Since 2006, a simple, red, four-hole button has been sending bored but curious minds to the most entertaining corners of the web.
The early Internet was a weird place. One site let you slap an eel across a man’s face. Another was nothing but dancing hamsters. There were infinite zoom paintings, scale-of-the-universe simulations, countless pointless Flash games, and projects like the Million Dollar Homepage which somehow more than funded someone’s college tuition.
The hard part was finding them.
So we created Bored Button, a simple way to share unexpectedly delightful websites and waste a little time. No login. No algorithm. No endless feed optimized for maximum anxiety.
We’ve been doing this since before the iPhone. Before social media swallowed the internet and AI spit it back out. Back when people made weird little websites just because they could. That era never really ended—it just got harder to find. And that’s why we’re still here, doing the same thing and as uncomplicated as ever.
Every site on Bored Button is handpicked by a real human. If it’s in the rotation, it’s because we thought it was genuinely worth your time—or at least a few moments of bewilderment. And if you don’t like a site we’ve picked, just click again.
Press the Bored Button and be bored no more.
There have been hundreds over the years, but the current count is exactly 150.
No, but you’re welcome to press the button 150 times.
It’s possible the site no longer exists. Feel free to contact us, and we’ll do our best to help track it down.
You can suggest a site here.
Fun, original time-wasters without too many ads and that are appropriate for all ages, mobile-friendly, and served over HTTPS, not HTTP.
Sad to say, if accepted, it can take awhile. We appreciate your patience.
Please let us know via the contact page. Thank you?
No, we don’t accept payment for placement.
No, and we’re not at all happy that there is a mobile app that stole our name and never acknowledged credit.
Eh, don’t mess with success. And believe it or not, when it first launched, it won a design contest.
Yes, the original was created by removing and photographing a button from the founder’s favorite red jacket. Unfortunately the image wasn’t a high enough resolution to be used on modern screens and had to be replaced.