Happy 25th Birthday to the web! To celebrate we thought we would like to share a few things that we love about the World Wide Web aside from the fact that is how we all earn a living!
Sarah
OpenPuppies is quite simply the best thing on the internet! I can just spend hours on this site, it isn’t the most user friendly but if you keep deleting all the digits after the hashtag and refresh the screen you just see endless hilarious dog videos. It is how I spend most of my lunch breaks!
I am also a fan of the calming Manatee site for when you need a little boost.
Scarlett
Like Sarah, I am a massive fan of any cute animal websites and OpenPuppies is a firm favourite but embarrassingly, the website I spend most of my time on is the Daily Mail (I even have the app..). I spend too much of my life in an endless loop of celebrity gossip stories on this website, please don’t judge me!
I’m also a big fan of online shopping and shoes, in no particular order, so when I need my fix of beautiful footwear I like to browse JustFab.
Phil
I kick-start my day by checking in with the BBC news pages every morning to see what’s going on in the world. I feel it gives a balanced appraisal of news and information - I love it...
Allan
BBC iPlayer or Netflix. We don’t watch that much live TV any more as online streaming is so accessible.
I also spend quite a bit of time on 500px, a photography website. Some of the images captured across the world are stunning.
Andrew
Reddit bills itself as the “Front page of the internet”, and it’s certainly that. Anytime something goes viral, you can trust that it will be on Reddit before anything else. It’s become a bit of a morning ritual whist I eat my breakfast - The previous generation would read the front page of the paper, I read the front page of the internet.
The only downside to browsing Reddit so frequently is that nothing is new on the internet. Whenever someone tries to show you something, you’ve undoubtedly already seen it (“That was sooo 3 months ago”)...
Filtering through the sea of submissions, a couple of my favourite “Sub-Reddits” are:
James
I have spent countless hours watching video after video on YouTube. Whether it’s to help with things I do at work or just for my own amusement, there’s always something to keep you occupied.
Here’s some of the channels I subscribe to:
Mahendran
I like to start my day by browsing the news through Google news. I read UK and Indian version.
I also enjoy manga and anime sites Mangafox and Animeseason. They are great entertainment - A couple of manga & Anime a day keeps my mind at bay.
If I want to learn anything, from cooking food to new IT stuff, YouTube is my first Go to place.
have started to watch Lots of vines from lots of channels like Eh Bee Family.
Greg
Like Phil I like to start my day with BBC News (hmm maybe this is an age thing, us being just a smidge older)...
For weird and offbeat articles about art/ travel/history I really like Messynessychic and for interesting and offbeat photography Polarinertia.
Seem to spend a fair bit of time looking at Google Maps/Street View checking out potential places to go (I am not snooping at your house, honest).