Interesting things on web
Updated: Feb 25, 2025
Some of the interesting things we noticed on the Internet.
Ever wondered how did the first ever website look like? Do you want to see the NYC Skyline in its almost entirety?
The first ever website
Browse the first website ever built, it still exists. Discover the World Wide Web's humble beginnings with this earliest incarnation. While there, don't forget to navigate to the etiquette page. It's quite interesting.
Browse the first website using the line-mode browser simulator
The voyage into the world of atoms
From the people who created the Internet, this animation shows the structure of matter at smaller and smaller scales. Zooming into a human hair, we pass through hair cells, fibril structures, keratin molecules, Carbon atoms, nuclei, neutrons, protons, and finally quarks.
The largest photo ever made of New York City
Gigapixel photography is the craft of shooting thousands of photos and joining them together into a single, seamless, ultra-high resolution image. Jeffrey Martin created this 20 Gigapixel New York Skyline panorama by stitching together thousands of photographs. This is the largest photo that has ever been made of NYC. Don't forget to zoom in.
See New York City like never before
The first ever YouTube video
Titled "Me at the Zoo", this 19-second video was uploaded by the YouTube Co-Founder Jawed Karim on April 23rd, 2005, a month before the platform became public. Guess how many views it has garnered before you watch.
100,000 Stars tour
100,000 Stars is an interactive visualization of the stellar neighborhood. It shows the location of 119,617 nearby stars derived from multiple sources.
Mars explorer
Have you always dreamt of being an astronaut? Come close by exploring Mars, its canyons, mountains and craters along with the location of previous missions!
Random explorer
Land on a random place from anywhere in the world. Explore the world via Google Street View. MapCrunch teleports you to a random place in the world. Discover the vast array of imagery captured by Google in 50 countries, featuring spectacular scenery, magical moments and the utterly unexplainable.