Weirdest Websites Found on URL Roulette Vol. 2

Curator's Note

This batch is proof that the internet's best corners are the ones nobody asked for: a communal fish tank, a raindrop's cross-country road trip, a cursor's odometer. None of these sites are trying to sell you anything or grow your engagement — they just exist because someone had a weird idea and followed through. Perfect fuel for your next aimless click session.

DrawAFish.com

The premise here is almost insultingly simple: you draw a fish, and it starts swimming around in a shared virtual tank with everyone else's fish. That's it. That's the whole site.

What makes it weirdly compelling is the one rule they insist on — 'facing right please' — which somehow turns a free-for-all art dump into a strangely orderly little ecosystem. Scroll through the tank and you get this accidental gallery of everyone's five-second doodles, some earnest, some deranged, all swimming in the same direction.

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River Runner Global

Click anywhere on a world map and watch an animated raindrop trace the path it would take to the sea — down mountainsides, into creeks, through named rivers you've never heard of, until it empties out into an ocean thousands of miles away.

It's the kind of site that turns 'huh, I wonder where the water in my backyard actually goes' into a five-minute rabbit hole. There's something quietly hypnotic about watching geography get reduced to a single moving dot.

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Cursome

Cursome tracks how far your cursor has traveled while you use it, framing the whole thing as a tribute to your poor, overworked mouse pointer — 'who travels day and night just to get your work done.'

It's a joke wrapped around a real bit of data tracking, and once you know it's running, you start noticing every unnecessary scroll and drag. A tiny reminder that even the most invisible parts of your workday add up to actual mileage.

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Fortune

This one greets you as 'Seeker' and asks if you'd like your fortune foretold, then delivers something that reads less like a horoscope and more like an ARG transmission — cryptic messages, a 'Rubicon' sender with an address like a corrupted file path, someone named Bye typing in real time.

Fortunes reset at midnight, per the meta description, so there's a ritual quality to coming back daily. It sits in that fun uncanny space between fortune-cookie app and found-footage horror, and it's not entirely clear which one it wants to be — which is probably the point.

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Nested

Billed simply as 'a simulation of everything,' Nested is a zoomable universe where you can scroll infinitely outward from atoms to galaxies, or inward the other way, all built by Orteil (the creator behind Cookie Clicker) back in the early 2010s.

It's an old-web relic in the best sense — a scrappy, single-purpose toy that lets you burn twenty minutes just scrolling through scale, from a coffee cup to the observable universe. If it complains about JavaScript being disabled, just refresh — it's worth the reload.

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