I was fed up with my predictable search engine results. So I decided to look for sites haphazardly.

That meant I had to find them without using a search engine.

First site: Eddie Woo (pictured), awarded the Australian Local Hero award 2018, teaches maths on his Youtube channel, WooTube.

I confess I haven’t learnt any maths for over 50 years.

That means just selecting one of his many 10 minute maths lessons was a real challenge.

“Playlists” are the key to finding the material I could understand, giving me confidence to advance further.

Eddie also has a channel he’s developed for teachers but as I didn’t want to subscribe I decided not to check it out.

Second site: Weird facts, crazy histories, tall stories have always interested me and I chanced upon two PBS Digital Studios channels on YouTube, Eons and Origins of Everything.

Eons, true to name, looks at life in 10 minute videos eons ago (from 4 billion years ago to 65 million years ago when dinosaurs existed).

I discovered snakes originally had legs, that turtles were shell-less and insects were as big as pigeons. Guess it would take more than one flick to get rid of them!

Many of the stories on Origins of Everything may well astound you.

Learn the facts behind our need to wash hands, why pink is for girls and blue for boys, when marriage became about love.

Trivia fund raising events this year may prove very interesting!

Third site: Ever imagined being an astronaut blasting off to another planet?

Well, you can experience the 1972 Apollo 17 mission to the Moon at the interactive site, apollo17.org.

On entering the site you have the option to fill the whole screen and then immerse yourself in the radio communication with ground control while viewing the relevant images from the shuttle’s camera.

Not quite walking on the moon but a small step in that direction.