World Digital Library

WDL
OK, so it’s not exactly the entire world, but it’s a good start. Primary source material from most of the countries that are currently part of UNESCO has been put on the web where anyone can look at it for free. I’ve covered this in detail for a workshop that’ll appear in Computeractive magazine sometime soon. But meantime, you should check it out anyway as some of the content - especially those early maps - is amazing.