The algorithm ends here.
Roam is a discovery engine for the internet that feeds forgot. One button, one site at a time — hand-picked pages across science, art, music, history, games, the old web, and forty-odd other categories. No feed, no infinite scroll, no engagement optimization deciding what you see. Just doors.
Roam draws from the open web. Most of what it hands you comes in live — random Wikipedia articles, what's rising on Hacker News and Lobsters, fresh projects from GitHub, obscure hand-made pages from the Marginalia indie-web index, old-web pages via Wiby, films, concerts, old-time radio and MS-DOS games from the Internet Archive, highlights from the Met Museum, free classics from Project Gutenberg. A quality filter screens the firehose so what surfaces still feels worth your time.
Blended into that is a collection kept by hand: sites chosen one at a time because they're worth the click. You can browse that part in the directory. The rest of the internet is not a list, and never will be.
Roam is built in East Tennessee by the creator of Wheels in the Hills, an accessibility travel project reviewing real destinations from a wheelchair user's perspective. Same philosophy in both: show people what's actually out there.
Wheels in the Hills — Facebook · YouTube · TikTok · Instagram
AI Music Central — YouTube · Merch
Found something that belongs here? Use the "Suggest a site" button on the main page, or message through the Facebook page above.
Roam offers Paid Discovery — clearly labeled sponsor cards in the discovery stream, one slot at a time. See the Advertise link on the main page for details.