A digital museum of video game levels.
16colo.rs is an archive of ANSI and ASCII art. Preserving artpacks released through the BBS underground artscene since the early 1990s until the present.
Academics Torrents was established to meet the demands of science in the age of big data. It utilizes a scalable BitTorrent platform that distributes the burden of hosting data, eliminating the risk of data loss due to the rise and fall of dataset hosting providers.
ambientCG is one of the largest sources for free PBR materials, HDRIs, and models for 3D art, architectural visualization, game development, VFX and more.
The Animal Diversity Web is an online database and encyclopedia of animal natural history, built through contributions from students, photographers, and many others.
The world’s largest open-source open-data library.
A fan-created, fan-run, nonprofit, noncommercial archive for transformative fanworks, like fanfiction, fanart, fan videos, and podfic.
Browse and download high-resolution, public domain paintings, drawings, illustrations and posters.
arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for nearly 2.4 million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
Discuss, collect and share your beta and abandonware collection on BetaArchive
Remember When Video Games Came In Big Boxes? I most certainly do as I'm collecting them. For sharing my games with other (retro) gaming heads, I decided to turn all of the boxes filing up my NerdWall™ into shiny 3D!
The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
BitView is a way to get your videos to the people who matter to you. With BitView you can show off your favourite videos to the world, take videos of your dogs, cats, and other pets, blog the videos you take with your digital camera or cell phone, ..., and much, much more!
BookScans is a free online reference site listing tens of thousands of .jpg images, arranged numerically, by publisher, displaying how cover images and graphics changed during the early years of paperbacks.
For 200 years, the Brooklyn Museum has been recognized as a trailblazer. Through a vast array of exhibitions, public programs, and community-centered initiatives, it continues to broaden the narratives of art, uplift a multitude of voices, and center creative expression within important dialogues of the day.
The Computer Gaming World Museum is dedicated to the preservation and presentation of all items related to the first magazine specifically dedicated to computer games. In the Museum, you will find scans of every CGW issue, from its debut in November of 1981 to its last issue issue in November of 2006.
The Codex Atlanticus is the largest existing collection of original drawings and text by Leonardo da Vinci and is preserved at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan. It is the result of the collection and organisation of 1,119 pages of Leonardo’s writings by sculptor Pompeo Leoni between the late sixteenth century and early seventeenth century.
At Comic Book Plus, you can read and download Golden Age comic books. We also hold a large and growing selection of Silver Age comic books, Comic Strips, Pulp Fiction, Old Time Radio (OTR), Fanzines, a lively and active Forum plus lots more.
Common Crawl maintains a free, open repository of web crawl data that can be used by anyone.
The main goal of Crypto Museum is to preserve history. This is done by collecting, restoring and describing historical cipher machines – such as the well-known Enigma machine – spy radio sets, intercept receivers and and other espionage-related items.
World’s leading independent website for 3D printer files・Download the best objects for 3D printing・Share your designs on Cults3D the biggest DIY community.
A retro-gaming museum showcasing classic Amiga, PC, and console games.
DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, and is committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone. DOAJ is committed to keeping its services free of charge, including being indexed, and its data freely available.
Distributed Denial of Secrets archives and publishes hacked and leaked documents in the public interest.
DOS haven is a repository of modern DOS games. Why we’ve got plenty of new titles for almost every old platform, but just few for good old DOS powered IBM PC? Let’s do something about it. Let’s collect DOS games from 21st century and encourage others to make a new ones.
Download free DOS games with videos, and play online in your browser. Free forums & instructions to run games on your modern PC.
Problems or conjectures posed (either individually or jointly with others) by the great mathematician Paul Erdős who posed many challenging questions that have served as a benchmark of progress in many diverse fields of mathematics, particularly combinatorics and number theory.
Search, save and share art, books, films and music from thousands of cultural institutions
FigCat is an independent website maintained as a hobby project by one very obsessive person – me, wargaluk. I originally compiled most of these lists in my spare time for personal reference, simply because I was interested in the topics they cover; only after I had accumulated a lot of them over the years did it occur to me to update them and make them public. I hope some of them will be relevant to your own interests.
Flash fiction is a short story genre that focuses on brevity. Its aim is to convey a powerful tale in as few words as possible. At Story Shack we judge anything under 1.000 words to be flash fiction, and are proud of the high quality work by around 400 authors and over 50 illustrators.
Flashpoint Archive is a community effort to preserve games and animations from the web.
collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers. Have you freed your sound today?
The Geograph® Britain and Ireland project aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland, and you can be part of it.
GifCities is an Internet Archive project that provides a searchable database of animated GIFs extracted from GeoCities websites.
governmentattic.org provides electronic copies of thousands of interesting Federal Government documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Fascinating historical documents, reports on items in the news, oddities and fun stuff and government bloopers, they're all here.
GUIdebook is an online museum of graphical interfaces, especially those old, obscure and in desperate need of preservation. Whether you want just to look back and refresh some nice memories from years ago, or are interested in seeing how the GUIs evolved throughout the decades, I hope you’ll enjoy your stay.
This is the history of analog UHF television broadcasting, or at least, the parts of it that involved stations that, despite often-valiant attempts at success, ended up going dark.
I Have No TV is a curated list of documentaries, to offer you only the ones worth watching. No religion, conspiracies, aliens or pseudo-science in here.
Explore IKEA Museum and the history of IKEA to get new perspectives on life at home and design through stories, films, exhibitions and much more.
iNaturalist helps you identify the plants and animals around you while generating data for science and conservation.
Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music and more.
JetPhotos.com is the biggest database of aviation photographs with over 6 million screened photos online.
Free public domain audiobooks, narrated by real people.
Lyrics Translate is the world's largest repository of lyrics translations of songs and music videos.
Mac Themes Garden is dedicated to showcasing schemes made for Kaleidoscope and celebrating the customization and expressiveness it enabled on Classic Mac OS.
The Macintosh Garden is an abandonware archive, dedicated in particular to supporting the Macintosh computer platform. A notable feature of Macintosh Garden is its emphasis on emulation, encouraging users to run historical software on modern systems.
Search through 3.000.000 manuals online & and download pdf manuals.
Manuzoid is a free repository that includes user manuals for various products. These products range from kitchen appliances to other user products. You can either browse the manuals listed on the homepage or search for a product using keywords.
The Museum of ZZT is a site dedicated to the preservation and curation of the many games and worlds created with ZZT. ZZT is a text-mode game from 1991 created by Tim Sweeney of Epic Games.
NYPL's Digital Collections is a living database featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, video, and more unique research materials.
Archival project building a library of abandonware video games, manuals, screenshots and artwork. Our retrogaming library has 20,000+ downloads available for free public access.
Omniglot is an encyclopedia of writing systems and languages. You can use it to learn about languages, to learn alphabets and other writing systems, and to learn phrases, numbers and other things in many languages. There is also advice on how to learn languages.
The Tree of Life shows how all life on Earth is related. Each leaf represents a different species, and the branches illustrate how these many species evolved from common ancestors over billions of years.
Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.
A library of textbooks that are considered open because they are free to use and distribute, and are licensed to be freely adapted or changed with proper attribution.
OpenGameArt.org hosts a large library of user-created game assets available under various open-source licenses.
The Open Poetry Project is building an archive of public domain poetry to ensure that the world's heritage of verse remains freely accessible to all. This project is driven by the belief that poetry belongs to everyone. Its mission is to create the most accessible, searchable, and enjoyable collection of poetry in the public domain—so that anyone, anywhere, can explore the beauty of words, unbound.
OpenTrees.org is the world's largest database of municipal street and park trees, produced by harvesting open data from dozens of different sources.
Search over 800 million free and openly licensed images, photos, audio, and other media types for reuse and remixing.
Out-of-Print Archive is a group of people dedicated to preserving a part
of classic gaming that seems to be overlooked most of the time. Namely classic video game magazines.
PBS and our member stations are America’s largest classroom, the nation’s largest stage for the arts and a trusted window to the world. In addition, PBS's educational media helps prepare children for success in school and opens up the world to them in an age-appropriate way.
Free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses.
Poly Haven is a curated public asset library for visual effects artists and game designers, providing useful high quality 3D assets in an easily obtainable manner.
Community site for 3D printer users. Discover thousands of great printable 3D models, download them for free and read interesting articles about 3D printing.
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related content today.
Explore our hand-picked collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse. This is a living database with new images added every week.
Radio Garden invites you to explore live radio from around the world. By bringing distant voices close, radio connects people and places. From its very beginning, radio signals have crossed borders. Radio makers and listeners have imagined both connecting with distant cultures, as well as re-connecting with people from ‘home’ from thousands of miles away.
The goal of Sci-Hub is to provide free and unrestricted access to all scientific knowledge. Sci-Hub started as a tool for providing quick access to articles from scientific journals. Now Sci-Hub has grown a database of 88M research articles and books - freely accessible for anyone to read and download.
SciELO is a bibliographic database, digital library, and cooperative electronic publishing model of open access journals. SciELO was created to meet the scientific communication needs of developing countries and provides an efficient way to increase visibility and access to scientific literature.
The Smithsonian Institution is the world's largest museum, education, and research complex with 21 museums and the National Zoo.
Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover
The best source for free, CC0, do-what-you-want-with stock photos. Browse and download thousands of copyright-free stock images. No attribution required.
Free SVG Image & Icon. All contents are released under Creative Commons CC0.
Tapedeck was built to showcase the amazing beauty and (sometimes) weirdness found in the designs of the common audio tape cassette. There's an amazing range of designs, starting from the early 60's functional cassette designs, moving through the colourful playfulness of the 70's audio tapes to amazing shape variations during the 80's and 90's. We hope you enjoy these tapes as much as we do!
TASVideos is a community dedicated to discussing, creating, and showcasing TASes. TASes are speedruns (or superplays) that are made with the assistance of various tools.
Award Winning Encyclopedia of 80s Movies. 500+ retro favorites covered in depth, each with 8 pages of the best info.
The Art Institute of Chicago shares its singular collections with our city and the world. We collect, care for, and interpret works of art across time, cultures, geographies, and identities, centering the vision of artists and makers.
bitsavers.org is a website that serves as a large archive of historical computer documentation, software, and related materials.
The Chinese Text Project is an online open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the world. With over thirty thousand titles and more than five billion characters, the Chinese Text Project is also the largest database of pre-modern Chinese texts in existence.
The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
Investigating our computer and video game culture.
IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, reviews, recommendations, and more.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy. Since its founding in 1870, The Met has always aspired to be more than a treasury of rare and beautiful objects. Every day, art comes alive in the Museum's galleries and through its exhibitions and events, revealing new ideas and unexpected connections across time and across cultures.
The Multicians web site contains information about the history and features of the Multics operating system. Multics was a mainframe time-sharing operating system begun in 1965 and used until 2000. It was a major influence on subsequent computer operating systems.
At The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1, we celebrate creativity, openness, tolerance, and generosity. We aim to be inclusive places—both onsite and online—where diverse cultural, artistic, social, and political positions are welcome. We’re committed to sharing the most thought-provoking modern and contemporary art, and hope you will join us in exploring the art, ideas, and issues of our time.
The Retro Web aims at documenting as many pieces of hardware as possible, built entirely by volunteers, who code for the site/add new entries in their free time.
The Webcomic List presents a daily list of over 26700 updated web comics and online comics from all over the web.
The goal of The World War II Database is to offer interesting and useful information about WW2.
Download millions of 3D models and files for your 3D printer, laser cutter, or CNC.
tv.garden is your gateway to free live TV streaming from anywhere. Our goal is to make discovering and watching global channels as easy and enjoyable as possible. Explore a wide range of channels, including international news, live sports, movies, entertainment, and cultural shows.
This is a collection of drivers for vintage hardware, as collected and contributed by the upstanding members of the VOGONS Forums.
Wevidi.net is a video sharing service and a stylised revival of YouTube's layout from back in 2009.
Wikiart.org is the best place to find art online. Discover paintings and photographs in a searchable image database with artist biographies and artwork descriptions.
Wiktionary, a collaborative multilingual dictionary, aims to describe all words of all languages using definitions and descriptions in English. Wiktionary has grown beyond a standard dictionary and now includes a thesaurus, a rhyme guide, phrase books, language statistics and extensive appendices.
The Winamp Skin Museum is an attempt to build a fast, searchable, and shareable, interface for the collection of Winamp Skins amassed on the Internet Archive.
The WoS is the world's biggest and most popular archive of Spectrum related material. It plays host to a huge archive of software including utilities, games, tools, type-ins, TR-DOS games, et al. The archive also includes documentation, instructions for games, magazine scans, tape inlays and other assorted stuff.
The aim of a World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is to provide an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms, including information on synonymy.
This site offers is a glimpse into the history of writers and artists bound by the 128 characters that the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) allowed them.
yeggi is a search engine for printable 3D models
Did you ever wonder what happened to Disneyland’s Mine Train, Flying Saucers, or Indian Village? These and other attractions, restaurants, and shops are now collected in Yesterland, a theme park on the Web.