You’ll recall the 888,246 ceramic poppies at the Tower of London in 2014; one for each British and colonial death in WWI. Most of the poppies were bought and this site shows where many ended up.

A huge number of live webcams from around the world, you can save a collection of your favourites; strangely addictive.

Pointless but alluring – find the antipodes (the other side of the world) of any place on Earth, if you burrowed straight through the earth’s; core and came out the other side.

A preview of the new website for Parliament that is being developed by the Parliamentary Digital Service. It looks promising so far, and they welcome comments.

An astonishing global trip planner that helps you get from A to B worldwide. Buses, trains, planes, car, whatever. A great example of the power of combining public sources of information.

One of Google’s experiments in artificial intelligence. You draw something badly, Google guesses what it is and offers professionally drawn alternatives. Explanatory video at https://tinyurl.com/webster352

The publishers Harper Collins is 200 years old this year and has launched this splendid site to tell its story. A lot to read and look at

Bletchley Park - A 360o tour of the National Museum of computing. Click on the dots for more information, explore by holding down your left click button.

What do you know of Syria? This Google/UNHCR site shows, perhaps, the future of documentaries. Find you own way around this absorbing report from of Syria

If you own a house, and especially if you’ve no mortgage, you should register for the Land Registry's free Property Alert service to help protect your property from fraud.

This the founder of Wikipedia’s effort to bring truth to news on the internet. He calls it “evidence based journalism”. Oldie readers should look at it – and I would be very interested in their thoughts.

The Horse of the Year Show was a big part of my young life; it still flourishes. This new site is long overdue and is a great example of how a big event should advertise itself.

NASA’s huge library of images, videos and audio clips from the last 100 years of space exploration. All free for anyone to browse or use.

Much improved site from the National Galleries of Scotland. An excellent example of how an art gallery’s site should be put together.

Vatican Museums: this site has been completely rebuilt and magnificent. Virtual tours and videos, over 4,000 of the Vatican exhibits on display. Set the language to English (top right).

Seating plans for almost all passenger planes and helps you reserve one that will fit your needs, and legs. Warns of bad seats and recommends good ones

This clever site shows you the top 100 stories on Google News country by country. Click on a subject (the bigger the print size, the more mentions it has) and the headlines appear – then click through to the news source.

A little known free service from Google – allows you create a free website, using their templates; there is no charge for hosting; great for clubs, churches and the like. It helps to be a bit of a geek

See the most searched terms through Google in 2016 the UK, in various categories. David Bowie beat Donald Trump overall.

Charles Booth was a remarkable English Victorian philanthropist; this site lets you search over 450 original notebooks from Booth’s Inquiry into Life and Labour in London (1886-1903), view 41 digitised notebooks and maps.

Fantastic online tool; listen to live radio streams from all over the world simply by rotating the globe on the screen. Very addictive window on the planet. There is also some great archive material.

Published by the National Churches Trust this is a work in progress, but aims to collate information on all churches that are open to visitors. The “themed lists” are fascinating.

If your email inbox is too full of email newsletters you might try unroll.me. It will do the unsubscribing (if you want it) and store those you want to look at later out of the way. Only works with online email, though.

A site that helps you make Freedom of Information request. You have the right to request information from publicly-funded bodies.

This is the Natural History Museum working with Google Arts & Culture to show off their wares – over 300,000 specimens in 11 exhibitions. It includes videos and narration by distinguished scientists. A huge and rewarding website.

A one-man band runs this search engine for local or national newspapers in England. You can search for regional newspapers as arranged by place, county or region.