So Far... Some Cool Sites

Archival / Data:

• The Internet Archive: The Modern Library of Alexandria that is being threated by capitalism.
• WinWorld: Operating system archive.

Books:

• Anna's Archive: A great resource for paywalled research papers, etc.
• Goodreads: A website where you can rate books and get recommended books based on your taste.

Guides:

• Awesome Piracy: A rough guide on piracy with many outlinks to resources.
• Beginner's Guide to Piracy: A rough guide on piracy with many outlinks to resources.
• Champagne Piracy: A rough guide on piracy with many outlinks to resources.
• Free Media Heck Yeah!: A rough guide on piracy with many outlinks to resources.
• Megathread: A rough guide on piracy with many outlinks to resources.

Indie Web:

• 14ch_eternal-gomez: Intriguing RPG Maker games.
• Digital Blasphemy: Homegrown 3D wallpapers.
• drawing.garden: A very relaxing screen painting site.
• I Code 4 Coffee: Cool video game hacking experiments.
• MathChan: 4chan but you have to solve a math problem instead of a captcha to post.
• Nathan's Toasty Technology: Classic Microsoft hatred.
• Neocities: A discovery and creation platform for the independent web.
• Spark, Bang, Buzz: Cool homemade electronics.
• The Seventh Art: In depth writings about cinema.
• Visual Paradox: Homegrown 3D wallpapers, but sadly inactive.

Math:

• Khan Academy: Some of the better lectures for beginner level math.

Music:

• Album Art Exchange: Some really high res cover scans but blocks VPNs and requires an account to download.
• Bandcamp: Good discovery platform for new indie music.
• Bull of Heaven: One of the most creative musical projects of the 21st century.
• Cover Search Engine: The best search engine for high quality cover art.
• Discogs: The best music database for collections.
• /mu/ Wiki: The board sucks but the charts they produce are good introductions to genres. Fandom took down this wiki JUST because it has the name 4chan associated with it. Grab an archive here: Archive.org Update: Some /mu/tants are rebuilding the wiki using Mirahaze!
• Rate Your Music: The best music database for ratings and reviews. I wouldn't recommend interacting with the community though.
• Soyboy Radio: A chronically online (in a good way) internet radio.
• Whiskey Clone: Beck archives.
• Xerces Blau: An audio/visual project by James Ferraro & Ezra Miller that is sadly missing videos now.

Programming:

• Advent of Code: Cool programming challenges released in December every year.
• LearnCPP: The best way to learn C++.

Technology:

• AirVPN: The best VPN that supports port forwarding.
• Install Gentoo Wiki v2: The new Install Gentoo wiki.
• Louis Rossmann's Introduction to a Self Managed Life: A guide on how to start self hosting services on your own server.
• Mullvad VPN: The best VPN that doesn't support port forwarding.
• WineHQ: Rarely used anymore but a decent repository of Wine compatability reports.

Utilities:

• Ad-Link Bypasser: Bypass those stupid Linkvertise and ad.fly type URLs.
• Consumer Action Taskforce Wiki: Louis Rossmann's wiki that catalogues bad practices of many popular brands / companies so you can make more informed decisions on what you purchase.
• IPLeak: Check if your VPN is leaking your real IP address to websites.
• TinEye: Reverse image search that actually works (fuck Google!).
• Ushorten It: Link unshortener (duh).
• VirusTotal: Online virus scan, don't take it to heart, but it's a good filter.

Video Games:

• HowLongToBeat: A video game backlog tracker/helper.
• Humble Bundle: Deep video game discounts with a large portion of the proceeds going to charity.
• Itch: Like Bandcamp but for video games.
• My Abandonware: A repository of abandonware video games that are no longer sold by the original publishers.
• Myrient: Large & easy to navigate collection of ROMs and other video game related media.
• PriceCharting: Discogs for video games.
• ProtonDB: WineHQ for Steam and actually active.
• Torrminatorr: Large collection of scene video games, requires an account to view links.
• /v/ Wiki: /v/ used to actually play video games, good ones too.
• Vimm's Lair: A large ROM collection, has since been hit with takedown notices for bigger IPs. Fill in holes with Myrient. ROM hacks and manuals are still fully intact.