GetOnline

updated 2005-06-13.

GetOnline: A list of references to help you get online.

Contents: [FIXME:]

• Get Online
• web space
• email boxes
• email forwarding
• mailing list services
• Mailing List Considerations
• online file storage
• domain name services
• Usenet News
• unsorted

related pages:

• "whois" search search_tools.html#whois

news

• "Best Web Authoring Application?" ... "Any recommendations for a hosting service?" http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/17/1750212&tid=185&tid=95&tid=4

  If you are a Christian, you might consider reading

  • "Christian Living on the Internet" by gerv 2000 http://www.gerv.net/writings/christian/living.html has some tips for Christians going online.

  before using the following tools.

  GetOnline

  A list of references to help you get online. (in no particular order).

  Internet access providers

  • http://www.gospelcom.net/ifc/hookup.html#freenet points to
    • a list of Internet access providers (ISPs) organized by area code. http://thelist.internet.com/ was: http://thelist.com
  • filtered internet service http://www.rated-g.com/
  • GeoTech voice: 918.270.INET Tulsa data line 1: 918.270.4744 geotec.net
  • Vigoris http://www.vigoris.net/ $10/month
  • Tulsa Connect http://www.tulsaconnect.net/ -- recc. Michael Keller (sp ?)
  • $17/month AT&T WorldNet http://www.download.att.net/discover11 dial-up access
  • $10/month Netscape http://www.GETnetscape.com/ dial-up access
  • Looking for a ISP ? check out Oklahoma Internet Service Providers http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/U_S__States/Oklahoma/Business_and_Economy/Business_to_Business/Communications_and_Networking/
  • Internet Providers in Southwest Oklahoma http://www.4oklinks.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/Internet_Providers/

  web_space

  free web server space (but you have to display their advertising) (in no particular order) [FIXME: move to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_hosting ... or http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Hosting/Free/ ]

  • http://www.snetweb.com/school/index.shtml | http://hosting.snet.net/school/ ``every non-profit public, state approved private and parochial K-12 school and public library in the state of Connecticut may host one free Web site on SNET's servers.''
  • http://50megs.com/ Free site "has Banners/pop/ups"
  • free website ... ad supported http://www.tripod.lycos.com/ /* was http://www.Tripod.com/ */ 20 MB of free web space; "JavaScript & CGI Library" http://www.tripod.lycos.com/campaigns/landing/free/ Easy to remember site name (yourname.tripod.com)
  • Netscape offers free web site and email; http://home.netscape.com/netcenter/smallbusiness/onlineessentials/start.html and http://webmail.netscape.com/tpl/Door/Login? | http://webmail.netscape.com/ [offline ?]
  • $0 /month (No Setup Fee) no banners or pop-up ads http://www.doteasy.com/index.cfm?A=freehosts It seems you must already have your own domain name (?) or buy a domain name through doteasy (typically $25/year)
  • http://www.newbiesite.com/index2.asp?Affid=14 "free web hosting, no banners" but you must buy the domain name from them ? $25/year
  • http://referral.ms11.net/?referral=free-webhosts "no banner ads or pop-ups on your pages. MS11.net will never bill you or shut down your site. All you pay is an $11 activation fee"
  • "Don't mind ads on your site? Then you can get started with a free GeoCities home page." http://geocities.yahoo.com/ ... 20 MB free web space /* was http://www.GeoCities.com/ */
  • Free Accounts ... ad-supported http://signup.uwebtrace.com/cgi-bin/show_me?page=hosting_compare&noexit=1
  • http://www.RedRival.com/ Free Accounts ... http://home.redrival.com/index.php?join support forums 20 MB of web space Free SSI/XSSI Scripting ... ad-supported
  • No-Cost Hosting Service... Banners at the bottom of page only. http://www.freehomepages.com/ 50 MB web space, free guestbook. Free Chat Board.
  • http://free.hostdepartment.com/ free, no pop-up ads includes web hosting statistics "http://free.hostdepartment.com/you" "Free Guest Book, WWW Board/Forum, Forms"
  • free, no pop-up ads http://members.freewebs.com/ "we support server-side includes (SSI) free of charge." "Your site's address will be: http://www.FreeWebs.com/yourusername " 40MB of space ... seems to allow Perl scripts ... "Accounts with no logins and no hits for 60 days will be removed." "With WebsChat! you can add chat rooms to your site in a flash!" (But how much does that cost ?) All non-premium users are required to have the FreeWebs FreeBar Code on their website. This adds a very small strip at the bottom of the website saying, "This website is being hosted for Free by FreeWebs.com." Live WebStats are only available to Premium users. Sign up for ANY premium service and receive LIVE Web Statistics for all your pages FREE of charge! (note: non-premium users can still get page statistics by inserting a counter onto your pages through the Addons section).
  • http://www.ProHosting.com/ might be the same as http://free.prohosting.com/ which claims "NO Banner Advertisements!" (and see http://www.searchlores.org/phostban.htm )
  • (20 MB free web space, + free email) http://www2.fortunecity.com/cgi-bin/homepage/estate.pl?referer=E-eye1-448-9 FortuneCity's ad-supported free web hosting http://www.fortunecity.com/join/join.shtml ... http://www2.fortunecity.com/
  • 2005-06-13: Alas, Angel Towns no longer has free web site hosting.

    Angel Towns http://www.angeltowns.com/ "Our goal is to provide free, quality, web site hosting for everyone that is interested in making a child safe web site." claims "free ... 50 megabytes of space with no ads." "All of our free sites come with free web boards." To get server-site includes, must pay for a registered account -- "A registered account is only a one time fee of $10." The biggest drawback seems to be: Pages are subject to removal, if there is no member activity (account logins) in the member account for 30 days. "Sorry, but we only accept free account sign ups during the first five days of each month." The catch: They make money buy selling advertising space. The webmasters who update their web pages see this advertising, not the casual reader who reads those web pages.

    Angel Towns also has a $9.95/year plan that sounds like a pretty good deal. See http://www.angeltowns.com/comp.html for a comparison of the free plan and the $9.95/year plan.

  • http://www.webjump.com/ 25 MB of web space [offline ?]
  • CGIRealm.comhttp://www.cgirealms.com/ 20 MB free CGI enabled web space.
  • http://www.acmecity.com/ 20 MB free web space; free email;
  • Free Nation http://www.cybercity.hko.net/ 7 MB of free web space and free email; CGI-BIN
  • http://phrantic.com/
  • http://xoom.com/ 11 MB of Free Web Site Space + Free Email
  • http://www.switchboard.com/
  • http://www.freeyellow.com/ 12 MB free web space
  • http://www.Angelfire.com/ 5 MB free web space. free... with ads http://angelfire.lycos.com/doc/subscriptions/index.html http://angelfire.lycos.com/
  • http://www.suresite.com/
  • http://register.theglobe.com/join/register.qry (6 MBytes free)
  • The Internet Yellow Pages Network http://iypn.com/freewebpage.html [offline ?] or http://yellowpage.net/

  There's another list of website hosts at:

  • http://onlywebmasters.com/browse-79.html has a list of free website hosts
  • "Free Website Providers" http://freewebsiteproviders.com/
  • How to Get a Site (for free) http://bondageredsrealm.com/shevette/getsite.html
  • "Free Website Providers for Business Webpages" http://freewebsiteproviders.com/free-business-webhosts.php
  • "Free Website Hosting" http://webmastersheaven.com/index-66.html

  email boxes

  free one-way email boxes ("throw-away email addresses")

  • All email sent to any_address@spam.la is publicly readable at http://spam.la/ .
  • throw-away account to the max:

    Pick jonesy@mailinator.com or bipster@mailinator.com - pick anything you want (up to 15 characters before the @ sign).

    Later, come to this site and check that account. Its that easy. Mailinator accounts are created when mail arrives for them. No signup, no personal information, and when you're done - you can walk away - an instant solution to one way spammers get your address. The emails will automatically be deleted for you after a few hours.

    http://www.mailinator.com/mailinator/Welcome.do -- recc. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SpamProof

  • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SpamProof

  free email: (in no particular order) [FIXME: move to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_email_providers ]

  • https://hushmail.com/ "free, secure web-based email and document storage system, featuring transparent, end-to-end 2048 bit encryption" "The source code to the Hush Encryption Engine, which provides key management, encryption, and digital signature functionality for Hushmail, is available"
  • http://www.free-email-address.com/ is a site like this one that lists and reviews free email places. [FIXME: does this make my list irrelevant ?]
  • http://comm.lycos.com/Get FREE Email/Voicemail with 15MB at Lycos Communications
  • http://www.linuxmail.org
  • http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=free+email+account&btnG=Google+Search
  • http://www.thetruereligion.org/free.htm ``an Islamic email service''
  • http://spacemail.com/
  • http://www.n2mail.com/
  • http://www.chickmail.com/
  • http://www.netaddress.usa.net/ (no longer free) web-based email
  • http://www.bigfoot.com/ Free Web-Based E-mail + URL redirection.
  • http://www.mailexcite.com
  • http://www.mailcity.com
  • http://www.switchboard.com/
  • http://www.juno.com/
  • http://www.hotmail.com (Has this moved to http://login.passport.net/uilogin.srf?id=2 ?)
  • http://www.GeoCities.com/
  • "Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com/"
  • http://register.theglobe.com/join/register.qry
  • http://mail.freetown.com/Html/mail.freetown.com/terms.html
  • http://www.mail2web.com/ doesn't actually store your messages like these other places; it allows you to access your messages stored on a standard (POP3) email server elsewhere. http://www.web2mail.com/lite/welcome.php
  • an experimental web-based email access system, EmuMail. It can be accessed at https://www.rdrop.com/emu/emumail.cgi (only works if you already have a rdrop account)

  email forwarding services

  Free email forwarding services:

  • http://www.netforward.com/

  email forwarding services:

  • SpamMotel http://spammotel.com/ is a free (2-way) email forwarding service that generates random email addresses for you to give to untrusted sites on the net. You dispose of these addresses easily if spam ever starts flowing http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SpamMotel
  • http://www.pobox.com/
  • http://www.bigfoot.com/ef/en/index.jsp (does free email forwarding to your current email address and free web page redirects to your current web page)

  Mailing list services

  Searching for Mailing Lists

  See also dav_info.html#mailing_list (mailing lists to which DAV has subscribed).

  • The Comprehensive Internet Reference (TILE) http://tile.net/ lists hundreds of mailing lists.
  • http://catalog.com/vivian/interest-group-search.html [offline ?]
  • http://www.liszt.com/
  • OSU mailing lists local.html#osu
  • publicly-accessible mailing lists http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/mail/mailing-lists/top.html
  • Reference.com (locates mailing lists and newsgroups)
  • You can find more mailing lists by emailing "To: Majordomo@world.std.com" ("Subject:" line will be completely ignored. ) "lists" in the body of the message to show the lists served by this Majordomo server. (Other Majordomo servers work the same way).

  If you don't find a mailing list on your favorite subject, perhaps you can create your own #mailing_list (it's free).

  setting up a new mailing list

  Before using these services to set up a mailing list on some subject, perhaps you would like to see if someone has already set up a mailing list on that subject: #mailing_list .

  See also local.html#pmail (includes hybrid "starts out electronic, ends up on paper" services)

  free mailing list hosting at

  • OSU mailing list services #osu
  • http://www.topica.com/ free hosting, ... start your own email discussion group ...
  • "FreeLists, a service providing free, commercial-grade Internet mailing lists" http://www.freelists.org/
  • Yahoo! Groups http://groups.yahoo.com/ /* formerly known as eGroups.com http://www.eGroups.com/ */ free hosting ... "start your own e-mail group and manage all of your e-mail subscriptions using a simple Web interface." "free e-mail community system." /* has also absorbed ONElist, Inc. http://www.onelist.com/ */ /* has also absorbed http://www.findmail.com/info/makelist.html */
  • The Free "Cool List" Email Service http://coollist.com/ set up your own free mailing list. [offline ?]
  • QuickTopic free bulletin boards http://QuickTopic.com/

    "QuickThreadSM lets you upgrade any existing group email conversation to a QuickTopicSM discussion ... Participants don't have to change the way they work. The conversation continues naturally by email, with no extra steps needed -- people simply hit the email Reply button as usual. ... Essentially, you've started a mini-mailing-list that's backed by a web-based bulletin board (or if you prefer the term, a group weblog with full email interoperability). ... "

    "How do I edit or delete a message that I posted?

    If you were signed in when you posted the message (indicated by a star next to your name), you can edit or delete it any time."

    When you create a new topic, you become the topic administrator, which allows you to delete inappropriate messages.

  • "ListBot service has been discontinued." ListBot http://www.listbot.com/ but points to and suggests we look at http://groups.msn.com/home.msnw?pgmarket=en-us and http://www.bcentral.com/

  Mailing List Considerations:

  • think about putting a line like this in the header:

    	To-Get-Off-This-List: mail majordomo@seul.org, body unsubscribe seul-project
    	

  • Archive the list.
    • Some archive servers let people grep through the old messages by sending 'grep <egrep params> latest/*' to MISC-request@pisa.rockefeller.edu .
    • http://gmane.org/ free ? a bidirectional mailing-list to Usenet News gateway, where articles never expire.
    • http://www.mail-archive.com/ "An easy-to-use archiving service for electronic mailing lists." a site that will automatically create a www accessible and searchable archive of mailing lists. free. [offline ?]
  • http://list-etiquette.com/
  • the natural life cycle of mailing lists http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~adam/LOCAL/faq-fork.html#lifecycle (also the Ten Commandments of Posting here looks nice)
  • Q: How many internet mail list subscribers does it take to change a light bulb? http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/97/May/listlb.html (also at http://repairfaq.cis.upenn.edu/sam/humor.htm#hum000 ) (funny)
  • http://spamcop.net/reported.shtml describes the correct procedure for setting up a mailing list. Briefly: -- someone claiming to be the owner of an email address sends you email or types "his" address into a web form. -- you send email with a random confirmation code to that address. -- if and only if that confirmation code is returned to you, then add that email to your mailing list.

  online file storage

  free online file storage (non-public, private) (see web_space for public web space) (see http://worldwidewiki.net/ for public wiki web space)

  • free 20 MB of (non-public, private) storage space http://www.freedrive.com/
  • http://www.xdrive.com/index_express.html 40 MB free; plus a few more if you sign other people up. [FIXME: offline ?]
  • http://www.driveway.com/ free 25 MB

  domain name services

  people who help you set up http://whatever.com/ .

  See also: Whois can tell you if that clever domain name you thought up search_tools.html#whois has already been taken, and by who.

  • How to get your very own domain name ``So you want your very own www.you.com or www.yourcompany.com domain name eh ?'' http://www.wdvl.com/Quadzilla/Domain_Names/
  • "Free Domains" http://webmastersheaven.com/index-34.html

  • Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 09:48:19 -0700 (PDT)
    From: Josh Fellman
    To: David Cary <d.cary at ieee.org>
    

    Domains are about 9 bucks www.godaddy.com

    free hosting, 50 setup fee www.freehostingweb.com

  • http://hackingthemainframe.com/lite/thread.php?topic_id=2314 mentions
    • http://register.com/
    • http://papa.ca/
    • http://www.domainsatcost.ca/ -- "$12.95/year for a .ca domain."
    • free "DNS hosting" (URL forwarding) http://www.mydomain.com/
    • "Dynamic DNS providers" http://technopagan.org/dynamic/
  • http://www.whois.sc/
  • http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/11/18/large_hosts_slash_domain_name_prices.html seems to say domain names from ~ $7 to ~$30 per year
  • $20/year domain names http://www.namezero.com/domains.php Domain-based email forwarding Domain URL forwarding
  • $15/year domain names http://cwnic.com/
  • $14/year domain names http://www.ns.com/
  • $14/year domain names http://123cheapdomains.com/
  • $15/year domain names with 10MB web space (no ads), E-mail account (POP3), etc. http://nameroute.com/
  • $15/year domain names http://www.ampira.com/domain_names/
  • $15/year domain names http://wsmdomains.com/
  • $99/year: 500 MB disk space, 25 GB data transfer/month 100 Email Accounts CGI, PHP http://fatcow.com/
  • $15/year domain names FREE Unlimited Email Forwarding http://discountdomainregistry.com/
  • $10/year domain names http://easycgi.com/
  • $15/year domain names (for 1 domain ... the $9/year is for .co.uk .org.uk .me.uk domains, $18/ 2years) http://domainnamesystems.com/
  • $11/year domain names http://www.rackshare.com/
  • $15/year domain names http://dotmaniac.com/
  • $10/year domain names + $1.00 /month "basic hosting" Comes with your own webspace, email account, ftp access, and ... http://hostica.com/
  • http://www.webjump.com/hosting.htm
  • http://www.networksolutions.com/
  • http://glo.com/domain.html
  • http://www.dreamhost.com/ domain name registration
  • http://www.nybusinesslink.com
  • http://website.ws/

    What do .WS domains cost?

    Current Fees: 4+ letters (for example ABCD.WS) $US 35 per year

  • When you buy a domain name, your ISP usually handles all the details for you. You don't have to directly deal with "InterNIC Registration" at

    Network Solutions, Inc.

    • http://rs.internic.net/cgi-bin/domain [offline ?] (? http://www.internic.net/ ?)
    • ftp://rs.internic.net/templates/domain-template.txt
    • http://www.netsol.com/rs/dispute-policy.html
    • http://rs.internic.net/help/instructions.txt

    .

  • Monolith Internet Services http://www.ml.org/ hosts "The Free Domain Project offers free hostnames to machines and subdomains." "Monolith is a non-profit organization ... dedicated to giving free services to the Internet Community. It is completely run by volunteers." Apparently it runs under Linux.

  • From: David Cary <d.cary at ieee.org>
    To: Mark Cary, Paul Cary
    Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 2:36 PM
    Subject: Tokelau domain names
    

    Dear Mark,

    The country of Tokelau http://www.tk/ claims to be giving out free domain names.

    Do you think it's a good idea for me to claim a couple ?

    -- David Cary

    From: "Mark Cary"
    To: "David Cary" <d.cary at ieee.org>
    Subject: Re: Tokelau domain names
    Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 18:36:24 -0600
    

    Free is only for URL forwarding. and you don't really own the domain. http://www.tk/vc00802.html not really all the cool but interesting none the less.

  • New Internet Domains http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/Tech/Domain_Names_and_Registration/ ``domain names ending in ``.museum,'' ``.coop,'' and ``.aero,'' ... ``.biz,'' ``.info,'' and ``.name'' ... [have been] approved.''
  • "Why does one use "www.foo.com" as a server name? Why not just "foo.com"?" -- Tim Berners-Lee http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/www.html DAV: I prefer plain "http://foo.com/" myself. Why make stuff I type into the URI address bar any longer than necessary ?
  • what's a good reference to getting a *computer* connected 24/7 to the internet, getting a domain name, etc. ? I know one needs to buy a computer (co-locations) or buy time on a computer (virtual server). Also one needs to buy a "domain name" from internic http://www.internic.net/ for $35/year, soon to switch (?) to http://www.arin.net/
  • http://www.wordsinarow.com/domain.html has advice on picking a domain name, how to register it, and recommends http://www.webwizards.net/ "a good, cheap web hosting company."
  • http://ronholt.com/ has some information on domain name registration and WHOIS databases.
  • http://not.invisible.net/dot/ ???

  "Try our new improved program tongue tied to help you find names that might closely match your desired domain name." http://domainnamesystems.com/tonguetied/ ???

  Usenet News

  • http://news.spaceports.com/
  • Premium Usenet Providers http://www.exit109.com/~jeremy/news/providers/ describes how to shop for a Usenet News provider, what features to look for, and a list of Usenet News providers.
  • "101 Ways to be Obnoxious on Usenet" by Alan Meiss (quoted by Reuben King) http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/96q1/usenet.html

  unsorted

  other free web stuff

  • Eudora Web-Mail http://www.eudoramail.com/ | http://eudoramail.lycos.com/ free web-based email.
  • iMira http://www.iMira.com/ gives away 20 MB of space for your public online photo album.
  • http://www.laughingsquid.net/ OK, so it's $20/month (unless you qualify for their ``starving artist'' status), but at least they have a sense of humor.
  • http://www.freestation.com/ free email free webspace (how much ?)
  • http://www.freeride.com/ ???

  ...

  • CGI script hosts http://www.redrival.com/faq.shtml#q7 ??
  • Web Email services: reviewed. http://www.consumersearch.com/www/computers/web_email/
  • [getonline] free email and webspace http://www.crosswinds.net/
  • http://www.stubaby.plus.com/freebee.htm ???
  • http://www.deardiary.org/ makes it easy to throw something online without all those annoying technical details.
  • http://www.hostingchristians.com/ low-cost hosting ???
  • http://home.earthlink.net/~mrob/pub/data.html#webhost has a nice table comparing the prices of various web-hosting companies (in 1999). (and disk space, email mailboxes, etc.)
  • http://members.cox.net/roeckelein_aaip/internet.htm ???
  • http://boxfrog.com/ "free anonymous email account"
  • http://word.net/ ???
  • http://netdepot.org/ metasearch ???
  • http://glo.com/internet.html ???
  • "Sign up now for your free weblog." http://20six.co.uk/
  • £15 per month: Full root access on your own dedicated host ... Full Linux hosts ... distribution of choice (Debian, Gentoo, Slackware or another major commercial distribution) http://bytemark-hosting.co.uk/
  • [funny 404 error messages] http://holt.org/linux-2.4.0/
  • http://rdrop.com/agora/services.html
  • "We provide free storage and free bandwidth for your videos, audio files, photos, text or software. Forever. No catches." http://ourmedia.org/
  • http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/WS/OS:Hosting_my_Free_Software_project_(What_online_services_can_i_use_for)

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