The internet is indeed an e-world of its own. As of 2012, a survey by Netcraft, a provider of cybercrime disruption services across a wide range of industries based in the UK showed that a total number of 144,000 websites launched daily, which amounts to over 51 million annually.

As of January 2018, (6 years later) the figure stood at 1,805,260,010 (over 1.8 billion) websites. Some of these websites grow big enough to rank among the world wide web’s top 500. Sadly, the rest of these websites get almost no visitors and rank lower not because they suck that bad, but just because the top can only fit too many at a time.

Below is a carefully researched, compiled and comprehensive list of 10 useful websites you wish you knew earlier.

1. The Internet Map
If not the coolest website on the internet right now, the internet map, designed by Ruslan Enikeev for a personal non-commercial project just as the name implies is indeed a map of the internet.

The designer claims that this website continuously archives all other sites on the internet, representing them in dots. The sizes of the dots depict the ranking of the websites according to Alexa (Website ranking Algorithm by Amazon) making Google, Facebook among others a distinct turquoise sphere among the rest.

2. Radio Garden
Ever been curious enough to imagine how listening to radio stations from other countries sound? The user interface is quite intuitive, featuring a dynamic world map of live radio across the globe. It has navigation similar to google earth and unique features including Add favorite stations, history lookup, jingle mode, RDS, and mute mode guaranteed to make you want to bookmark this website immediately.

Asides most social media websites, Radio Garden is ranked as one of the very few controversial sites where users get payable contents for free. The Radio Garden has a similar working concept as radiooooo.com asides the fact that radiooooo lets you choose your desired year and genre of radio.

3. Internet’s first website
The http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html created by Tim Berners-Lee is the home of the first website. Considering how there are over 1.8 billion websites in 2018, there was none 27 years ago. This first web page of the internet, published on August 6, 1991, was landmark informing the World of the world wide web project and ran on a NeXT computer at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN. It comprises steps on how to create Web pages and explained the meaning of a hypertext.

In the absence of CSS, and simplified website builders including Dreamweaver, Elementor, Divi, and Envato, you should prepare your mind for something ‘amazing,’ especially before attempting to open this website.

4. Web Oasis
Most times, it gets boring staring at that static google.com home page right? How about making https://weboas.is/ your homepage instead?
Asides the cool hacking theme, Web Oasis has prebuilt bookmarks of most websites across the internet with clear navigation links which unveil on mouse hover plus a fully customizable user interface/elements, an add-on for everyday use including News, Tech, Radio, Crypto, quick notepad editor, Weather, Finance, a secure password generator, and even an arcade game.

It also has an embedded chat room, a 2-character shortcut search engine mode, and a section on the screen’s top right corner showing your local system information. Now, this is the real Google, literally housing all of your wants on a single website.

5. Cymath
If Cymath was available decades earlier than 2013, then the internet would have been a better place, especially for students looking for a step-by-step approach towards the solution to their mathematics problems. Cymaths is every student’s dream plus you can have all your assignments done, be it graphs or equations.

It’s inventors believe in the ideology of open education, and that every student deserves math help that is reliable and accessible, powered by a combination of artificial intelligence and heuristics, so that it solves math problems step-by-step like a teacher would.

6. Konboot 
The fact this that this website is available on the surface web is amusing. Konboot prides themselves as the world’s best remedy for forgotten passwords for a simple reason – it bypasses the authentication process of your (or probably not your) operating system without overwriting your old password or leaving a digital footprint.
Technically, this website lets you log in to any Windows or Mac Operating system with full rights without prior knowledge of the machine’s password. Konboot is designed primarily for tech repairs, forensic teams, and security audit reasons. Piotr Bania is the mastermind behind this rare tool.

7. User testing
Finally, a freebie on the internet that isn’t a hoax? Except for the fact that this isn’t free money, you earn it. User Testing or usability testing pays between $10 – $30 for every website you test. The goal of user testing is the get a digital product in front of a customer as early as possible.
Users are asked to perform a specific task that simulates real-world usage of usually a website. These tasks can be as easy as opening multiple pages across a selected website while having a voice and screen capture, A/B tests, preference tests and eventually taking a UI/UX review questionnaire afterward. These tests take less than 10 minutes to complete, no experience is required, and the is no cap on the number of tests a user can take per day.

8. Awwwards
Unlike Amazon’s Alexa, which ranks websites with algorithms based off of web statistics, visits, relevance, and SEO optimization strategy, Awwwards typically accepts website submissions and allow users to rate these sites based on four distinct features: design, usability, creativity, and content.
Awwwards is the abode of a vast collection of mind-blowing websites across the internet where users not only get a chance to rate them based on design, creativity, and innovation on the internet but also gather unexplored ideas regarding their next projects. Users are also able to query and search directories based on their respective niche as well as hire and apply for website design positions site wide.

9. Rhyme Zone
Are you a Poet, song lyricist, into essay writing, a rapper, or just looking for rhythm? Then you should try out Rhyme Zone. RhymeZone is arguably the best and fastest way to find English words for any writing. It has been running continuously since 1996.
It is a concise guide for finding corresponding rhymes, antonyms, synonyms, descriptive words, definition, thesaurus, lyrics, poems, homophones, similar sounding words, related words, similar spellings, picture search, Shakespearean novel search, and letter matching.

10. Library Genesis
Library Genesis is a search engine for the biggest archive of free e-books on the internet allowing free access to content that is otherwise paywalled or not digitized anywhere else on the internet.
Irrespective of the type of books you read; novels, tech, educational material, LibGen (Sci-Tech), Scientific articles, Fiction, Comics Standards, and Magazines, you are rest assured such books reside here.
LibGen initially used the domain name libgen.org but was forced to shut down and to suspend use of the domain name due to copyright issues from authors In late October 2015. The LibGen website is blocked by a handful of ISPs in the UK for obvious reasons. As of 5 June 2018, Library Genesis claims its database contains over 2.7 million books and 58 million science magazine files.

Bottomline: Now that you’ve probably bookmarked these rare but real websites, spread the love by telling someone about this today.