Bookmarks

Interesting, random, quirky, stumbles from the Internet.

• Archives
  • ACM Digital Library opened more than 117,500 articles published between 1951 and the end of 2000.
  • Animate Archive is a collection of Flash Installers from FutureSplash Animator (1996) to Adobe Flash CS6 Professional (2012).
  • BBC Micro Games Archive (Source at Github)
  • DPLA (Digital Public Library of America) has over 45+ millions of images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States.
  • History of the Web, Timeline View
  • MS-DOS Games (Internet Archive)
  • Obsolete Sounds is the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening.
  • Software Library (Internet Archive)
  • Version Museum showcases the visual history of popular websites, operating systems, applications, and games that have shaped our lives.
  • Vintage Apple collects information from the early Apple era.
  • Web Design Museum Discover Forgotten Trends in Web Design.
  • Whole Earth is a nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the Whole Earth Catalog, published by Stewart Brand and the POINT Foundation between 1970 and 2002. Also at The Internet Archive's Whole Earth collection.
  • WinWorld Library
  • World Wide Web Project Proposal - history, Proposal for a HyperText Project by Tim Berners-Lee (1989)
• Alternatives
  • Alternative To
  • Open Source Alternative To - Discover 500+ popular open source alternatives to your proprietary SaaS.
• Books
  • Book of Secret Knowledge is a collection of inspiring lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools, and more.
  • Book Search over 28+ Million Books from Open Library.
  • Books - Programming (Source)
  • Project Gutenberg is a library of over 70,000 free eBooks.
  • Standard Books is a project that takes transcriptions of public domain literature, like the kind typically available at Project Gutenberg, and creates beautiful, modern ebooks out of them using a detailed style manual.
• Entertainment (Movies, TV)
  • 35mm has thousands of classic Polish and other films.
  • My 90s TV
  • Netflix-Codes
  • Radio Garden invites you to tune into thousands of live radio stations across the globe.
• Data
  • Smithsonian Open Access download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images, without asking.
• Information
  • WikEM, The Global Emergency Medicine Wiki, is the world's largest and most popular emergency medicine open-access reference resource.
  • Instead of Very help you use the correct words instead of using the intensifiers “very”.
• Printable
  • Graph Paper
  • PaperQuik The Paper You Need - Available Right Away.
  • Printable Puzzle Project A curated collection of designer mechanical puzzles, rendered in precisely tuned, fully tested models for 3D printing.
  • Sketchize is built for UI/UX Designers to help them design lovely apps for mobile, tablet, and desktop devices.
  • David Shea’s Downloadable Productivity Tools are designed to be used throughout the day in printed form. You can use them with an existing system, and you don’t have to use all of them together.
• Satellites
  • Satellite Tracker in 3D
  • Satellite Tracker by LeoLabs.
• Security & Privacy
  • AmIUnique Learn how identifiable you are on the Internet.
  • Cover Your Tracks See how trackers view your browser.
  • CyberSecTools - The Largest Curated Directory of Cybersecurity Tools and Resources.
  • Email Marketing Regulations around the world.
  • Google Safe Browsing
  • Is BGP safe yet? Test if your ISP implements BGP safely.
  • Simple Opt Out (source) Opt out of all the data sharing you wouldn't opt in to. This is very USA-Specific but, well, almost all of Internet tools that we use are USA-ed.
  • Unblock Domain If you've recently registered a domain, you might want to contact common security filters proactively and request that the domain be categorized with some appropriate category.
  • URLScan
  • VirusTotal Analyse suspicious files, domains, IPs and URLs to detect malware and other breaches.
• Tools
  • What is my ZIP
  • What is my Address
  • ADDR.tools - possibly useful tools for the Internet.
    • DNSCheck.tools is a tool to test for DNS leaks, DNSSEC validation, and more.
    • myip.addr.tools get your public IP address
  • AdBlock Tester
  • ASCIInema - record and share your terminal sessions, the simple way.
  • ASCIIFlow
  • ASCII Silhouettify is an app that converts images into ASCII silhouettes, a style of ASCII art distinguished by uniformly filled geometric shapes rather than lines or textures.
  • BBC Sound Effects are made available by the BBC in WAV format to download for use under the terms of the RemArc Licence. The Sound Effects are BBC copyright, but they may be used for personal, educational or research purposes, as detailed in the license.
  • CyberChef - The Cyber Swiss Army Knife.
  • blip: a tool for seeing your Internet latency. source
  • DNSChecker provides a free DNS propagation check service to check Domain Name System records against a selected list of DNS servers in multiple regions worldwide.
  • DNSPerf - DNS Performance Analytics and Comparison.
  • DNSViz is a tool for visualizing the status of a DNS zone.
  • How I Experience Web Today
  • I Know What You Downloaded
  • ICANN DOMAINS
  • LinkChecker is a free, GPL licensed website validator. LinkChecker checks links in web documents or full websites. It runs on Python 3 systems, requiring Python 3.7 or later. (Source)
  • Look Scanned makes your PDFs look scanned!
  • Nearly Free Speech is about three things: fairness, innovation, and free speech.
  • NSLookup - find all DNS records for a domain name.
  • Open Culture The best free cultural & educational media on the web.
  • Open Source Music Production Tools
  • Open Source Stash
  • Open Sustainable Technology, Github Source
  • PageSpeed Insights by Google
  • Devices
    • Monitor Test
  • Files
    • File Pizza is an open-source peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser.
    • LanDrop is an open-source way to drop any files to any devices on your LAN.
    • LocalSend Share files to nearby devices. Free, open source, cross-platform.
    • Pairdrop
    • ShareDrop is a free, open-source web app that allows you to easily and securely share files directly between devices without uploading them to any server first.
    • Snapdrop is an open-source Progressive Web App for local file sharing.
    • WebWormhole is an open-source utility that lets you send files from one computer to another.
    • Wormhole lets you share files with end-to-end encryption and a link that automatically expires.
  • Audio
    • Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web.
  • PDF
    • PDFUX Powerful and easy to use PDF tools.
    • Online PDF Editor from Sedja is a free and private PDF editor.
    • DocSend2PDF
    • Small PDF
  • Pictures
    • Colourise - Colorize Photo Online Free with AI.
    • Photopea is a free (donate-ware) online Photo editor.
    • Vectorpea is a free (donate-ware) online vector graphics editor.
    • Photoroom - create professional images with AI photo editor.
  • QR Code Generator
  • Quick Reference cheatsheets and quick references contributed by open source angels.
  • ShareDrop P2P File transfer across devices in the same Network.
  • Speedtest
    • Fast by Netflix
    • Speed by Cloudflare
    • Speedtest
    • Test My Net
  • SVG
    • SVGViewer is an online SVG Optimizer.
  • Tineye Reverse Image Search
  • Txtify Convert web articles to plain text
  • USB-C tries to help you find the right USB-C for you or you can just browse and learn more.
  • Webperf Tests tools to test Webpage Performance.
  • Who is my ISP
• Environment
  • ShadeMap Simulate sun shadows for any time and place on Earth.
• Fun, Lab & Experiments
  • 2050.Earth is a site about the future as seen through the eyes of futurologists, scientists, and Internet users from all corners of the globe.
  • America Road Trip Simulation
  • Copy-n-Paste TextArt
  • How Stuff Works
  • I have NO TV - watch free online documentaries.
  • Let’s get Creative is a collection of high-quality, free, online creativity tools.
  • Population - The journey of your life in numbers and dates!
  • Sunset Videos (live) from around the world.
  • Tiny Undervalued Hardware Companions appreciate the small but handy valuable stuff, like adapters or handlers. (archive)
  • Tomu is a family of devices which fit inside your USB port. The Tomu family are a group of tiny boards designed to fit inside your USB port. All of the Tomu family have both open source firmware and open source hardware.
  • The Electronic Connector Book by Davide Andrea is a practical guide and catalog of all the connecting components used in the electronic industry.
  • xLights is a free and open source program that enables you to design, create and play amazing lighting displays through the use of DMX controllers, E1.31 Ethernet controllers and more.
• Others (Sort ’EM)
  • Awesome CTO resources for Startup CTOs.
  • Awesome Github Actions
  • Awesome List about all kinds of interesting topics.
  • Awesome Mac (source)
  • Awesome macOS Open Source Apps
  • Awesome Public Datasets
  • Awesome Selfhosted (source)
  • Datasette is an open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data.
  • Diamonds Suck! Web Archive
  • Fold-n-Fly Paper Airplane Designs
  • Free Dev Tools
  • Free Software and Self-Hosted Web Apps
  • Hello Inbox is an Email Deliverability Checklist & Toolkit
  • Simple Mobile Tools - a group of simple, open source Android apps without ads and unnecessary permissions, with customizable colors.
  • Source Codes of very old programs by Dave Dunfield of Dunfield Development Services.