Fun Sites

10 Amazingly Fun Sites I Stumbled Upon Using StumbleUpon

I’ve spent many a day and night Stumbling across obscure corners of internet with the StumbleUpon toolbar.

Some of the sites are interesting. Some of the sites are fun.

But then there are the sites that blow me away and make me think, “Wow!”

This is about the “Wow” sites.

So without further ado, here’s a list to ten of the coolest, most fun sites I’ve discovered through the toolbar…

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How To Use StumbleUpon To Cure Boredom With Fun Sites

StumbleUpon is a browser toolbar that will randomly direct you to unique, fun sites that you’d never have discovered otherwise.

All you have to do is click the big, friendly “Stumble!” button and you’re off to your first website. If you like it, you can click the thumbs-up button. If you don’t, click thumbs-down.

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7 Fun Sites You Can Only Find On The Gopher Internet

Yes, I said the Gopher Internet. No, I don’t mean little rodent things.

You see, way back before these new-fangled graphical web browsers like Firefox and Internet Explorer were invented, there were two Webs. There was the world wide web, and then there was the Gopher web.

The World Wide Web has, obviously, gotten pretty popular. You’re using it right now. It’s estimated that there are more than 12 billion publicly accessible websites on the WWW today.

Gopher, meanwhile, has stagnated. According to the biggest Gopher search engine, there were less than 100 Gopher sites left in the world as of 2007. And Mozilla has announced that future versions of Firefox (starting with Firefox 4) will not even be able to display Gopher sites.

Gopher is dying, and will soon be gone entirely. There are a huge number of things that have contributed to it’s failure as an opposing standard to the WWW, from poor marketing to licensing fees to the fact that it’s named after a type of rodent. It’s like Blu-Ray versus HD-DVD, only less people care.

You probably haven’t even heard of Gopher before. And who can blame you? It’s a fading star, now only used by nostalgic geeks. But believe it or not, there’s some cool stuff on the Gopher internet. Why limit yourself?

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