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Free Internet TV, a 2008 link directory that outlived its era

Another one from the archive. Free Internet TV is a directory of live TV channels streaming for free on the web, sorted by language and region — Arabic, Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak.

It was built when watching television in a browser still meant installing RealPlayer and hoping your ADSL line held up. Plenty of the links have rotted since, but the surprise is how many still resolve, and how useful the list remains if you want news in a language you are learning rather than the algorithm's idea of what you should watch.

Like the Gmail Backup site, it now runs as a static mirror on S3 behind HTTPS. Old sites do not have to die; they just have to stop needing a database.

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