What free things online should everyone take advantage of?

Indibekar

Knowledge
MOOCs (Massively Online Open Courses)

• [size=1em]Coursera
  
• [size=1em]edX
  
• [size=1em]Udacity
  
• [size=1em]FutureLearn
  
• [size=1em]MIT OpenCourseWare
  
• [size=1em]Open Education Database from /u/sequestration
  
• [size=1em]Academic Earth from /u/sequestration
  
• [size=1em]Udemy from /u/sequestration
  
• [size=1em]Open College at Kaplan University from /u/sequestration
  
  

Music

• [size=1em]MusicTheory.net, Teoria
  
• [size=1em]IMSLP
  
• [size=1em]Classical Guitar Tablature
  
• [size=1em]Practice Sight Reading
  
• [size=1em]Sight read Guitar - Youtube channel
  
• [size=1em]MuseScore
  
  

Languages

• [size=1em]BliuBliu
  
• [size=1em]Lang8
  
• [size=1em]Duolingo
  
• [size=1em]italki Not fully free, but free to find partners and natives to learn from.
  
• [size=1em]/r/Language_Exchange
  
• [size=1em]ielanguages
  
• [size=1em]Easy Languages - Youtube channel
  
• [size=1em]Language Transfer from /u/sequestration
  
• [size=1em]Clozemaster from /u/wakawakafoobar
  
• [size=1em]LearnwithOliver from /u/delpino and some other guy, sorry for missing you, but I'm swamped with replies
  
  

Other

• [size=1em]KhanAcademy
  
• [size=1em]Codecademy
  
• [size=1em]FreeCodeCamp from /u/sekoku
  
• [size=1em]HackerRank
  
• [size=1em]Anki, Mnemosyne, Memrise
  
• [size=1em]Instructables
  
• [size=1em]PCGamingWiki
  
• [size=1em]Wolfram Alpha
  
• [size=1em]Bookzz from /u/PantheraLupus
  
  

E-Books

• [size=1em]Project Gutenberg - Primarily public domain.
  
• [size=1em]Feedbooks
  
• [size=1em]SmashWords
  
  

Audiobooks

• [size=1em]LibriVox - Primarily public domain.
  
• [size=1em]PodioBooks
  
  

Video games
Freeware:

• The Free Bundle
  

Multiplayer games you might've never heard of (all 100% free, without microtransactions):

• [size=1em]Renegade X
  
• [size=1em]America's Army
  
• [size=1em]No More Room in Hell
  
• [size=1em]Alien Swarm
  
• [size=1em]0 AD
  
• [size=1em]OpenRA
  
• [size=1em]Battle for Wesnoth
  
• [size=1em]SCP - Containment: Breach
  
  

Freeware and F2P games recommended by other users:

• [size=1em]Simutrans, Open TTD
  
• [size=1em]Armor Critical
  
• [size=1em]Black Mesa Source
  
• [size=1em]Cry of Fear
  
• [size=1em]Planetside 2
  
• [size=1em]Town of Salem
  
• [size=1em]Duelyst
  
• [size=1em]OpenSpades from /u/jhh2898
  
• [size=1em]Initium from /u/lewiscbe
  
• [size=1em]Chronicle: Runescape Legends from /u/death_and_delay
  
• [size=1em]Dirty Bomb from /u/BurberryPert
  
• [size=1em]Teeworlds from /u/iamunknowntwo
  
• [size=1em]Warlight from /u/WashingtonRedskins28
  
• [size=1em]Nethack, Doom Rogue
  
• [size=1em]Air Bucaneers, The Legend of Pirates Online, Cockatrice, Runescape, Dwarf Fortress
  
  

Abandonware:

• [size=1em]Abandonia
  
• [size=1em]MyAbandonware
  
• [size=1em]Home of the Underdogs
  
  

Older games (not in the above sites):

• [size=1em]Marathon series
  
• [size=1em]Warzone 2100
  
• [size=1em]First 3 C&C games
  
• [size=1em]Dune 2000
  
• [size=1em]All the Earthsiege and Tribes games (even the PS2 one).
  
• [size=1em]The Elder Scrolls Arena and Daggerfall
  
  

F2P (microtransactions)

• [size=1em]Steam F2P section - Some of these are completely freeware. Most of them are multiplayer.
  
• [size=1em]MMOBomb.com - They also have a list of F2P games.
  
  

MOBAs (other than LoL and Dota2):

• [size=1em]SMITE
  
• [size=1em]AirMech
  
• [size=1em]Strife
  
• [size=1em]Heroes of the Storm
  
  

Other

• [size=1em]Path of Exile (in my opinion, the best and fairest F2P MMORPG) - Action RPG, similar to Diablo
  
• [size=1em]Team Fortress 2 (in my opinion, the fairest F2P FPS, and you can buy the premium account with Steam Trading Cards from 2 games)
  
• [size=1em]Card Hunter (for those who like board games)
  
• [size=1em]Pokemon TCG
  
• [size=1em]Hearthstone (for those who like collectible card games)
  
  

More Games:

• [size=1em]Tribes: Ascend
  
• [size=1em]Sauerbraten
  
• [size=1em]SNESfun
  
  

Freeware sites

• [size=1em]FileHippo
  
• [size=1em]Ninite
  
• [size=1em]TechSupportAlert
  
  

Other

• [size=1em]Guerilla Mail, 10 Minute Mail
  
• [size=1em]PortableApps
  
• [size=1em]Pixlr - Online image editor (like Photoshop, but very lite). Also includes desktop version.
  
• [size=1em]LastPass, KeePass - 2 different password managers, LastPass works inside the browser, KeePass has its own program.
  
  

Some programs I like to use

• [size=1em]7zip
  
• [size=1em]MusicBee - A well-rounded music manager with a wealth of additional features like ripping, normalizing, converting...
  
• [size=1em]SumatraPDF - Ultra-light and all I need for reading PDFs
  
• [size=1em]MPC-HC - Like VLC but more lightweight.
  
• [size=1em]Notepad++ Source code editor and Notepad replacement.
  
• [size=1em]EditPadLite - Notepad with just the text editing.
  
• [size=1em]Brackets.io
  
• [size=1em]MalwareBytes Anti-Malware - Pretty much my secondary, on-demand malware scanner alongside my primary, real-time scanner
  
• [size=1em]F.lux
  
• [size=1em]LibreOffice
  
• [size=1em]MS Office Viewers - If LibreOffice fails to open MS Office files correctly, this steps in.
  
• [size=1em]CCleaner (/u/rytone says that it's known to cause a lot of issues with windows 10 like messing up the search function.)
  
• [size=1em]RevoUninstaller
  
• [size=1em]GIMP, Paint.net Picture editors akin to Photoshop; GIMP has more features, Paint.net is more accessible.
  
• [size=1em]Audiojack from /u/gm-
  
• [size=1em]Atom editor from /u/Pudge_The_Fish
  
• [size=1em]Krita from /u/I_heart_blastbeats
  
• [size=1em]IrfanView, Celtx, Blender from /u/Lemuriffic
  
  

Stuff on Reddit

• [size=1em]/r/threadkillers
  
• [size=1em]/r/FreeGameFindings
  
• [size=1em]/r/RandomActsOfGaming
  
  

Free music to listen to

• [size=1em]Youtube - Of course.
  
• [size=1em]OCRemix - Video game music remixes and rearrangements.
  
• [size=1em]Archive.org - An archive for a lot of things, including music and live sets of Grateful Dead, Phish...
  
• [size=1em]Buckethead - Twisterlend (Pike #39) - Great speed metal 30-minute instrumental album.
  
• [size=1em]Zelda Reorchestrated
  
  

leesam3

Oh my!  What a list!  You have got it all covered.  Thanks.

Indibekar

leesam3 15-8-2018 06:16 AM
Oh my!  What a list!  You have got it all covered.  Thanks.

thamk you

karthikcet

Wow useful info

Ananya10

What a great information u have provided all in one place. This is what is must for today's time the resources should be open to all...there must be no restrictions!

dhiraj055

Awesome list. Accessible from across the globe

Don_tgomez

On Education I appreciate the fact you listed future learn. It's a great place to learn. I did a course in journalism there way back. Very instructive too.

dxt02

Useful info

parivijesh100

Not necessary but how to control it. Free material may be misused or misutilised by a meagre proportion but for lager interest , let it be free for every one.

RobbieWetta872

Thank you for taking the time and effort to pull this list together. Its really helpful.