Shpërqëndroju në këto aktivitete të nevojshme

Constantly being plugged into the news grind is mentally exhausting. Sometimes we just need to take a break, unwind, and do something fun. That’s why we’ve built up a collection of distracting time-wasters for when we need a break from being obsessively online. We figured you might enjoy these harmless rabbit holes, mildly addictive browser games , and internet curiosities , too, so we’ve been writing about them when we find them.

Can you beat our score in I’m Not a Robot or did you find a gem of an academic paper on motherhood and body horror on Horror Lex ? Tell us in the comments.

The goal here isn’t to get engrossed in a game that you’ll lose hundreds of hours to, or become an expert on dialectical materialism. It’s to have a little fun on your lunch break, decompress between emails, or give you an interesting repository of art to dig through on a slow Sunday afternoon. So check back often to see the latest light-hearted (well, mostly light-hearted ) time waster we’re passing around the office.

The Virtual OS Museum lets you relive over 600 operating systems right on your desktop

The Virtual OS Museum isn’t a physical place, it’s a collection of over 1,700 distinct installations of over 600 operating systems for over 250 platforms that you can download and run via emulation right on your computer. It’s largely the work of one man, Andrew Warkentin , a developer and OS historian who has been slowly building his collection of OS images since 2003.

The library spans nearly the entire history of computing from 1948’s Manchester Baby , the first stored computer program, to early builds of Android from 2011. Unsurprisingly, there are a lot of obscure OSes in there, including countless DOS variants, MOS for the Acorn BBC Master, and a number of hobby OSes like NitrOS-9 , which brings a host of modern features to the ‘80s Tandy Radio Shack CoCo line.