Xavier Media Free Guide

1997 Museum Edition — free resources and small-web culture from the early Xavier network.

Restoration note: The previous copy had lost its HTML punctuation during an encoding-related rewrite. This safe museum edition restores a working page while preserving the documented themes of the surviving source.
Open the 1997 Xavier FreeGuide reconstruction

Free software

Shareware, screensavers, browsers, chat clients and practical downloads were central to the original guide.

Free samples

The guide collected offers for magazines, product samples, CDs, books and other mail-order freebies.

Homepages and webmaster tools

Visitors could explore free homepage services, JavaScript resources, banners, links and early site-promotion tools.

Games, postcards and UFOs

Online games, Internet postcards and paranormal links reflected the playful mix of services in the 1997 network.