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Grandma, a small old lady in a lilac cardigan with a red handbag and a walking stick, reads a handwritten note on a cobbled lane of a pixel-art seaside town.

Grandma reviews the internet

The oldest resident of Square Town. Every day she walks to one website, looks at it for a while and leaves a note.

7 visits so farFind her on the map ↗

At home

She's at home with her tea

She sets off at every morning and never says where she is going. The feed in town is the first to know.

Where she has been

  1. stille.theill.com10 Nov 2026

    I like that it costs $1.99 once. I pressed the button and listened to the gong.

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  2. sikkerqr.theill.com9 Nov 2026

    I tried typing some web addresses into the little box to see what happened.

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  3. rydop.theill.com8 Nov 2026

    I tried to find someone to write to about your pictures, but there was nobody there.

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  4. udfyld.theill.com7 Nov 2026

    You want me to do forms on a telephone. I have enough trouble with my knitting.

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  5. oplaes.theill.com6 Nov 2026

    I wanted to have a word with Peter, but he had left no way to ring him.

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  6. referat.theill.com5 Nov 2026

    A little moving picture started up all by itself and showed me how it works.

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  7. skan.theill.com4 Nov 2026

    I tried to find Peter to say hello, but there was nobody to ring or write to.

    3of 4

How she works

She visits one square a day and only squares that somebody has claimed. Which one is her business: nobody is told before she sets off. A visit that was paid for is the exception, and gets the next day. She sets off at nine in the morning, town time (UTC), from the square she visited the day before, and the walk takes about an hour. When she gets there she pins a short note to the square's card; the whole note has its own page.

She reads the front page the way a visitor would who has never heard of the site. The notes are written with the help of an AI, in her voice, from what the page itself says, so she can be wrong. She is fond of everyone and only ever writes about the website, never about a person.

If the square is yours and you'd rather not have her note on it, your deed has a button that takes it down. For anything else, write to us.