I'm trying to preserve the awareness of these sites. Ones of my youth and newer ones which just don't fit the mould of mainstream information. Their obscurity is a quality which makes them easier to be forgotten and lost but they should be preserved.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.totse.com - before the chans, there was this
https://www.wanttoknow.info/ - excellent all-over non mainstream information site, with easy to read summaries and rundowns
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_tema.htm (Spanish 35%, English 65%)
http://www.sacred-texts.com/search.htm - Religious and spirituality text archive.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ - 57,000 Free Ebooks
https://librivox.org/ - Free Public Domain Audiobooks
http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/ - interesting collection of esoteric knowledge and left-field thinking
https://www.mail-archive.com/ - archives of 3659 different mailing lists
http://web.archive.org/web/20180731211759/http://www.suck.com/ - this only went down recently. One of the oldest blog sites that regularly (daily) uploaded new content from all sorts of authors and writers.
http://archive.qzap.org/index.php/Splash/Index - weird zines (queer LGTBQ)
https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/pdfs/ - decent sized catalog of .pdf zines
http://whale.to/b/ - selection of pages containing non-mainstream information on all manner of topics and conspiracies
http://cryptome.org/ - before wikileaks there was this
http://amasci.com/ - Science Hobbyist site from the 90’s
http://unlistedvideos.com/ - search engine to view unlisted Youtube videos
http://l-lists.com/en/lists/r5l5dj.html - list of around 100 video sharing sites like Youtube
http://archive.fo/rUcll - archive of same
http://l-lists.com/en/lists/x6wq0w.html - list of 4 sites to use to search Youtube with
http://l-lists.com/en/ - collaborative list making website. Excellent resource and also handy to make your own public lists to save or share. The lists of lists is so much fun to browse through to find these forgotten nuggets of online info
http://www.statisticalconsultants.co.nz/links.html - Links to free statistical software, statistics websites journals etc.
http://l-lists.com/en/lists/qukoen.html - list of 300 search engines