Listed below are Free Internet Service Providers that I am currently running on one of my computers. The free ISP's use Windows 95/98 (some support NT and Mac) and have 56K dial-up access. They all co-exist without any conflicts. While I don't want to recommend one over the others, because they all work pretty well and some may work better than others for you, depending on your dialing location, my advice would be to try several of them. It's allways nice to have a backup. If you want a free personal home page that is really easy to use, try FortuneCity (click on "fortunecity.com" on the banner at the top of this page).

Note: There 4 ISP's from Spinway (address.com, BlueLight, NetTaxi and Xoom.com). If you install more than one of them on the same computer, the local access number(s) that you choose for one changes to that number for the others. This is not a big problem on my computer.

Note: This information changes from time to time. Freewwweb.com and WorldSpyNet (both of which had no banner ads) are no longer available. iFreedom.com will now only work with tone (but not pulse) dialing.

1Nation OnLine
Uses POP3 email, like Outlook Express and newsgroups. No banner ads.

address.com
From Spinway. Web based email only. Very simple home page - few links. In the future they are going to add: Free Instant Messaging, Free Chat and Free Home pages at username.address.com

AltaVista
From 1stUp. Web based email only. Home page is very customizeable. Lots of useful links. You can accumulate bonus points towards mechandise - I almost have enough for a free portable MP3 player.

BlueLight
From Spinway. Uses Yahoo as home page. Web based email only. Free personal homepage through GeoCities. The installation program installs a Yahoo bar in your browser which takes up some desktop space, but you can easily uninstall it if you want to.

dotNow!
Allows user to use web based email or POP3 email, like Outlook Express. Free personal web page includes 20 megabytes of web space.

Fanz.net
Uses POP3 email, like Outlook Express and newsgroups. Small ad banner on screen.

freeInteret.com
Main browser window similar to AOL. Web based email only.

FreeLane
From 1stUp. Powered by Excite. I use excite as my home page. It is very easy to customize. Web based email only.

iFreedom
This ISP has a banner that pops up every 20 minutes. When you click on an ad, the banner disappears and the ad opens in a separate browser window. This is almost as good as an ad banner free ISP. You also get 16 mb free webspace, free POP3 email account (using Outlook Express) and newsgroups, 50 mb free file storage and free newsgroup access (using Outlook Express).

Juno
They have both free and pay for internet service. Uses web based email that will receive email with embedded pictures, sound, etc.

Lycos
From 1stUp. Web based email only.

NetTaxi
From Spinway. Web based email only. Free personal home page

NetZero
Uses POP3 email account only (using Outlook Express)

The Simpsons
From 1stUp. The theme of this ISP is The Simpsons on Fox TV. Allows user to use web based email or POP3 email, like Outlook Express.

The Stream
Web based email only. Free business website.

Xoom
From Spinway. Web based email only. Uses Snap.com as home page. Free personal home page.