There comes a time of day where you need some cyber evasion and you go on to check your favorite websites, Facebook profile, and the last of Instagram. But sometimes it becomes monotonous and boring. So we’re going to show you some places hidden in the web, rather curious, strange and even somewhat poetic that you would never find on your own.
The first proposal is somewhat reminiscent of “Frequency,” the 2000 film starring Dennis Quaid and James Caviezel in which a child could communicate with his father in the past using radio waves. Well, this site is an almost magical trip to the music of the past. You can choose a date and country to hear the music that was popular at that exact moment in history. The site is called radiooooo.com, with five “o’s,” no more, no less.
Our next proposal sounds rather strange but if you try it, we guarantee that you will be hooked for a few minutes. In www.rainfor.me, you can just hear the sound of rain. Please try it with headphones for better immersion. The feeling of relaxation and oneness with nature is virtually guaranteed.
Would you like to explore the universe as you can do with the land in Google Earth? This site is simply brutal and an its star map extremely detailed. Write down: http://stars.chromeexperiments.com. Explore the universe like you’re at the controls of the starship Enterprise …
While we’re in the outer space, we also recommend this curious URL (http://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com) which allows you to know in real time how many humans there are in space right now, who they are, their nationalities, etc. Do you think they will reach a dozen?
We remain up in the sky with a website that allows you to see all commercial flights around the planet in real time. It is a brutal avalanche of information but quite interesting and enlightening (https://www.flightradar24.com). Not a pin could fit there, in the sky…
Can you remember the sound of a typewriter or of a till of a small business? And how about how a VHS player sounds in time to press “play”? There are many sounds that have become extinct and would be difficult to explain to our children. Here is a virtual museum that collects them. Nostalgia in industrial quantities (http://savethesounds.info/).
As the last place for today, we recommend http://www.liveplasma.com, a curious website which suggests music, movies and TV series to consume based on a peculiar questionnairethat the user must undergo. The questionnaire itself is quite fun and propositions that its artificial intelligence makes deserve as least one viewing…
