Archives

Sites which store things

Archives are collections which contain the actual thing they are cataloging. For the purposes of this list, a collection of pictures of something is an archive, a collection of texts is an archive, but just descriptions of things possibly found elsewhere is not an archive.

Arts and Crafts

Archives focused around arts and crafts, broadly inclusive.
Animated Knots
"Animated Knots by Grog is the web’s #1 site for learning how to tie knots. From Boating Knots, Fishing Knots and Climbing Knots to tying a tie, or even Surgical Knots — we’ve got it covered."
"Follow along as ropes tie themselves, showing just the essential steps, so you can master a knot in no time. Jump into any category to get started. If you’re unsure where to begin, try starting with the Basics, our Knot of the Day, Grog’s Blog or check out every knot we’ve got!"
ArtShield
Sweeper: "Scan A.I.’s primary datasets to see if your images have potentially been trained on. Take action towards removing your images from being picked up by A.I. tools."
Watermarker: "Apply ArtShield’s robust invisible watermark to your images to help camouflage them against A.I. robot scrapers."
Centuries Sewing
"Historical Costumes and Clothing".
Fountain Pen Network
Forum and gallery for fountain pen users and enthusiasts.
Friendship-bracelets.net
Crowd-sourced site of friendship bracelet examples, patterns, and tutorials.
GIMP image editor
"The Free & Open Source Image Editor"
Maker World
3D model library/community. Accepts genAI models but requires them to be labeled.
Margo's Beadie Critter Collection
"Over 1400 FREE patterns!"
Randal's Friends
"Randal’s Friends (RANFREN) is a series of surreal comics about a young person and his brother, along with the catmen people and other friends in their house in the mysterious Great Canadian suburbs where anything can happen. Randal has friends such as dolls which he can talk to and his new human pet Sebastian de Tomato Smith Chicken legs, who doesn’t quite seem to belong. Join them as they experience being people, the best that they can anyways. ."
Rosalie Gilbert
"Designed as a springboard for those who wish to learn a little more about the medieval woman: what she wears and why, how to be beautiful according to medieval standards, her personal hygiene and a little about a medieval woman’s life - clothing and dress accessories, celebrations and the customs associated with key events in her life- births, deaths, marriages, employment, education, pets and how she spent her days at home and on holidays."
Sentimental Baby
Personal blog, frequently discusses knitting, sewing, and books on fiber arts. Last updated 2015.
Sheep and Stitch
"Sheep & Stitch is more than just a site for knitting tutorials, patterns and inspiration. It’s based on a larger philosophy that everyone is a creator."
The Creator's Guide to Comics Devices
"This library will give you (creator, amateur, scholar, etc) practical instruction on devices that are available in comics."
The Twisted Yarn
"Here is my blog, all about knitting and crocheting colour into my home in the Oxfordshire countryside (a converted old brewery with a wonky tower). When I’m not busy with yarn, I’m a clinical psychologist and mother of small twins. I also write a quarterly column for Simply Knitting magazine."

Other

Archives which didn't neatly fit into any categories listed above.
3D NIH
"NIH 3D is an open, community-driven portal to download, share, and create bioscientific and medical 3D models for 3D printing and interactive 3D visualization, including virtual and augmented reality."
Ancient Greek Musical Notation
Unicode character codes and names for symbols used in Ancient Greek musical notation.
Archive Buttons
"All of the paywall removers in one place... Simply enter the URL of the article and click the archive buttons to remove any paywall."
Archive of Our Own
"A fan-created, fan-run, nonprofit, noncommercial archive for transformative fanworks, like fanfiction, fanart, fan videos, and podfic."
Archives of Nethys
Information about Pathfinder (1st Edition).
Aromantic and Asexual Characters Database
A searchable database of aromantic and asexual characters in prose fiction.
Audacity
"Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Audacity is free, open source software."
Bandle
"Our band will play a popular song’s chorus, but some musicians are arriving late... Guess the song from the drummer’s beat, if not, maybe the bassist’s tune will help. Answer with the least musicians playing as possible and share your score!"
Behind the Name
"[T]he etymology and history of first names".
Character Design References
"Welcome to our visual library! All the material here is organized into specific boards, each containing reference sheets, tutorials, video tutorials, sketches, production art, illustrations, and various other resources to inspire you and help you connect ideas and convey emotions for your own projects."
Chunkbase
Tool for Minecraft Java or Bedrock players to input world seeds and output the intended location of various world structures.
CK-12
"The CK-12 Foundation was founded with the mission to enable everyone to learn in his or her own way. We pair high quality content with the latest technologies. We equip students, teachers, and parents with everything they need. For free."
CodePen
"CodePen is a social development environment. At its heart, it allows you to write code in the browser, and see the results of it as you build. A useful and liberating online code editor for developers of any skill, and particularly empowering for people learning to code. We focus primarily on front-end languages like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and preprocessing syntaxes that turn into those things."
ComicFury
"ComicFury webcomic hosting is a free, easy to use and advertisement-free tool that will help you easily set up and host a website for your webcomic, without any technical knowledge. All you will have to worry about when using ComicFury is actually making the comics, the rest is provided by us."
Discord Timestamp Generator
"Discord Timestamps are generated using Discord’s Syntax".
DIY Book Design
"an easy-to-use tool for making book mockups and 3D covers."
Down for Everyone or Just Me
"Check if a website or app is down for everyone or just you."
E-Fauna BC
"E-Fauna BC is a biogeographic atlas of the wildlife species of British Columbia. It includes a significant citizen science data component."
Embodi 3d
"We offer the largest, most reputable, and fastest growing library of affordable medical 3D printable models. Search through thousands of models and files, each based on real medical scans, for use in medicine, veterinary practice, and anthropology."
Epocrates
"Since 1998, epocrates has served essential, continually researched and updated clinical content to more than a million users. Get to know the app our clinicians have called "my second brain" and "absolutely essential to modern practice.""
Etymonline
"Online Etymology Dictionary...This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they’re explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago."
Expat Info Desk
"Explore our professionally written city guides written by expats for global nomads and expatriates. Explore, Live, Enjoy"
Fontspace
"130,000+ Free Fonts... Free downloads of legally licensed fonts that are perfect for your design projects."
Freesound.org
"Freesound aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, and all sorts of bleeps, ... released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse."
Height Comparison
"We purposely created this free online tool to be uncomplicated and user-friendly, because you don’t need any added stress in your life! Let’s take things step by step on how to efficiently use this height comparison tool. Stick around to get the scoop on the multiple scenarios and reasons you can utilize this tool!... Are you in the midst of remodeling your home, some new furniture you want to get your hands on, wanting to see which of your favorite fictional characters are the tallest, or shamelessly compare your height to your favorite celebrity? All these scenarios [and more] can be thoroughly accomplished with our handy dandy height comparison tool."
HORG
"The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group: A Database of Synthetic Taxonomy".
I Need A Book Cover
"Your book deserves a custom cover. We do not endorse the use of premades. Learn about the book cover design process from industry veterans. Save time and let available professionals contact YOU."
I Want to be a Voice Actor
"Welcome to the web’s most comprehensive resource covering the art, craft and career of voice acting! This site is for all levels of ability- from those utterly new to voice acting to amateurs to working pros. You’ll find no fees and no ads- just practical, encouraging insight."
Ian’s Shoelace Site
"Fun, fashion & science in the Internet’s #1 website about shoelaces – and home of the Ian Knot, the world’s fastest shoelace knot. If you want to lace shoes, tie shoes or learn about shoelaces – this is the place!"
Instructables
"Instructables are created by you. No matter who you are, we all have secret skills to share. Come join our community of curious makers, innovators, teachers, and life long learners who love to share what they make."
Japan Foundation Toronto (JFT)
"Use your JFT library card to borrow materials from the library and access digital collection... You may apply for a JFT Library card if you are: 14 years of age and over[;] Residing in Canada from the date of application for at least three months."
Javascript Info
"An Introduction to JavaScript... Let’s see what’s so special about JavaScript, what we can achieve with it, and what other technologies play well with it."
JSTOR
"Explore the world’s knowledge, cultures, and ideas... Search journals, books, images, and primary sources"
LGBTQIA Wiki
"The LGBTQIA+ Wiki is a resource of LGBTQIA+ terminology and labels used by various queer communities, as well as the questioning and/or curious. The wiki is designed to be a helpful resource for explaining identities both known and unknown."
Live Well Bake Often
"Here at Live Well Bake Often you’ll find hundreds of classic baked goods and desserts that I’ve created in my own kitchen. All of the recipes on my site are tested multiple times to ensure their accuracy. You’ll also find step-by-step instructions and as much detail as possible with each recipe because I want you to have 100% success when you make them. My hope is that Live Well Bake Often will be your ultimate resource for baking. I want you to feel completely confident when it comes to making any recipe on my site – even if you’ve never baked from scratch in your entire life."
MessyBeast
"Messybeast.com ("Messybeast") is a privately maintained, not-for-profit archive of cat-related articles, information and clip-art. Messybeast is not a company, charity or non-profit organisation. Its main emphasis is cat care, cat welfare, feral cats and associated information for cat owners. It also contains general interest articles ranging from cloning and genetics through to the role of cats in idiom and urban mythology. A number of relatively scientific and technical topics are presented in plain English, making them accessible to those without a scientific background."
Mogai Wiki
"You’ve landed at the MOGAI Wiki — An inclusive Wiki on Miraheze for every MOGAI identity, where anyone can edit."
MOGAI Wiki
"This wiki was made to catalog and organize MOGAI identities. Our goal is to provide an easier way to find the definitions, flags, and creators for niche identities which otherwise may be difficult to find. Check out the discover section below to start diving in and learn more about the wiki."
Morpho Source
"Find, view, and download 3D data representing the world’s natural history, cultural heritage, and scientific collections. Data are contributed by museums, researchers, and scholars to share findings, increase impact, and improve access to material critical for scientific discovery and the advancement of human knowledge."
My Fridge Food
Provides recipes based off ingredients that you have available. Recipes are submitted by users.
noclip
A gallery of video game levels that lets you explore them with a free moving camera.
Online Guitar Tuner
"Hello! You have found the fastest and right way to tune your guitar ??. The tuning will be done using the free online guitar tuner, working through a microphone on your device. This tuner is suitable for acoustic and for electric guitar."
Online Tone Generator
"Simply enter your desired frequency and press play. You will hear a pure tone sine wave sampled at a rate of 44.1kHz. The tone will continue until the stop button is pushed... The tone generator can play four different waveforms: Sine, Square, Sawtooth and Triangle."
Online Tone Generator
"What can I use this tone generator for? Tuning instruments, science experiments (what’s the resonant frequency of this wineglass?), testing audio equipment (how low does my subwoofer go?), testing your hearing (what’s the highest frequency you can hear? are there frequencies you can hear in only one ear?)."
Open Source Innovations
"The mission of Open-Source Innovations is to promote, share ideas, methods, and prototypes for Do-it-Ourselves/DIY adapted mobility devices. There’s a heavy focus in the DME industry on primarily expensive/medical/utilitarian/low performance based mobility solutions . We propose to enable fun and exciting recreational activities through promoting inexpensive performance based adaptive mobility devices."
Peeper Space
"meow, i am peeper the cat, legal name pepper, i am the cat of hackerling"
Pixabay
"Over 5.2 million+ high quality stock images, videos and music shared by our talented community."
Radio Garden
"Radio Garden invites you to explore live radio from around the world. By bringing distant voices close, radio connects people and places. From its very beginning, radio signals have crossed borders. Radio makers and listeners have imagined both connecting with distant cultures, as well as re-connecting with people from ‘home’ from thousands of miles away."
RANDOM.ORG
"RANDOM.ORG offers true random numbers to anyone on the Internet. The randomness comes from atmospheric noise, which for many purposes is better than the pseudo-random number algorithms typically used in computer programs. "
Reference Angle
"I made this tool to practice drawing heads at different angles - inspired by x6ud’s tool for animal references. The photo dataset used is the FFHQ set."
Remove Paywall
"Remove Paywall works by allowing users to search various internet archives. These archived pages do not require a login and prevent users from being tracked."
Reverse Dictionary
"This reverse dictionary allows you to search for words by their definition."
Search My Site
"Search real content by real people from the indieweb / the small web / digital gardens. Sites are ranked higher when they have no ads. Fully open source. Also a search as a service."
sekai best
Database of information for mobile game Project Sekai.
Sekaipedia
"Sekaipedia is a wiki dedicated to Project SEKAI: Colorful Stage! (????????? ???????? feat.????), a Japanese mobile rhythm game for iOS and Android. Our goal is to give players all the information they need to enjoy the game, such as story and mechanic translations, card stats, and more. Story and character content translations are also found here."
Sinonasal Irrigations (A Guide)
"Irrigating (rinsing) the nose and sinuses with salt water (saline) or medicated rinses can be very helpful to lessen or prevent nasal blockage and nasal drainage, decrease inflammation (swelling) and treat infection. There are many different types of irrigation devices, irrigation solutions and techniques."
Sword Site
"I created Sword-Site because there was no genuine resource for students of the sword out there. Sure there are plenty of discussion forums, but getting useful information out of them requires sifting through many, many irrelevant posts, often only to come upon nothing or the tiniest pieces of useful information. On said forums people generally post images of swords but provide no sources, measurements or any other critical data along with it. Furthermore the information is never organized in a useful way. Sword-Site is different. Here you will find volumes of useful data, well organized, and provided in a way that is easy to access. Better yet this site actually cites references; the hallmark of university level research, which separates Sword-Site from the blowhards."
The Deleuze Seminars
"The Deleuze Seminars website is publishing English translations of the seminar lectures given by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) at the University of Paris between 1971 and 1987."
The Museum of RetroTechnology
Images and descriptions of a variety of old technologies.
The New Oil
"How would you like to feel - and more importantly, be - safe online again? Most of us know that we could be doing better when it comes to our online habits: we reuse bad passwords, overshare personal information, and leave ourselves exposed to all kinds of risks all over the internet. But it doesn’t have to be that way and it doesn’t have to be hard, either."
"Welcome to The New Oil. This site is designed to help readers take back control of their data and regain their privacy online. Are you a programmer, sysadmin, networking expert, or hacker? If you answered "no," you’re in the right place! This site is not aimed at tech experts. If you know how to download an app on your phone, how to sign up for an email account, or what a password is, you’ve got the qualifications to tackle the advice and content on this site."
"Whether you’re looking to keep yourself safe from identity theft and common hacks, whether you simply object to mass surveillance, or anything in between, this site will help you learn the basics about protecting your identity, your safety, and your data in a way that’s accessible and achievable. Welcome to privacy made easy."
The Phrontistery
"Welcome to the Phrontistery! Since 1996, I have compiled word lists and language resources to spread the joy of the English language in all its variety through time and space. A phrontistery (from the Greek phrontistes ’thinker’) is meant to be a thinking-place for reflection and intellectual stimulation. I invite you to explore the various site features relating to language and lexicography, find that half-remembered rare or obscure word you’ve been looking for, or to read and explore essays on language, linguistics, and culture. Have a look around, and enjoy!"
The Spriter's Resource
"This website is a part of several websites under the belt of "The VG Resource" - websites that are dedicated to the collection, archival, and appreciation of materials from video games."
"These resources are collected for personal projects and non-commercial work. Many of our users utilize the sprites, models, textures, and sounds found on our sites to make comics or games and more still just browse them to reminisce on games they’ve played."
Theoi
"Welcome to the Theoi Project, a site exploring Greek mythology and the gods in classical literature and art. The aim of the project is to provide a comprehensive, free reference guide to the gods (theoi), spirits (daimones), fabulous creatures (theres) and heroes of ancient Greek mythology and religion."
TinEye Reverse Image Search
"Find where images appear online."
Tip of My Tongue
"Find that word that you’ve been thinking about all day but just can’t seem to remember".
Trigonometry in Nature
"Sinusoidal Waves as Sound".
Vervain Global
"This site features articles about designing and modifying electronics, adaptation of hardware and software, operation of servers and a variety of off-topic subjects that the author wishes to share with the world. If you have a passion for technology and electricity, you’ll no doubt enjoy the articles below. This website is free of advertisements, trackers, cookies and any other privacy invading functions."
VG Bandle
"Our MIDI band will play some Video Game Music for you. But the musicians join in one-by-one. Your goal is to guess both the game that the song is from and the name of the song. You only get 6 guesses, but don’t worry if you don’t know it! Guessing games in the same year/console/series will reveal that information about the game."
VocaDB
"The collaborative database for Vocaloid, UTAU and other singing synthesizers, with artists, discography, PVs and more."
Warfare History Network
"From the armies of ancient Rome and Greece, to the World Wars of the 20th Century and beyond, Warfare History Network’s in-depth articles feature detailed accounts of the battles, the soldiers, the weapons, and much more. In addition, our articles are illustrated with historic photos, paintings, drawings, and maps from museums and historic collections around the world. Our members are a community of serious readers of history that often join in the conversation in our article comments. Join us on a trip to the front lines."
Weapons and Warfare
"WarHistory.org seeks to be a go-to resource for unbiased documentation of all conflicts, providing context from every side, battle archives, conflict zones, weapons used, and key figures and groups involved."
Wikimoon.org
"[An] ongoing project to create a definitive database of information about Sailor Moon."
Wiley Online Library
"Accelerating research discovery to shape a better future... Today’s research, tomorrow’s innovation".
WindowSwap
"Open a window somewhere in the world".
Word Counter
"Apart from counting words and characters, our online editor can help you to improve word choice and writing style, and, optionally, help you to detect grammar mistakes and plagiarism."
Writeups.org
"A collection of profiles for fictional characters from genre media."

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