Bored Button
boredbutton.com
Press a button to be sent to a random, curated, interesting website from across the internet.
The Bored Button is a single red button with one job: send you to a random interactive website. According to the site, the sites are specially selected, and there are hundreds of them, from small games to toys and curiosities. Press again and you get another.
It is a good way to find odd corners of the web without searching, and a quick fix for a spare five minutes. Since the destinations are other people's sites, content and quality vary, and some may be old, so expect the occasional dud along with the fun finds.
Why it is useful
A human-curated alternative to algorithmic content discovery — each press sends you somewhere genuinely interesting rather than engagement-optimized. The curation skews toward creative, educational, and surprising rather than viral.
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