Internet culture websites

Every era of the internet leaves behind its own folklore: the memes, the webcomics, the pranks that spread by email, the one-joke sites that everyone seemed to know. The internet culture websites in this category are where that folklore lives.

Some are archives. Know Your Meme traces how a meme started and mutated, which is handy when a joke makes no sense to you. The Million Dollar Homepage is a grid of tiny ads sold in 2005, still online, and a monument to a good idea and to link rot. Some are living art forms: xkcd has been running since 2005, and Dinosaur Comics reuses the same clip-art panels while the dialogue changes. And some are communal absurdities, like Your World of Text, an endless text canvas shared with strangers.

A word on the tone. Internet culture is funny, but it is not always polite. Know Your Meme and the SCP wiki are user-generated and can contain crude or disturbing material, and we put content notes on those profiles.

The overlap with other categories is large. Much of what lands here is also Useless or Nostalgia & Retro, and the funny websites list pulls the best jokes together. If you want the deepest dive, Internet Rabbit Holes will cost you an afternoon. Or press the button and see what the internet decided to remember.