Here are links to website hosting and creation resources(clip art, gifs, backgrounds, fonts), free software, ide's, browsers, anti-virus, and other useful stuff

• NEOCITIES - Free web hosting with no ads. Build your own website with HTML/CSS/JS


• Animate It (now on Web Archive)
• Gifs.net
• fg-a.com
• Netanimations
• Animationlibrary
• Picgifs
• Animatedgif
• Animatedimages
• Animated-Gifs.org
• Gifs Paradise
• Magic Lantern Graphics
• GifGifs
• Cacciopoli - Animated gifs
• Heathers Animations
• GifandGif
• ozark gifs
• Nancy's Place
• Bonnibel's Graphic Collection
• Index of Chuck Poynter's gifs
• Cameron's World
• Animated-Gifs
• Amazing Animations
• Horse GIFs
• Textfiles.com - a million construction gifs
• Glitter Graphics
• Wilsoninfo clipart and animated gifs
• Yoursmiles - smileys, glitter graphics, icons...
• GigaGlitters - glitter text
• Gifcities
• jansgraphics
• animatieplaatjes - animated gifs
• Bars, Lines, and Dividers Gif Images
• The Graphics Fairy
• Curlie - links to gif's, clip art, graphics, etc
• Clipart Library
• HiClipart
• Free PNG Image
• PNG Img
• pngfind
• kindpng
• pingwing
• pikpng
• ClipArtPNG
• cleanpng
• clipartmax
• Webweaver's Free Clipart
• FreePNGClipart
• Alba Creative
• The Shooting Stars Collection - Gundam Wing Image Archive
• Moon's Hub of Pages
• CatStuff Graphics - cat graphics
• Victoria's blinkies and animated gifs collection
• dmoz gifs and graphics
• Mazeguy Smileys
• The Spriters Resource
• GIFMaker.me - Make your own animated GIFs
• GIFMaker.org - Make your own animated GIFs
• EZGif - Make your own animated GIFs
• Favicon and App Icon Generator
• Icon Archives
• RealWorld Graphics - icons, cursors, paint libraries and editors
• Totally Free Cursors
• cursors-4u
• snazzyspace Tumblr mouse sparkle trails
• Da Button Factory - 88x31 Button Maker
• Dynamic Drive Online Button Maker
• Bannerfans - online button and banner maker
• Create your own South Park character
• TheFreeSite
• RV's free Javascript/DHTML effects
• Angel's Realm - Blinkies collections
• Free Blinkies Arena - Myspace Blinkies
• Princess Cher's Blinkies
• Val's Blinkie Collection
• Blinkies
• fallenanjel7's blinkies
• ekate23's blinkies
• Glitter Graphics (Blinkies section)
• I Love Binkies
• Jan's Graphics - Blinkies section
• Tumblr Blinkies
• MusesRealm (blinkies page)
• Amethyst and Tori's LOTR Blinkie Collection
• Webcreations with Jumpy (blinkies pages)
• GifCities (blinkie search)
• GUIdebook - GUI icons and graphics
• A. N. Lucas' 88x31 button collection
• Buttonwall 88x31 button collection
• The 88x31 GIF Collection
• The 88x31 Button Gallery


• Cosgan's Smilies
• Emojipedia
• Smilies and Emoticons
• List of ASCII emoticons
• Alt Codes (also some unicode for card suites, chess pieces, etc)
• Unicode characters
• UTF-8 Miscellaneous Symbols


• Dafont
• 1001 Free Fonts
• The Font Factory
• Fontstock
• Acid Fonts
• Urbanfonts
• Fontspace
• Fonts2U
• Spoogy's Eternal Nirvana of Fonts
• Atari Classic TTF - MAC/Atari Fusion
• Andrew Sun Font Converter


• Free Music Archive
• Incompetech free music
• Open Music Archive
• Freesound
• SoundBible
• WavSource
• Midi-Files-For-Free
• TheFreeSite - free wav files
• PatMW's Midi Collection
• Soundboard - sound files from movies, tv, music, and elsewhere
• BigSoundBank
• WAV sound files directory
• Midiworld
• PartnersInRhyme - free music and sound effects
• download-midi.com
• BitMidi
• Classical Guitar Midi
• Classical Piano Midi Page
• COOL MIDI
• The World of Free MIDI Files Amsterdam
• BFXR - Make sound effects for your game
• MIDIjs - play midi files in your browser
• VST 4 Free - free musical instruments/sound effects plugins


• CGtextures
• Mayang textures
• Texture Archive
• Imageafter


• Apache Open Office
• GIMP - Free image editor similar to Photoshop
• Inkscape - Free vector art drawing tool
• Krita - free and open source painting program
• Scribus - Open source desktop publishing
• Codeblocks - A great IDE for C/C++(and other) programming
• Notepadd++ - Lightweight text editor for HTML/CSS/Javascript


• Mozilla FIREFOX Browser
• searX search engine
• StartPage Search Engine
• TOR Browser
• I2P - The Invisible Internet Project
• Freenet - a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant communication and publishing
• Tutanota - secure email based in Germany
• ProtonMail - secure email based in Switzerland
• Disroot - Private Encrypted Email Service
• That One Privacy Site - detailed VPN and Email comparisons


• Free Software Foundation - resources
• Freeware-Guide.com (archived)
• FreewareFiles.com
• OnlyFreewares.com
• Sourceforge - Free open source software
• Softonic - Free Apps, Programs, and Tools Download
• Oldversion.com - old software, browsers, etc for download
• WinWorldPC MS abandonware
• WinWorldPC MS abandonware
• AllBootDisks - old versions of Windows
• Macintosh Repository
• Vetusware - "the biggest free abandonware downloads collection in the universe"
• AlternativeTo - crowdsourced software recommendations
• ComputerHope - Free computer help since 1998
• The Javascript Source
• Amigan Software Links Page


• Free Online Soundfile Conversion Tool
• Zamzar - Free Online Soundfile Conversion
• 7 ZIP - opens many types of file formats
• VLC Player - free and open source cross-platform multimedia player
• Keepvid - Youtube video downloader


• HTML5 media and data URIs(about)
• Base64 file encoder/decoder
• browserling - Convert Files to Base64
• GiftOfSpeed Base64 Encoder


• Adblock Plus - Gets rid of pesky ads and popups. I wouldn't surf without it.
• Comodo - Free firewall/antivirus software
• Malwarebytes Anti-malware protection
• Gizmo's Freeware (This link is to their rootkit removal software page)
• SuperAntiSpyware - Spyware remover


• Thunderstone's Website Catalog
• wiby - the search engine for classic websites
• Indieseek.xyz Indieweb Directory
• Qwant - "The search engine that respects your privacy"
• entireweb - search engine with a good/unique aggregate of results
• All The Internet - search engine with a good/unique aggregate of results


• Escargot - a replacement for MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger.
• How To Escargot - how to get started with Escargot
• Jabber.org is the original IM service based on XMPP
• pidgin IM - IM all your friends in one place