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There are dozens if not hundreds of links to independent 3rd party sites listed on this page; the content of which may go down or change at any time. Please note that I do not own and am not responsible for any of those sites or their contents. Nor do I necessarily agree or disagree with any or all of their contents.
I recommend the Pale Moon prior to 29.1.1 or Mypal , SeaMonkey , Ungoogled Chromium and/or older versions of web browsers for web browsing with the NoScript and uBlock Origin addons - NoScript Official Site - uBlock Official Site
reject visiting bloated and script laden sites. There is no reason for a website with little to no content to waste over 1gb of memory and take 1gb of bandwidth and 300watts of cpu and gpu power for over a minute just to load very little actual content. The same people that push the "climate change" nonsense have no problem with this wasteful practice and actively partake in and spread the problem of bad coding, bad websites and bad bloat. Any good website will be able to load on a 66mhz 486DX with 16mb of ram or a Nintendo WII with no problem while still having any content including multimedia content needed.
It is my opinion that we need to go back to the "old school" way the internet was between the early 1990's to early 2000's when there was millions of independent websites, search engines, top sites lists and everyone sharing links on their own websites and by word of mouth. Please feel free to visit and share the links here or any other information you like.
Reading, preserving, copying, printing and spreading real physical books, documents and information needs to make a comeback and stay a thing. Anything that is stored on another person's 3rd party server/service/cloud or whatever else they call it cannot be trusted as it can be either entirely deleted or subtly edited at any time. "Books: remember those things? Text printed in ink on physical paper! They are probably all banned by the time you read this and you are risking being put in a prison death camp or disappeared for even mentioning such silly things"
If we allow the unelected technocrats and kleptocrats such as the scum at google, facebook, microsoft, apple or any big tech name, government, "fact checker" or "authority" censor and/or control our information then we all have no future and no freedom. (In the years since I originally wrote this in 2014 this has become painfully obvious, true and total undeniable reality.) You all now have no freedom, no privacy are openly told by the World Economic Forum, United States and European Union and world governments that "you will own nothing, eat bugs, live in a prison camp and be happy." Real world examples of prison death camps now exist in Australia, New Zealand, Italy and soon everywhere else in the world as of 2022) Good luck finding anything meaningful or relevant on Google or anywhere else, they are nothing more than spam, lies, hatred and defamation factories filled with irrelevant trash. The closest chance you have to real information is Russian search engine Yandex or an instance of Searx.
Search Engines
During the mid 1990's to early 2000's there were dozens of independent search engines all of which were uncensored/unedited and had their own crawlers and SERPs.
Unfortunately since about 2012 there are now very few uncensored, unedited or free choices left because of big anti trust monopolies such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and others. and since 2020 basically one or two if not none. - As Google becomes more and more blatant and egregious with it's bias, manipulation of it's SERP and outright removal/censorship of results/links alternatives have become increasingly sought after and used. "I now mainly use Yandex, Searx and a combination of other sources and refuse to trust Google as Google's results are obviously bias, defamation, spam and hate factories, censor non hateful and non profit content and can no longer be trusted."
Yandex The biggest plus of this search engine is that it's not Google. - Yandex is a Russian based search engine that uses a different SERP and algorithm than Google. Isn't it funny how a Russian company does so much less censorship and manipulation than Google or other U.S. based tech companies. While this search engine is not perfect "no one search engine is perfect" it is pretty good and getting better and is much better than Google or Bing. See also yandex.ru
Searx Privacy-respecting metasearch engine - You can host this search engine yourself or use a publicly hosted instance some of which are listed at https://searx.space/ I see real potential and a future for this and others like it.
Wiby Wiby is a search engine for the classic web that primarily lists clean simple old fashioned html websites that contain actual useful and interesting information. It is a smaller more localized site and does not crawl the entire web but it is a fun and useful site that is better than most things left on the internet.
DuckDuckGo It was halfway decent for a brief period "2016 to 2019" but something went wrong with it. It rarely produces relevant results and just mirrors other search engines. It is a choice that exists but I'm not exactly as thrilled with it anymore.
StartPage If you want the censored, biased, and propaganda results that Google offers but do not want Google to directly track your searches then StartPage is an option.
IxQuick Used to be separate to StartPage but now redirects to the StartPage site but seems to still be accessible via https://www.ixquick.eu If IxQuick is still different/serpate than StartPage then the difference is it queries several different SERPs to generate results rather than just that of Google's
(A lot has changed since I first wrote this in 2014 ixquick and several others pretty much does not exist anymore it is just startpage/google now.) If you thought the 2010's were bad, just try existing in the 2020's and beyond, even the advertised historical images of hitler, stalin, mao and pol pot combined had nothing on the horrible evil tyranny and fascism actually actively being committed by the 21st century global dictators. but don't worry as the Nazi heir who runs the WEF Klaus Schwab says (you will own NOTHING and be happy or else) So it's no problem.
Good real people, unique tech info and miscellaneous sites
These are real people that work in computers and technology and have interesting websites and things. Support independent techs and small businesses while providing yourself with knowledge and resources and overall making everything better.
Nathan Toasty's Technology Page A good guy who has made a site with good and informative content about operating systems and software with a classical style and a perspective of freedom.
Camera Tim's Website Tim Seifert "Camera Tim" is a professional photographer. His website is nicely designed with no bloat, lots of good content, information, thoughts and opinions.
Geordy Rostad's Blog notANON The Tech Blog of Geordy Rostad This site has lots of fun information and projects related to electronics and computers.
88Watts David's Consulting Services A helpful and informative site mainly about OS/2, Unix and other unique systems. Worth checking out especially if you are into OS/2 stuff.
SillyDog701 Home of the Netscape Browser archive. SillyDog701's site also has lots of interesting and useful information and articles.
Stephen Fox's Technology Self-Help Support Page includes links to files and references related to Windows 3.x , 9.x NT and other stuff. A pretty good site with some good stuff.
Operator Headgap's Mac Resale Store is the place for Custom & Refurbished Mac systems, equipment parts, software and accessories. Especially PowerMac G4 and G5 stuff; see also his site at http://powermac-g5.com/bobsg5tips.html which has a working Flash player solution for PowerPC Macs.
EveryMac.com provides comprehensive Mac specs, in-depth answers to hundreds of Mac questions, detailed Mac identification info, and popular dates in Mac history. It also has tools to compare Macs side-by-side, lookup Macs by serial number and other identifiers
ibiblio The Public's Library and Digital Archive. Lots of files, information, archives and interesting things about the early web, technology and other fun stuff.
Games & Software
These are links to real games that have quality, depth and content while being free or cheap, DRM free and respect your freedoms and privacy and don't infest your computer with garbage.
Good Old Games Good Old Games or GOG delivers "classic" video games through its DRM-free digital platform for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
The Humble Bundle The Humble Bundles are a series of collections of digital creations that are sold and distributed online at a price determined by the purchaser. Pay what you want, DRM Free, cross-platform, Helps charity.
The Macintosh Garden Free Abandonware, freeware and shareware games and software for classic Macintosh systems mainly from the 1990's.
Freedom and Privacy
Your freedom matters, your privacy matters, The Bill of Rights and Constitution matters. Those principles matter more than ever in the 21st century and beyond just as much and even more so than they did in the 18th Century. Technology increases the need, importance and relevance for these things not decreases. Rights and Freedoms matter.
Listed below are sites and organizations that support freedom and privacy.
The Free Software Foundation The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all free software users.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center EPIC is an independent non-profit research center in Washington, DC. EPIC works to protect privacy, freedom of expression, democratic values, and to promote the Public Voice in decisions concerning the future of the Internet.
The Rutherford Institute The Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit civil liberties organization based in Charlottesville, Va., is deeply committed to protecting the constitutional freedoms of every American and the integral human rights of all people through its extensive legal and educational programs.
American Center for Law and Justice The ACLJ and its worldwide affiliates engage in litigation, provide legal services, render advice to individuals and governmental agencies, as well as counsel clients on global freedom and liberty issues. They also support training law students from around the world in order to protect religious liberty and safeguard human rights and dignity.
Constitution Society The Constitution Society is a private non-profit organization founded in 1994 and dedicated to research and public education on the principles of constitutional republican government. It publishes documentation, engages in litigation, and organizes local citizens groups to work for reform.