There aren’t enough free things in this world, if you ask me, so if you find a cool thing on the internet that helps you in one way or another, sharing is caring, don’t you think?
These 11 Redditors have some thoughts on what you might be missing out on for free online!
11. For all of the parents struggling with math.
So, most of us these days.
Image Credit: Wolfram Alpha
They have a lot of cool tools for math, science and even things like nutrition
10. We should all be in the know.
Even if nothing is really happening.
Image Credit: Govtrack.us
It’s a website dedicated to tracking the bills and votes of Congress. You can find out who proposed what bill, when they did, and when they will be voting on it. Critical for staying in the know
9. Free Photoshop? Tell me more…
This is pretty awesome.
Image Credit: Photopea
Can’t believe I haven’t seen anyone say https://www.photopea.com/
Its literally free photoshop, and it’s even web based.
8. At home workouts are at an all-time high.
Because so is at-home calorie consumption.
Image Credit: Gym Virtual
They are a completely free guidance of exercises to get fit, at home and by oneself.
Now, it’s all in Spanish, BUT you don’t really need to know the language in order to go along with it.
7. I’m definitely going to use this.
A writer’s dream!
Image Credit: Word Hippo
It is, hands down, the best online thesaurus ever. You can search synonyms and antonyms, and it includes slang, explicit language, and multi-word phrases, all of which are typically excluded in other thesauruses I’ve used. This feature lets you find both more specific/academic/professional words and more general/slang/colloquial words. It’s saved my sanity in term papers and texts alike.
When you search a word or phrase, you get a page that breaks down synonyms by meaning and part of speech (check out this page for “live,” with 11 verb usages, 13 adjective usages, and 3 adverb usages).
Bonus: I actually ended up using to Wordhippo while writing this comment.
6. Someone to listen.
Who aren’t your friends who are sick of it, I guess.
Image Credit: 7 Cups
It is a free, safe, and anonymous way to talk to trained listeners about anything going on in your life.
There are also group chat rooms where you can talk to peers who may experience something similar to you!
Couldn’t recommend it more.
5. Hello, Gen X.
And Millennials. I guess.
Image Credit: My 90s TV
It’s pretty cool and you can easily lose yourself for hours with nostalgia.
It uses YouTube videos to simulate watching TV in 90s and you can specify what year you want and what categories you want to see when you change channels.
There is also a My 80s TV and a My 70s TV and the dev has said they are considering building one for the 2000s.
4. Learn something new every day.
For free? Even better!
Image Credit: Coursera
You can audit a course for free. Free classes (just no grade/test)
3. Sounds like it has it all.
How could you argue, really?
Image Credit: Archive.org
I always love the opportunity to be able to talk about http://archive.org because it is such a wonderful and free resource.
It has millions of free downloads for music, movies, books, software, etc. One very popular example is that it is home to a very large catalog of Grateful Dead recordings
There is also The Internet Arcade where you can play a lot of classic games along with the Console Living Room which is similar. They have access to tons of old PC games too and you can even play the original Oregon Trail online. There’s a lot more in their software section too.
It also has The WayBack Machine which has archived more than 451 billion web pages saved so you can go back and see how websites were years ago. For example, here’s reddit on July 25, 2005 a month after it was created.
DaVinci resolve is a great editing software!
2. If you don’t need it, you probably know someone who does.
Or you’re living in a really small bubble.
Image Credit: Find Help
http://www.findhelp.org lists all of the free and reduced cost resources in the US.
Starting with your Zip Code, it returns food banks, housing shelters, financial assistance, buss passes, etc.
It’a completely free to use with no ads.
1. If you want to blow your mind.
And who doesn’t want that?
Image Credit: Library of Babel
A fun thing to just check out is the first ever website. Something else that’s really cool is The Library of Babel, which essentially contains every possible string of letters, periods, and commas.
At first glance it seems a bit uninteresting, until you realize every story, text message, word, thought, the names of every person who ever lived, the names of every person who didn’t live, the secrets behind the creation of our universe, are technically within the many many volumes of the library.
You can search anything you want in the library and it’ll find it for you. It’s honestly quite mind blowing.
Definitely putting some of these in my back pocket, how about you?
Tell us in the comments which ones appealed to you the most, or if you have something to add!
