun' — Interactive knowledge experiences 

20.) 'http://htwins.net/scale2' — Scale journey from atom to universe 

21.) 'http://eyes.nasa.gov' — Explore the solar system in 3D 

22.) 'http://stellarium-web.org' — Real sky map in your browser 

23.) 'http://apod.nasa.gov' — NASA's astronomy picture of the day 

24.) 'http://images.nasa.gov' — NASA's entire visual archive, free 

25.) 'http://pudding.cool' — Visual articles told through data 

26.) 'http://ourworldindata.org' — The state of the world with real data 

27.) 'http://gapminder.org' — What we mistakenly think we know about the world 28.) 'http://informationisbeautiful.net' — Visualizing complex data 

29.) 'http://data.worldbank.org' — World Bank's open data 

30.) 'http://data.tuik.gov.tr' — Turkey's official statistics database 

31.) 'http://archive.org' — Archive of millions of books, films, and software 

32.) 'http://gutenberg.org' — 70,000 free books whose copyrights have expired 

33.) 'http://openlibrary.org' — Record of every book in the world 

34.) 'http://loc.gov' — U.S. Library of Congress digital archive 

35.) 'http://europeana.eu' — Europe's cultural heritage archive 

36.) 'http://dp.la' — America's digital library collection 

37.) 'http://artsandculture.google.com' — Tour museums from home

 38.) 'http://rijksmuseum.nl' — Download artworks in high resolution 

39.) 'http://wikiart.org' — Archive of 250,000 artworks 

40.) 'http://publicdomainreview.org' — Forgotten visual treasures of history 

41.) 'http://openculture.com' — Free archive of culture and education 

42.) 'http://metmuseum.org' — Met Museum's open collection 

43.) 'http://musicmap.info' — Family tree of music genres 

44.) 'http://radiooooo.com' — Pick a country and decade to listen to that era 

45.) 'http://listen.hatnote.com' — Turn Wikipedia edits into audio 

46.) 'http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

' — Random knowledge well 47

.) 'http://timeanddate.com' — Time, sunrises, and sky events 48.

) 'http://sciencedaily.com' — Live stream of science news 49

.) 'http://arxiv.org' — Free preprints of scientific papers 50

.) 'http://observablehq.com' — Visualize data with live code The internet isn't just those five sites the algorithm puts in front of you.