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Free free free now
Many free, useful services live on the Web. In honour of the new year, I just installed another: a tracker that lets me know how many people have visited this site and how they might get here (search engine, link, etc.). The hardest bit was getting it to work while keeping my page fully compliant with the official HTML 4.0 code specification. (If that makes no sense to you, ignore it and read on. It barely makes sense to me.)
The Guardian's "Seven Wonders of the Web" includes free services I use every day, such as Google, Blogger, and eBay.
The Internet was built on free things (in both the "free beer" and "free speech" senses), and they remain its best attributes. I hope it stays that way.
