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https://www.gutenberg.org/
It's been around for half a century and nobody knows about it. It's like a world wonder, a modern Library of Alexandria.
Amd you can download them all as a ZIM
Project Gutenberg predates the internet. I still remember how their goal was to give away one trillion ebooks.
Project Gutenberg is still around, so I won't say this is an example of the internet getting worse. But I loathe how it's come to focus on damnable social media like there's nothing else of worth out there. Social media, among other things, filled the air with noise that starved many worthwhile projects of attention.
Not sure how known these are, but it's similar.
https://librivox.org/ public domain audio books
https://freemusicarchive.org/ free access to open licensed music
Librevox! My love!
IIRC, they'll add new books every year, as older books slowly become Public Domain, so classics like a bunch of Tarzan books (though not all of them, yet) have become available.
Also, for those that don't get the name: Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press that was much better than existing presses (and pretty new to Europe).
There is a modern Library of Alexandria, just fyi, it's pretty fucking dope.