Most of the internet is built to keep you. Feeds that don't end, gates that don't open, products that measure how long they held your attention. Help Terminal is the opposite. It is a doorway, not a room. You arrive, you say what you need, and it points you at something real, then it wants you to leave.
If today is heavy, it routes you to people — 988, the Crisis Text Line, warmlines — free, human, and available now. If you want a way in, it points you at genuinely free paths into code: freeCodeCamp, The Odin Project, Harvard's CS50, MDN. No signup, no upsell, no trap.
A terminal is honest about what it is: a place you pass through to get somewhere. The split-flap board up top is the old airport arrivals sign — the thing that tells you your gate and then you're gone. That's the whole feeling. You are not stuck here.
It keeps nothing, talks to no one, and holds no one. The page makes zero network requests by design. Read the privacy page for exactly how.
A public service of TMF Advisory LLC, St. Louis, built alongside Race Terminal and 1Crisis — a small family of tools that try to make hard things legible and then get out of your way.