Hans L. Bodlaender

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• Origami. These webpages on origami contain one of the first explanations on the internet how to fold certain models. Much better explanations can be found nowadays elsewhere.
• Chess variants. Many years ago, I started a webpage with information on chess variants, i.e., board games that are related to chess (but with different rules). Currently, this website is maintained by a group of several people, and not by me anymore. You can find a lot of interesting information at the chessvariants.com website!
• Wipperoen. Together with my children, I made a website with information on Wipperoen. Stories about Wipperoen appeared with daily episodes in Dutch newspapers, in the 1970s and 1980s. The website is in the Dutch language, and contains, amongst others, one full story, published with permission of the author.
• De spannende avonturen van de man met de achternaam van een letter. Between the age of 17 and 22, I wrote a novel. The novel is not published, except that a scan of the document is on this website.
• An unsolvable instance of Freecell: a game from Windows'95. In Windows'95, there was a puzzle game, called Freecell. The helpfile of the game suggested that all instances were solvable. They were not, and I wrote some short text, long ago.
• Make enemies fast. In the early days of the internet, many spam emails were a form of a chain-letter Ponzi scheme: send money to the top names of a list, put your name at the bottom, and send the email to X other people, and within Y days, the scheme said that you would receive some rather large amount of money. This text was a parody. Most interesting was that some readers believed I was serious.