Updated: 12/29/2005
Book/Ref
- !!Book_Ref NEW
- Free online books or collections of books, or free online references.
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- Baen Free Library
- A number of Baen books online. Mostly SF.
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http://www.baen.com/library/
- CIA Fact Book
- Facts on every country in the world.
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http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
- Common Content
- Lots of free media in lots of forms.
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http://commoncontent.org/
- Creative Commons , Rating: 4
- Free content, everything but software. This looks very good. Free stock photos, audio, books, and more.
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http://creativecommons.org/
- Eldritch Press
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http://www.eldritchpress.org
- Faqs.org
- Lists all Usenet FAQs.
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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.
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http://giuciao.altervista.org/free_books.html
- Google Open Content
- Also:
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http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Open_Source/
Open_Content/
- Harddrive info
- Lots of hard drive docs here along with hard drive FAQs.
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http://www.computercraft.com/docs/evstools.shtml
- Hardware Reference
- Technical hardware reference book.
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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/.
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www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/
- Ibiblio
- Free texts, journals, and more. Divided into sections like arts, history, geography, etc.
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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.
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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.
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http://www.mwright.plus.com/faq.htm
- Project Gutenberg
- Also at http://gutenberg.net/
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http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Literature/
Electronic_Text_Archives/Project_Gutenberg/
- Wikipedia
- An online encyclopedia made from scratch by the internet community.
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http://www.wikipedia.com