Free Internet Resources

This information was originally posted by "BigDoggie" on "the Sub."

Compilation of Links to FREE web-based services revised 7/2000

BigDoggie writes: "This is a compilation of other link lists I have created and posted for all."

Thanks to the folks who maintain these various lists, and to the kind soul who, in most cases, posted a link to the site somewhere which I later stumbled across.

List of FREE ISP's - NetZero, move over! There are dozens of 'em, free or nearly free, regional or national. As you might expect, someone has cared enough about this issue to compile information on the various players and post the compilation on a web page:

http://nzlist.org/user/freeisp/index.htm
http://freeisps.solobox.com/

This site shows how to hide the banner ads from some of these free ISP's:

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Zone/6747/Download/freebanners.htm

Over 1,000 companies provide free Internet e-mail. The combinations are almost limitless... webmail access, POP3 access, mail collection from multiple accounts, email forwarding, even free Internet e-mail that doesn't even require you to have an ISP? The list goes on and on... see it here:

http://www.emailaddresses.com/

Get lots of e-mail addresses, cheap (free) and easy:

Sign up a for a free domain at

FreeServers ( http://www.freeservers.com)

You get ONE free web-based e-mail box with this domain. But, here's the good part: they sweep ANY and ALL e-mail addressed to ANYBODY at your domain into that e-mail box! You can have HUNDREDS of valid e-mail addresses without having to do anything to create them!

Need a few more e-mail addresses? Get a free e-mail account with up to twenty aliases with minimal hassle. Literally THOUSANDS of domains to choose from.

www.another.com

Free ENCRYPTED web-based Internet e-mail... provided that both parties to the message use Hushmail. Normal, unencrypted e-mail to anybody on the web.

http://www.hushmail.com/

Get FREE e-mail Autoresponders

• Go to http://webmail.netscape.com
• Sign up for a mail account.
• Accept webmail term of use agreement.
• Fill out the form.
• Upon completing the registration, log in to your account.
• On the left, you will see sets of folders with subfolders.
• Click on the + sign next to Free services.
• You will see a folder named "autoresponders"… click on it.
• new page will open in the right frame, click on NEW button.
• Another window will open, fill it out accordingly.

Lists of and info on providers of FREE Internet Home Pages

http://www.freecenter.com/homepages.html
http://www.free-web-site-hosting.com/
http://www.freestuff.nu/webmaster/hosting.htm
http://www.freecenter.com/homepages.html
http://www.free-web-site-hosting.com/
http://www.cservices.com/free.html
http://www.howtoweb.com/corner/freepage.htm

Want free web-page hosting WITHOUT the popups and banners and etc.? This site has instructions for killing the pop-ups and etc for many of the free hosting services. As an extra service, they have demo sites on the major free servers, so you can actually look at the HTML code yourself.

http://bannerkillers.cjb.net/

There are a dozen or so sites that offer free hosting with NO ads or popups to start with. To find them, go to this page and then use the search engine:

http://www.freewebspace.net

Once you get that free home-page, you'll want to know how many people have been there. These sites list providers of FREE hit-counters for your site. I have tried to give links direct to the hit-counter page. If the link fails, go back to that home URL and navigate your way to the COUNTERS page.

http://www.reallybig.com/category.php3?catid=24
http://www.counterguide.com/hosted.html
http://www.4free.net/freecounters.shtml  (lots of other free stuff here, too)

List of free URL redirectors

http://www.free-web-site-hosting.com/  look for the link

A decent resource for locating web-hosting services of all sorts, including for-fee (as opposed to for-free) hosting services. About 3,000 hosting services are listed, divided into many searchable categories!

http://www.findahost.com

Lists of verified proxies (some are also free news-servers)

http://tools.rosinstrument.com/proxy/
Look especially for this link: "LAST 200 recently checked hosts sorted by speed"

http://www.lightspeed.de/irc4all/eindex.htm

http://www.novelsoft.com/dark/proxy/

Info on FREE Internet news-servers

You will find an excellent search engine that will tell you which open news servers has the newsgroup you are looking for:

http://freenews.maxbaud.net/

For lists of free servers (news and mail) see any of these sites:

http://home1.gte.net/docthomp/servers.htm
http://home1.gte.net/docthomp/newstuff.htm
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/1248/nntpeng.html
http://www.jammed.com/~newzbot/
http://www.newsservers.net/new_servers.htm
http://nlist.cjb.net/
http://www.slip.net/~rain/nh/

Privacy and security:

Here's a list of quite a few Type-1 (Cyberpunk) Anon remailers:

http://anon.efga.org/Remailers/TypeIList/

And the same people, Electronic Frontiers Georgia, also host a list of a few free Anonymizing Web Proxies, at:

http://anon.efga.org/WebProxies

and a links page to privacy tools and etc at:

http://anon.efga.org/

List of FREE web-based file storage sites - Over 50 competing free services that offer web-based file storage:

http://www.webwizards.net/useful/wbfs.htm

List of FREE web-based bookmark storage and maintenance sites:

http://www.webwizards.net/useful/wbbm.htm

Free Internet application source code site... C/C++, Java, Perl, and Visual Basic. Worth a visit if you are into this kind of stuff.

http://www.freecode.com/

Free self-paced web-based HTML "Microsoft Official Curriculum" Courses helps users prepare for Windows 2000.

Course 1555: Getting Ready for Microsoft Windows 2000
Course 2000: Microsoft Windows 2000: First Look

http://www.microsoft.com/train_cert/winmoc/

Free info on website promotion. Very specific information on improving search engine placement in all of the major search engines, use of meta-tags, etc.

http://www.Promotion101.com

FREE "price comparison" sites:

www.pricewatch.com was the first one that I knew about. Now, the field of on-line lowest-price shopping engines continues to expand. Here are the major ones to look at:

AltaVista's Shopping.com: http://www.shopping.com/
CNET Shopper.com: http://www.shopper.com/
WebMarket: http://www.webmarket.com/
MySimon: http://www.mysimon.com/
Price Watch: http://www.pricewatch.com/
Bottomdollar: http://www.bottomdollar.com/

Huge list of hundreds of SERVERS of all sorts. I haven't spent enough time with this to know if it is of value... if you are interested in this sort of thing, knock yourself out! Mail servers, FTP servers, mail-to-news posting gateways, etc etc.

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1236/servers.html

List of many current elite FTP sites and summary of contents. Seems to be pretty well maintained. Worth a look. Some content in Russian, most in English.

http://crx.newmail.ru/

SpititMaster has an EZBoard forum with HUGE, well-maintained lists of links to all sorts of sites in this genre. Worth a look. Note: since this is an EZ Board, it is subject to relocation on short notice.

http://pub18.ezboard.com/bspiritlinkz

Another huge list of FREE Internet stuff, based by '1/2 cut' of S.O.S.

http://www.halfcut.f2s.com/url.htm

Microsoft updates direct download site

If you have multiple computers to support, you may be interested in this little-publicized site. This page contains critical updates and other beneficial binaries for Windows 98. However, unlike the regular windowsupdate.microsoft.com site where each computer must download and install its own copy or each update, at this site you can make a direct download of each of the critical updates. Download each update ONCE, save the updates to server or CDROM, and then install on every computer you have.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/downloads/corporate.asp

And this is the same thing, except for Windows 2000:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads

This is a similar site with direct downloads of the updates for Internet Explorer:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/security/default.asp

BTW... when you have finished your manual updates, it is a good idea to visit the windowsupdate site and let the on-line process run, just to make sure you have applied all of the necessary updates.

What is a .RQG file? There are, literally, hundreds of valid file extensions, and sure enough, someone (actually, a couple of someones) has complied a list of “Every File Format In the World”:

http://kresch.com/exts/ext.htm
http://www.whatis.com/ff.htm

Computer User's High Tech Dictionary
http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dictionary/index.html

Network Tools
http://www.all-nettools.com/tools1.htm

MISCELLANEOUS CRAP

FREE Acronym Finder - searches 70,000 known acronyms:
http://www.mtnds.com/af/

FREE info: Beat A Speeding Ticket
http://www.speedingticket.net

FREE File and e-mail encryption software: PGP Freeware
http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html