This page is part of the MAQTOOB Heritage archive. The essay described here appeared on MAQTOOB for Entrepreneurs, the Medium publication run by this domain’s original team between 2015 and 2018. The current site is under new, independent ownership and is not affiliated with the original company or the essay’s author. We keep this record because other sites still link to the essay at this address.
What the Essay Said
Kristyna Zapletal published this list on July 1, 2015, and it became the most widely shared piece MAQTOOB ever ran. The premise was simple: forget overpriced schools and crowded classrooms, because the internet already teaches almost anything for free. The list gathered 37 sites in groups, from full online course platforms such as edX, Coursera, Udemy, and Skillshare, to coding schools such as Codecademy, freeCodeCamp, Udacity, and CodeCombat, plus language, music, and creative skill resources.
By the author’s own account the post recorded more than 32,000 recommends on Medium, trended there for weeks, and was republished and translated by magazines around the world. Years later, freeCodeCamp’s founder Quincy Larson and many productivity writers were still pointing readers to it.
Read the Original
The author keeps the essay on her personal Medium account: The 37 Best Websites to Learn Something New. An archived copy of the MAQTOOB version is on the Wayback Machine.