Updated: 12/29/2005
Book/Ref
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Free online books or collections of books, or free online references. [Report a dead link]

Baen Free Library
A number of Baen books online. Mostly SF. [Report a dead link]
http://www.baen.com/library/

CIA Fact Book
Facts on every country in the world. [Report a dead link]
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

Common Content
Lots of free media in lots of forms. [Report a dead link]
http://commoncontent.org/

Creative Commons , Rating: 4
Free content, everything but software. This looks very good. Free stock photos, audio, books, and more. [Report a dead link]
http://creativecommons.org/

Eldritch Press
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http://www.eldritchpress.org

Faqs.org
Lists all Usenet FAQs. [Report a dead link]
www.faqs.org

Free books
Quite a handful of free online books about tech subjects. Includes subjects like: unix, linux, html, dhtml, MS Office, Flash hacking, some "Dummies" books, C programming, Java server, Que Upgrading Laptops, some O'Reilly books. [Report a dead link]
http://giuciao.altervista.org/free_books.html

Google Open Content
Also: [Report a dead link]
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Open_Source/ Open_Content/

Harddrive info
Lots of hard drive docs here along with hard drive FAQs. [Report a dead link]
http://www.computercraft.com/docs/evstools.shtml

Hardware Reference
Technical hardware reference book. [Report a dead link]
http://www.hwb.acc.umu.se/

Hayes AT modem commands
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http://www.computercraft.com/docs/hayescom.shtml

Hyperwar NEW
Hyperwar puts online lots of texts about WWII. Another Ibiblio org is the Pearl Harbor Association which I think is at www.ibiblio.org/pha/. [Report a dead link]
www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/

Ibiblio
Free texts, journals, and more. Divided into sections like arts, history, geography, etc. [Report a dead link]
http://www.ibiblio.org/

Internet Archive NEW
Stores all sites from the Internet from the past few years. If your favorite site has gone offline, check for it here. As of Dec 2005 they archived 40 billion pages. I don't know if they saved ZIP files or non-html though. But they do have sections for archive images, movies, and audio. [Report a dead link]
www.archive.org

Internet Public Library
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http://www.ipl.org

Jan's Hardware Site
Lots of HW related info: links to manufacturers, etc. [Report a dead link]
http://www.mwright.plus.com/faq.htm

Project Gutenberg
Also at http://gutenberg.net/ [Report a dead link]
http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Literature/ Electronic_Text_Archives/Project_Gutenberg/

Wikipedia
An online encyclopedia made from scratch by the internet community. [Report a dead link]
http://www.wikipedia.com