the neocities wander button
Wander! Explore!info
Hi! Do you remember StumbleUpon? I can't tell you how many hours I would spend just stumbling on random websites by pressing that stumble button... Unfortunately the company behind StumbleUpon changed direction in 2018 and now exists as more of a social bookmarking app. Nowadays there are replacements for StumbleUpon, like Jumpstick, but I thought it would be fun if something like StumbleUpon existed, but it only stumbles on sites hosted on Neocities.
Well, Neocities already has a random sites page, where you can browse random sites hosted on Neocities. But it doesn't really feel the same to me as StumbleUpon did. There are too many options! I don't want a list of random sites that I have to choose from, I want to just go to a random site immediately!
So I made it! If you click the Wander Button at the top of this page, a new tab will open to a totally random site hosted on Neocities!
This works by fetching the html for the random Neocities page, putting all links containing a url of a Neocities page into an array, and then picking one url from that array at random and opening it as a link. If you click on the expore button instead, it will instead take you to a random site from the most popular sites on Neocities.
If you'd prefer to not have to open a new tab every time, and have the Wander button always available at the top of the page to move on to a new site, you can use the dedicated Wanderer for that!
Other ways to wander the web
Cloudhiker
Jumpstick
The Useless Web
Viralwalk
wiby
Johnvertisements
The image below is not an ad, well at least not a malicious one. It's called a "Johnvertisement." To the best of my knowledge, Johnvertisements are a collection of user-submitted ads for their own perosnal websites. Whenever you refresh this page, the image and link will change.
Directories
If you'd rather browse lists of websites instead of just going to a random one, there are websites out there dedicated to that too!
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