Links

"Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more."

Dedicated to finding (and sometimes preserving) lost media. The forums are home to search efforts large and small.

"Archiving on a voluntary, cooperative basis when current methods to keep your favorite files around are undesirable."

Recommendations for encrypted software!

A curated collection of text files from ye olden days of BBS. You can also easily download the files if you'd prefer to read them offline.

A search engine for Web 1.0 sites. I mostly just use the random page feature, though.

Enter your search, and gaze upon the eye-straining wall of GIFs harvested from GeoCities archives. They tend to get less relevant the farther you scroll, but sometimes you didn't know you needed something. Click on a GIF to see the site it's from.

A treasure trove of dream paintings and poetry by Epic Dewfall, an artist with schizotypal. This page lets you vote on two random paintings, and ranks the overall results.

A cryptic site featuring tracker music, art, and more by the collective "aanaaanaaanaaana".

This guy excels at making fake photographic sightings of hideous creatures.

Early pioneer of the "MS Paint" art style. By this I don't mean using MS Paint itself, but drawn with a mouse and embracing the limitations which come with that.

The published game is only the starting point.

Gotta get those ROMs from somewhere.

"The wiki dedicated to all things emulation."

A huge collection of CD-ROM adventure games and more.

All downloads are labeled as demos, but will actually contain the whole game.

"Welcome to The Obscuritory, a blog about odd, lesser-known games and software."

A bunch of games, dating from 1978 to 2012, which aren't available to buy officially anymore. I especially like looking through the Windows 3(.1) stuff.

Looking for an academic paper of some kind? This is a great way to find it, just paste in the DOI.

This page lists backup domains. Not all of them work, it's mildly sketchy. This is the domain I'd suggest at the time of writing, but this will likely go out of date quickly.

This site is better for textbooks specifically.

A command line tool for downloading videos (from untold numbers of sites, not just Youtube). This is an active fork of youtube-dl.

Possibly the pinnacle of humankind's acheivements.

This is built for modern operating systems, and comes with some slick options which aren't available in the original program.

Operating systems, applications, and games. For Winders™.

Ever wanted to put the entirety of Wikipedia on your hard drive? The program is a browser you can use to download and navigate a decent amount of wikis.

So, so many links related to getting your mitts on any type of media . There's also a lot of miscellaneous tools and even other site indexes to look through.

"... a documentary about an Internet subculture who spend their lives immersed in an online 3-D voice-chat program called "Digitalspace Traveler." Through a series of 14 interviews, we uncover the history, art, identities, struggles and emotions of this unique internet community who, since as far back as 1996 have mostly devoted their lives to this software."

Characters apparently drawn by children are brought to life, taking part in a wordless adventure which shifts focus like a dream.

If anyone can locate other animation shorts by Põldma, I would love to hear about it.

Surreal short animated on an Amiga 500.

Over an hour of Amiga-animated goodness.