16 super cool things you can do on the Internet for free
The Beatles sang it and countless philosophers have claimed it. The best things in life are free. If you are hanging out on the internet, the answer is a resounding yes. Check out the sixteen free things you can do online below.
If this online awesomeness has you feeling nostalgic for the old days of the internet, take a trip back in time. Check out 14 websites from the 1990s that are somehow still around.
In this guide
Educational resources
1. Learn to code
Learn coding for free at Code Academy. They offer interactive lessons in several computer languages such as HTML and Python.
2. Learn a language
Duolingo offers free language learning in Spanish, French, Italian, German and Portuguese.
3. Take free online courses
Coursera, MIT and Khan Academy all offer free online courses that cover just about everything.
Creative tools and media
4. Retouch photos
GIMP offers free photo manipulation software.
5. Read a book
Find tons of classic e-books at Project Gutenberg and Open Library. If you want to organize your ebooks, check out Calibre.
6. Get free sheet music
IMSLP has a library of free downloadable sheet music in the public domain.
7. Watch a complete documentary
Documentary Heaven has tons of amazing documentaries available online for free.
8. Listen to your favourite music
Listen to your favorite songs, find new artists and make playlists at Spotify, or listen to online radio at Grooveshark.
Practical services
9. Get free boxes
Moving? Get free boxes from USPS.
10. Get medicine
You can find coupons for your prescriptions at GoodRx.
11. Manage your finances
Mint helps you track your spending easily for free.
12. Find your laptop
Prey Anti-Theft helps you to protect your devices from theft by tracking their location.
Social and personal wellbeing
13. Improve your vocabulary and fight world hunger
Free Rice donates 10 grains of rice for every vocabulary question that you get right. If you use AdBlock, be sure to turn it off. It is how they are able to donate.
14. Talk with a therapist
You can talk online privately with a trained active listener or therapist at 7 Cups of Tea.
15. Make friends with an inmate
Meet-An-Inmate is an online penpal service for the currently incarcerated.
16. Relax
Check out Rainy Mood for a little ambiance.
Bonus content
Smile, thanks to the world’s happiest facts.
Once again proving the internet is both the greatest invention and maybe the greatest time sucker in history :)
All the websites you suggested here are just great.These are really very useful..Rightly said Internet is great invention but not a time sucker it helps to stay connected to world and advanced technology..Great post..
I disagree to internet being time sucker- Its totally on to the user. Greatest invention so true.
The Mint website is great, though I also highly recommend you check out WaveApps.com, it is a free accounting software. We use it for small business management and personal finances. I am also wondering who would seek out an inmate pen-pal. Anyone tried that, would love to hear about it.
Wave looks great! Thanks for the suggestion.
Porn. You forgot Porn!
This guy knows what’s good!
The boxes you can get for free from the USPS are for shipping, and too small for realistically using as moving boxes.
Yes, agreed. I’ve picked up good heavy boxes for moving from the local liquor store.
And if you use them as moving boxes, you’re stealing and causing USPS to lose money.
It is super illegal to use the Priority Mail boxes for anything other than mail, just FYI….
Amazing!
so useful websites these are.. thanx for this
That are great but I was stuck only in the image :)
Awesome information shared you in this post, I never forget to share my friends. I just try GIMP image manipulation software for make image.
Thanks
Really collected something different to do on internet apart from gaming LOL :P
I did not know you could talk to a therapist for free online. That’s good to know, and a new link to point my readers towards! Cool…
You can also learn to play guitar http://dragonguitar.com/play/learn-to-play-guitar
:) güzell
Awesome information shared you in this post,so useful websites these are
thanks
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All these above very nice and very informative. Specially for those who are using internet for whole the day and they do spend maximum time of their day on internet. I would like to suggest one money earning tip as well by doing Satta Matka guessing and playing Kalyan Matka online.
LOL hahaa…i like the Cat
It is amazing how much one can infer
about another person, just by their
comment.
Well, Social bookmarking websites are those on which people share or search web pages, blog posts, videos, images, articles etc., that other people have bookmarked with the help of metadata
If you ever read the sides of the boxes from USPS it is a felony to use it for a purpose other than shipping through USPS
You forget video games brooooo
What did we ever do without the internet. Really everyday it blows my mind in someway or other
why so much worry about the USPS?
Thanks for sharing such ace, ace list :)
Awesome list. Thanks a million for making.
Very useful sharing.How about add something about freeware or open-source software?As you know freeware is also great stuff on the internet.
Thanks for sharing such kinds of info
You forget to mention, waste hours of your life on surfing the net with no particular purpose. That is what I use the net for.
What an awesome list! Thanks for finding and sharing :)
Really great think and list, very useful for me.Thanks.
Awesome things man.. Music, coding and designing are my things.. Thanks mate for this article..
Thanks for sharing, its a awesome…
wow,, nice article.. thank you…
What an awesome article, Thanks for sharing use full and interesting data.
If you like ebooks, obooko.com has free ebooks, and it’s a great way to discover new authors. Bookbub.com shows you ebooks that are om sale or free across different websites. There really is so much you can do online!
Wow man thats some useful information specially the first one I have been learning some languages lately but I am really amaze to see such a great learning site for free thank you for sharing.
Great Article. i am sure we can even do more
Great article. Spent a ton of time playing around. Keep up the awesome work! :)
Very nice article, well written ,I think it has covered all major browsing stuff that we can cover for free.
Great article, very nice for those who need something to do online… Some of these are actually very useful in life!
Did anyone actually TRY 7 cups of tea therapy? Someone who barely types English had this response to my dilemma — Ok, then? OK then? what the heck qualifies that as therapy or help.
Better start with Project Gutenberg and other eBook sites. If you’re gonna spend time in the internet, why not learn something useful right?
Internet is the best and worst thing ever invented
The internet has almost everything one needs or want, it is the reason we spend less time with our families, still I love having internet :)
Wow.. Rainy Mood is just awesome!! love it.
While all the points are true and valid in own sense. I personally liked free online courses. We all know that there are millions out over there, who are deprived education for some reason or other.
This kind of free courses definitely go long way building nations.
That are great but I was stuck only in the image ?
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Nice list but I wouldn’t try to become friends with an in-mate :)
Wow.. Rainy Mood is just awesome!! love it.
My family always say tha I amm killing my time here at net,
except I know I am getting knowledge efery day by reading such
good posts.
this is cool and very informative