Links
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.
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.
- 123Guestbook: Free customizable guestbook.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ground Floor: Basic HTML and CSS styling especially for Neocities.
- Introduction to Web Accessibility: Fundamentals of web accessibility from W3C.
- 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 GIF Collection
- The Largest 88x31 Collection on the Internet
- blinkies.cafe: Create and share 150x20-pixel blinkies.
- Flaming Text: Custom 3D text.
- GifCities: Animated GIF search engine from the Internet Archive.
- Glitter Text Online: Generate animated "glitter" text.
- Make WordArt: Make old school WordArt.
- 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