Before the internet sucked, people used to make their own websites...no ads and no subscriptions - just for fun!
The INTERBONG is an independent library of intriguing links to lesser known sites or artists. This content below is not being promoted to you, nor generated by some tech bro's algorithms trying to "build engagement" or "maximize revenues" -- but rather is a human-curated selection of some of my favorite websites. No ads, no trackers, no analytics, no sponsors, no logins, no revenue, no crap.
Some of these are long gone from active hosting, but where possible the Wayback Machine link is still posted.
Everlasting Blort
This is really the bible of excellent oddities and intriguing links
The Practical Guide to Nothing in Particular
Canadian's best satire podcast and short audio skits
Ming the Merciless
Weird interactive world of awesomeness from the days of flash
Steve Armstrong
Excellent drawings of "mostly robots, monsters and aliens"
Hats of Meat
A guide to the modern fashion of wearing raw meat on the head
The Outback Backpacker
A fascinating tale of travels to VERY rural Newfoundland
Cyriak
Animation like you've never seen before
Cockeyed
A true internet pioneer, Rob Cockerham explores all manners of measuring, pranking and building contraptions
Hans Hoogerbrugge - NAILS series
Dutch flash animation
Survival Research Labs
Would you like to see a machine that can hurl 2x4's 800ft at 200mph?
Glurt Stickers
Canada's greatest independent free mail-order stickery project
Citizen Freak
A huge collection of obscure Canadian music from the 1960s-80s
Gobler Toys
Thoughtful and delightful and bizarre children's toys
Uno B. Lee and the Variables
Great songs from the single most undergroundiest musician in Canada. Give him some plays!
Half Bakery
Kinda drunk? Came up with a great thought? Post it here
Internet Anagram Server
Type in your friend's names and make funny or rude anagrams!
Red Meat
A comic strip that is the exact opposite of Family Circus
Nathan Pyle
Aliens come to earth and examine the strange society of humankind (comic)
Employee 0000
One of the best stories of corporate slacking ever written
The Forbidden Toys
Another marvellous batch of extremely weird and demented kid's toys
Nicholas Gurewitch
Twisted comic strips for the cynical citizens
Dave Contra
Can we truly ever get enough of cynical dark humour comic strips? I think not.
99 Percent Invisible
A podcast examining the architecture, patterns, trends and incentives that exist invisibly behind society
Bob Log Tour Diary
For twenty years I thought you had to wash the pony dick. And then I found out the Truth- Nobody has ever washed a pony dick, and you don't ever need to ever. Wow, that was a pretty good trick.
The Radioactive Boy Scout
True story of a Michigan teenager who, for funsies, built a nuclear reactor in his garden shed
The Mojave Phone Booth
A lonely pay phone booth in the middle of the desert attracted random callers from around the world
Cowboy Boot Poetry Archive
Finally! Soon to be adapted to an 8hr Netflix mini-series
CBC WireTap show
Jonathan Goldstein hosts one of the best shows to ever come out of CBC Radio
Undercover reporter works as a prison guard
This is a long read, and very disturbing.
Excerpt from Cory Doctorow's Unauthorized Bread
From the man who coined "Enshittification", a story of the near future when even your toaster needs a subscription
Hola Amigos! The Onion's Jim Anchower archives
A young man's neverending quest for cheap cars, cheap beer and good times
The Beaverton
Canada's best satire news site
The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group
You will never look at bread bag clips the same way again!
The Arcata Police Log
"11:33 p.m. A busy man outside a Plaza bar balanced out his personal hydrology by peeing in the street while holding a beer. He somehow found time between moisture management mandates to bang on passing vehicles with a bat."