Stuff around the internet

Personal hoard of sites, articles, resources, and free shit

Worldbuilding and writing

Writing

Sejda - free online PDF editing tool. Would have saved me if I knew about this one sooner...
Connected papers - makes a tree diagram of related papers that are clustered based on topic relatability and colour-coded by time they were produced
Writer Beware - Site for advice and scam-avoidance aimed at writers
Turn your text into pitman shorthand text
Babylonian cuneiforme translator
Collection of different writing and worldbuilding tools
Reverse dictionary - type in the definition and get the word
Green's dictionary of slang - slang throughout history
Time-traveler - look up when a word was used in print for the first time
Online OCR - Convert text in images to real text
Typewriter database - Source of typewriter serial numbers
Onym - Guides and resources for naming and linguistics

(Mostly european) History

General

Timeline of inventions
Look up historical events by date
The food timeline - if a bit USA focused
A world atlas site
History of cartography
Calculating empires - Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500

Ancient history

Neanderthal fibrework found in France
On learning ancient sankrit online
Article on a possible origin of some ancient civilizations
The Assyrian dictionary - from the university of Chicago

The classics

Encyclopedia of the hellenic world
Theoi - a comprehensive guide to greek mythology
Digital atlas of the roman empire
The myth encyclopedia
Bryn Mawr Classical review - magazine of reviews for works about classical studies
De Imperatoribus Romanis - encyclopedia of roman emperors
Pleiades - search for ancient places around the mediterranean
Textkit - forum for learning greek and latin
The Golden Bough - a study of magic and religion by Sir James George Frazer

The european middle ages

The prose Edda - Translated by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur in 1916
Viking Answer Lady - Viking history and mythology
Project Forlog - reconstruction and reenactment of early middle ages
The riddle ages - riddle collections from the early english medieval period
Asinus docet - Articles on the middle ages
Two sources on names in the european middle ages
DMNES - Dictionary of medieval names from european sources
The medieval bestiary - includes sources!
Guide to sewing a medieval bliaut dress
History of carts and carriages
Larsdatter - Material culture of the european middle ages and reinassance
Reconstruyendo Sevilla sobre 1300 a través de sus gastos
Currency converter - England 1270 to 2017
Gode Cookery - medieval recipes
Alcoholic drinks of the Middle Ages - History and recipes
List of ranks and titles in eurpean antiquity and middle ages - this is just the wikipedia article
Map of english mythology and folklore
Medieval England: Magic as an industry
Article on the cagots in medieval France
Articles on the middle ages - go with adblocker
Viabundus - medieval travel times
Medieval dyeing

Heraldry

Guide to european heraldry
Book on samurai heraldry
Zimbabwe and Rhodesian heraldry

On the more recent side of things

Research on the 16th century novel 'Journey to the west'
Learn to approximate middle english
A 3D reconstruction of Tenochtitlan
Turtle island decolonized - map of indigenous names in 'North America'
Atiqot - articles on israeli archaeology
21 superheroes of Kenya - google arts and culture
History of costumes book from ca.1861-1880
Not up to dick - Some victorian slang
The old robots - history of robots

Resource collections

Libraries

The anti-colonial research library
Library of free-to-read-online books, mostly non-fiction
Project Gutenberg - Library of books in the public domain
The vatican library
The bodelian library
Perseus - Digital library for history and mythology
The Met museum - has free downloads of its out-of-publication books

Academia and other collections

Download a guide to free academic resources
Collection of translated documents fron antiquity to modern day
Art history resource collection
International database of architecture
The museum of Berlin
Medieval sourcebook
Internet archive of books on architecture
Native languages of the americas website and resource masterlist
The wood database
List of resources for classical studies
Folktext - Collection of European folktales and mythology
Yokai - Online database of japanese folktales

Practical knowledge

The family handyman - learn to diy
Engineering toolbox - Information and tools for engineering and technical applications
Library for rebuilding a civilization
Learn ancient languages online
Multi-language sign language dictionary

Fun

Anti-capitalism

Marginalia - search the small internet, personal website, and non-commodified sources. This is how I found a lot of these links
12 foot ladder - remove paywalls
Just beam it - peer to peer file sharing site, with no limits. Drop your file, send the link, and keep your PC open on the page while the other person downloads it
Cobalt tools - YT to mp3 converter
Map of the urban harvest
Dumpster map - with reviews
Should I remove it - remove bloatware from your computer
ToS;DR - Summarizes the Terms of Service in easy to understand language for different websites and grades them

Cow tools

Country-centered map projections
Onebag - Traveller's guide to packing lightly
Family tree maker
Checklist maker - Very bare-bones but it's free and requires no account-making
Currency calculator
Stellarium - see the night sky online in real time
Light pollution map
Crafty amigo - Design a DIY project
Have I been pwned? - Check if you e-mail has been compromised in a data breach
Make websites printer friendly or into PDF
Temporary mail - Make a temporary mail address for throwaway accounts
Catbox - File hosting up to 200mb
Squidge - Image hosting site for fandom purposes
Dark patterns - Find patterns in games designed to cause addiction
Ground news - Compare articles from newssources across the political spectrum
Hybrid calisthenics - free and accessible workout routines

Info and fun facts

Ian's shoelace site - lace your shoes not only for the aesthetic but also to suit your feet dimensions
The deep sea - scrollable infographic
3D Mosaic model of mars
If the moon were only 1 pixel
What the earth skies look like under foreign suns, and also plants
Astronomy picture of the day - by NASA
Every country's most famous mythical creature
Article on the 'Sans forgetica' font
Guide to Martin Scorsese's greatest mafia movie: Goncharov (1973) Invented in 2022

Games and time-killers

Cloudhiker - click and discover a random website on the internet. This is also how I discovered some sites on here
Window swap - open a window somewhere in the world
Virtual vacation - experience the world from your home
Geoscents - find capitals on a map as accurately as possible
Metazooa - daily guessing game for species
Origami.me - detailed instructions for learning origami
Free online sudoku game
Daydoku - daily polinomial-based puzzle
Sudokuland - sudoku with pixel landscapes instead of numbers
Make your own historical tale on the bayeux tapestry
Instructables - DIY fun projects
Instructional and educational VHS tapes - the archive.org collection you can watch for free. Some of these tapes are a doozy
Squishy earth - use the moon to kick it across the screen
Rotating sandwiches - that's it
Sandart
Make 45 categories of 45 items - by combining two at a time
Wikigacha - Gacha game with wikipedia articles as collectible battle cards
MyAbandonware - download free abandonware games legally
The new devil's dictionary - comedy and black humour
Star Trek fonts
Windows 98 simulator
Old-school PC fonts - from DOS-era IBM PCs and compatibles
Dafont - free and downloadable fonts and a reddit guide for installing on neocities using a webfont generator

Audio

Bongo cat
Radio.garden - Listen to radio stations from all around the world
Radiooooo - Listen to music from different countries and eras in the past
Archive of music concerts - on the internet archive
Purrli - Online cat purr maker
KFPA radio - US-based community led radio station with free online program
Online spectogram
Every noise at once - map of every musical genre
Tree FM - listen to forests around the world
Online piano

Image

Photopea - Free online alternative to photoshop
SameEnergy - for finding similar pictures. Pinterest but better credited
Fotoforensics - Analyze an image for free
Tiny PNG - Image compression
RedKetchup - Image modifying tools
Whereisthis - Find out where a picture was taken

Science

Eleanor Lutz's scientific infographics
The inner workings of a mechanical watch. Check out also the ones on naval architecture and bicycles.
Severalsites about gemstones
Mechanics and hazards of tunneling
DNA explained for programmers - article: DNA seen through the eyes of a coder (or, If you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail)
The tree of life - zoom endlessly through the evolutionary tree
Human anatomy and physiology - Douglas college
Online balancer - Chemical equation balancer

Flora and fauna

How animals communicate - online book
Crab database
Cryptochrome - how birds see earth's magnetic field
Guide on foraging in northern forests of the US
Plantas silvestres comestibles y ornamentales - forum
Find cities with a similar climate
Weeds of Melbourne
Plants poisonous to pets
Mushroom expert - mushroom information unrelated to their edibility

Environmentalism

Plant based 'Vegan spider silk' as a single plastics alternative - article
Namibia is turning sewage into drinkable water - article
Algae chandelier purifies air - art expo
World’s First All-Timber Wind Turbine Blades - are Cheaper, Recyclable, Fire-Resistant and Stronger than Carbon Fiber (article)
Portugese pig-farming that relies on trees - (article)
The school book of forestry - from 1922
Visible temperature change around the globe - bar graphs that can be specified as by continent, country and region
Hundred rabbits - research and testing of low-tech solutions on a sailboat

Guides and DIY

Downloadable collection of documents on homesteading and rebuilding civilization
Container gardening guide
Low tech lab - homesteading, agriculture, sustainable technology althought the article titles are in french, most are also available in other languages
Practical action - Urbanism and agriculture resource center for practical knowledge
Appropedia - Encyclopedia on sustainable practices and technology
How to build a low-tech internet and some regional networks in Spain, Austria, and Germany
Jam microphones from recording you - github
Re-using solar panel fragments to make a high-powered solar panel - guide on instructables.net
ifixit - guides to repairing your own devices
This to that - glue advice
Open source wheelchairs - how to build em on the cheap

ICT and the internet

CSS transitions
Background blender for CSS
CSS tricks - and guides
Cheat sheets - for CSS, HTML, and javascript
Codepen - testing grounds for HTML CSS and JS
PHP by example - some basics of PHP
UIverse - open source UI elements
Accessiblenet - resources for coding accessibility features
Tiny tools directory - open-source, experimental, and tiny tools
Portable freeware
Forum for pi-hole
Small dev tools - Free tools for developers
Introduction to Linux - free course

Other

The jewish calendar in Canada
The devotionalistic gods in hinduism - book
Scorecards for chocolate - different ethical considerations
Cultural atlas of Australia's migrant population
Wikirug - encyclopedia of persian and oriental carpets
A critical look at anarcho-punk - collection of essays and interviews
NZ on screen - repository of new zealand and māori filmmaking and content
The Dante course - Free video lectures on the Divine Comedy
Shopping in Pyongyang, and Other Adventures in North Korean Capitalism - New York Times article (14th Feb. 2019)
Forvo - a pronounciation dictionary

Queer and here

Map of gender diverse cultures
Oh joy sex toy - Inclusive sex ed, comics, and sex toy reviews
Queering the map - Queer experiences lived and pinned onto a world map - you can add your own
Glossary of polari
Making queer history - articles and podcasts on queer history around the world - you can search specific country tags
Queer Zine Archive Project
The Asexuality and Aromanticism Bibliography - with collections for reading and teaching

Visual art

Drawing and references

Art tutorials on deviantart
On building a palette
Body visualizer in 3D
Character posing tool
Light reference tool for a male, toned, head
Reference angle website for animals - pick an animal, angle the model skull, and you will geta series of reference photos
Nappy.co Free, stereotype-free stock photos of black and brown people
Adorkastock - Online pose sketching app with timer, also has a free pose gallery
Posemaniacs - pose references
Line of action - reference photos and practice tools
Comicsdevices - library of visual devices used in comics
Rarebit - free webcomic template
Salvaged.nu - Recovered photoshop resources from the 2000's

Textures and pixel art

Free texture stock photos
Free pattern collection
Build your own free textures by combining colour and pattern
Collection of seamless textures
Make pixel icons online, or pixel art in general

Fibre arts

Sewing

Freesewing.org - generate sewing patterns for your own measurements
Google drive on the basics of sewing
CoPAArchive of historical commercial sewing patterns
Encyclopedia of needlework
Draft pattern for pants - guide
Patterns for medieval hoods - and how to draft your own
Sewing harem pants and pantaloons
Plague doctor mask - sewing pattern and tutorial
Sewing a denim whale
Plushify - make plush toy sewing patterns from 3D models

Fabrics and fashion

Edwardian manual of needlework and cutting out - online book on the internet archive
Mode in hats and headdresses - book on the internet archive about hat fashion history from 1952
Claire Hummel's Historical Fashion Reference & Resources - on google drive
The antique pattern library - scans of public domain publications

Spinning and weaving

Joy of hand-spinning - website with guides
Tablet weaving - and other fibre crafts
Weaving on a backstrap loom
The ancient art of tablet weaving - the basics