"Anonymous remailers let you send e-mail with the total assurance that you and only you will know who sent it."
Still online? None of the listed servers appear to be online. An archived snapshot of penet.fi from 1996 announced that anon.penet.fi anonymous forwarding services were coming to an end.
Anything like them? Yes, and in fact, there are three levels of anonymous remailers, as described by Wikipedia.
Archie Servers
"The Net is a huge place and nobody's gonna hold your hand as you travel through it. Luckily, even if no human can help you find things, there's a friendly Net know-it-all named Archie who can."
Today, you'd be forgiven for asking "you mean, like Google?" It feels like Google has been online since the beginning of The Net, but it started in 1997 at Stanford, as captured by the Internet Archive. But a decade earlier, Archie, the first internet search engine was sleuthing through McGill University School of Computer Science's FTP files.
From there, it sounds like Archie changed from a single system searcher, to a global network of interconnected regional search engines. Most Archies are long-gone, replaced by major search engines with increased abilities to search farther and faster, but this Polish Archie is still online, with the same graphic user interface since 1997, very similar looking to Rutgers' Archie (archived).
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