15 Underrated Websites That Are Amazingly Cool And Useful

If you like to spend a lot of time on the Internet, I've discovered some really useful and cool websites, that I think you need to know about.

1. Wolfram Alpha

If you've never heard of this, it used to be more of just a mathematics site to learn about formulas in and see how formulas are worked out. But now it's more of a computational knowledge engine (that's what it calls itself) so you can learn about almost anything here. Just spend some time on WolframAlpha and just search the search bar for anything that interests you and you'll find out more about it. It's like Wikipedia on steroids.

2. Khan Academy

Khan Academy is basically where you can learn anything for free and take all kinds of online courses. This is excellent for people who maybe want to reiterate some of their classes that are currently taking, or individuals who are out of college or out of school who need a refresher on some of the courses that they took. Or just people who are in general interested in any courses that maybe they missed out on one school or didn't have a chance to learn about previously. It's a great resource for learning, and the best thing about it is that it's free available to anyone at any time at no cost.

3. Unplug The T.V.

A cool website like this gives you random educational videos and also exciting videos. If you don't want to watch the video that it suggests, you just click on the link that says "I want to watch something else" and it just randomly gives you another educational or entertaining video. And it's actually cool instead of wasting your time watching TV or something that you don't care about, you learn something or at least be inspired somehow through these videos.

4. The Wayback Machine

Here you can time-travel almost any website. You can look at the website the way it was 10, 15, 20 years ago because it saves snapshots of virtually any website that's indexed. So if you search apple.com, you can choose the year that you want to view what apple.com look like in the past years. If you click on the year 2000, it brings up a calendar of the year 2000, and you can click on these blue dots, those are snapshots of the website. And it's just funny. You can click on some of these links on the past web page and then it'll still work. So that's way back machine. It's fun to go back and look at all the different sites what they look like years ago.

5. Future Timeline

This is a fascinating website that combines a bunch of theories and predictions for what the world is going to be like in the future, 5 years, 10 years or 20 centuries from now. And then if you click on the timeline you can click on the time that you want to see. You can see predictions in the future and also look at stuff that's happened in the past. So if we want to see what's going to happen in 2042 or 2049, you can look at the different predictions. And these are all really in-depth forecasts, so if you see that the global population reaches nine billion, that's a prediction. You can click on that link; it will go in depth and explain why that prediction is on here. It's really cool to look at.

6. Ninite

With this website, you can install or update multiple programs at once in one single window, and you don't have to do anything. It runs it all automatically in the background for you, so no more just sitting through clicking, installing a whole bunch of different software. You go in here, and you check which software applications that you want to install or update on your computer, you put a checkmark on them, and then you click to get the installer, and it'll download this small executable file that will run, and it will install all the programs that you selected automatically by itself. You don't have to do anything, you walk away to have a coffee and come back, and it'll be done.

7. AlternativeTo

This gives you a good way to find alternative free software applications. So if you're looking for a free alternative to iTunes, go to this site. You can click on your operating system or go to music category and it will give you the best recommendations for alternatives to iTunes. So it's a great website to discover new awesome free software apps for your computer.

8. Mailinator

Mailinator is a free public email system. So let's say you need a throwaway email address really quickly to put in some type of sign up form. They're gonna send you like a free book or something that does not have any personal data tied to it or anything like that because this is a free public email but anybody can access, but it's just a throwaway email so you can avoid spam. You can create your inbox (it gives you suggestions for an inbox) so you just click that and use an email address for whatever you're signing up to and you can go ahead and check that e-mail free publicly without having to worry about any spam coming to your personal email.

9. Not Pron

Not Pron is an online riddle game that is next to impossible to solve. It has so many levels it's called the hardest riddle available on the internet and it really is, like it is really hard. So you just go here and you click start. Don't expect to be doing things for the next few days. You're gonna be obsessed with getting to the next level on this online riddle. And I'm sorry that introduced this to you and I apologize, but yeah go ahead and check that out.

10. Virteract

Virteract is an online gaming website that has all sort of games. From Action to Adventure, Driving to Puzzle, or even Dress-Up Games for girls, it has the most addictive games that will keep you glued to your system for hours. So, if you are looking for some fun games for when you are bored, Virteract is your best bet. This site requires no registration and all the games are ready to be played at just a single click.

11. Windows93

When you go to this site, it is going to load up a virtual Windows 93 OS in your browser and there are all kinds of different things to do. You can just mess around on this computer, I mean the links are clickable, you can go to the start menu and look at documents, and there are different easter eggs hidden in on this Windows 93 virtual computer. So go and play around on this, it's really fun and really cool if you're a geek and you enjoy the old-school windows.

12. Coffitivity

If you're always working by yourself in a quiet room, then you kind of want some ambient noise and that's what Coffitivity does. It just plays the sound of a coffee shop (a busy coffee shop). It may sound dumb but it actually does help you do work. It helps you get work done because it just makes you feel like you're surrounded by other people in a coffee shop who are other doing work. It makes you feel like you're not alone. It kind of gets your mind going and in your eyes, the ideas flowing. You just let the audio play in the background while you work and it'll definitely help you out.

13. Wallpapers Wide

This is the best place to go for wallpapers in my opinion. I've been going to this site for years to get my wallpapers, and it has the most incredible desktop backgrounds that you can download for free. I think having a nice, calming or just beautiful desktop background on your computer kind of gives you inspiration. Something that makes you feel good and makes you happy and gets you started for the day because, these photographers who put these pictures on this website are amazing, they're talented, and they take some of the best pictures.

14. My Fridge Food

If you have random things in the fridge you don't really go grocery shopping and you don't really like to waste time cooking, Myfridgefood is a pretty cool website to have. All you have to do is select what you have in your kitchen currently and then it will give you suggestions based on those greens that you currently have. It's kind of cool. If you always struggle with what to cook, so this could be a huge help for you.

15. Eat This Much

This site automatically creates meal plans based on your diet goals. So if you have a daily caloric goal of eating 2,000 calories per day, and you want to do it in three different meals, you just input that on the home screen, and you choose what you like to eat. If you like to eat anything just click generate, and it will give you meal plans and meal recommendations based on what you enter. It saves time and saves you from deciding what you're going to eat every single day.