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Access the Web

12ft Ladder: Bypass any paywall.
Bionic Reading: Bionic Reading® revises texts so that the most concise parts of words are highlighted.
Not Bionic Reading: An open source project that revises texts so that the most consise parts of the words are highlighted.
Cyberspace: Links about the internet from sadgrl.online.
Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone.
OpenDyslexic: A typeface designed against some common symptoms of dyslexia.
Open Library: Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published.
uBlock Origin: Free, open-source ad content blocker.
Unpaywall: An open database of 47,841,931 free scholarly articles.

Privacy

Cloudflare: 1.1.1.1 with WARP prevents anyone from snooping on you by encrypting more of the traffic leaving your device.
Crash Override: Crash Override is a crisis helpline, advocacy group and resource center for people who are experiencing online abuse.
Extreme Privacy: What It Takes to Disappear, 4th Ed.: Workbook from Michael Bazzell.
Have I Been Pwned: Check if your email or phone is in a data breach.
How Secure is Your Password?: Password strength tool from security.org
JustDeleteMe: A directory of direct links to delete your account from web services.
Mozilla Products: A family of products designed to keep you safer and smarter online.
Online Harrassment Field Manual: This Field Manual from Pen America offers concrete strategies for how to defend yourself and others.
Online Spyware Watchdog: The goal of this website is to classify spyware programs, so that users can be more aware that they are installing spyware.
Privacy Guides: Privacy Guides is a central privacy and security resource to protect yourself online.
Privacy Tools Privacy tools guide for encrypted software and apps.
Surveillance Self-Defense: Tips, tools and how-tos for safer online communications from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Tactical Technology Collective: Tactical Tech is a non-profit working to advance the use of technologies by advocates and activists worldwide.
Tools from EFF's Tech Team: Where users face threats to their privacy and security online, EFF’s technology tools are there to defend them.
ToS;DR: Terms of Service; Didn't Read is a project started in June 2012 to help fix the “biggest lie on the web”: almost no one really reads the terms of service we agree to all the time.

Scholarly Resources

Directory of Open Access Books: DOAB is a discovery service for peer reviewed open access books and book publishers that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed books.
Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone.
EBSCO Open Dissertations: OpenDissertations.org is a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs that brings an innovative approach to increasing traffic and discoverability of ETD research.
ERIC: Online digital library that provides free, public access to education research and information.
GreenFILE: GreenFILE is a free research database covering all aspects of human impact to the environment.
OAPEN: OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books by providing open infrastructure services to stakeholders in scholarly communication.
Open Access Directory: A compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship.
Open DOAR: OpenDOAR is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories.
Open Library: Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published.
Open Theses & Dissertations: Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) is an index of over 1.6 million electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) from around the world.
Public Library of Science (PLoS): PLoS publishes a suite of influential Open Access journals across all areas of science and medicine.
ROAD: Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources

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Personal Web

Build your website.

32-Bit Cafe: A community website hobbyists and professionals helping rebuild the personal web.
Accessibility — Make the web usable by everyone: Overview and basics of web accessibility from Mozilla.
Chattable: Chattable is a fully custom live chat tool for your Neocities website.
Deploy to Neocities: Guide for deploying from GitHub to Neocities.
Free Website Hit Counter
GitHub Pages: Hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live.
Glitch.com: Build fast, full-stack web apps in your browser for free.
GoatCounter: Easy web analytics with no collection of personal data.
Ground Floor: Basic HTML and CSS styling especially for Neocities.
HTML for the People
Introduction to Web Accessibility: Fundamentals of web accessibility from W3C.
NearlyFreeSpeech.net: Low-cost, pay for what you use web hosting since 2002.
Native Neocities Hit-Counter (and Last Updated): Code for adding hit-counter and last update to Neocities sites.
Smart Guestbook: Get a guestbook for your website.
W3Schools: Wealth of tutorials and reference guides for HTML, CSS, Javascript, and much more.
Want to make a website?

Decorate your website.

88x31 Button Maker
88x31 Button Viewer: Searchable database of new and old 88x31 web buttons.
88x31 GIF Collection
The Largest 88x31 Collection on the Internet
blinkies.cafe: Create and share 150x20-pixel blinkies.
Dither Me This: Very cool web tool to reduce the file size of an image… but in a stylish old-school way.
Flaming Text: Custom 3D text.
Geoblinkies: Searchable database of blinkies.
GifCities: Animated GIF search engine from the Internet Archive.
Glitter Text Online: Generate animated "glitter" text.
Make WordArt: Make old school WordArt.
MS Clipart Search: Collection of old school MS clipart in SVG format.
Neonauticon: Great resources including 88x31 button collection, image compression, and web directory.
Oldschool PC Font Resource
Pixel Safari: Beautiful Neocities site with dividers, favicons, buttons, blinkies, and more.
Repeater: Create repeating tiles from pattern images.
Texture Town: Huge collection of background textures, mostly tiled.
Tinkerbell Mouse Effect: Add glitter effect to your cursor (or bubbles, hearts, explosions).
Totally Free Cursors: A collection of static and animated cursors.
Windows 98 Icon Viewer

Fun Stuff

More fun stuff from around the web.

The 90s Button
birdie: Guess the North American bird.
MS DOS Games: Over 1,800 free DOS games.
earth.fm: Listen to nature sounds from all over the Earth.
KidPix: KidPix for the web.
Metazooa: Figure out the day's mystery animal in as few guesses as possible.
MS DOS Games: Classic MS DOS games from the Internet Archive's Software Library.
myNoise.net: Choose from noise generators, nature sounds and ambient music to create your perfect audio environment.
MyRetroTVs: Channel surf TV of the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s.
ooh!directory: A collection of 1,981 blogs about every topic.
Radio Garden: Tune into thousands of live radio stations across the globe.
Radiooooo: Musical time machine.
Windowswap: Watch windows around the world

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