~ Early Web Links ~

Chapter 7 of Chris Pine's 'Learn to Program', a beginner-friendly Ruby programming tutorial covering arrays and iterators with clear explanations and hands-on code examples. The guide is available in over ten language translations and walks complete novices through core programming concepts step by step.

Created by Sasha, this curated directory profiles dozens of influential thinkers, scientists, philosophers, and futurists, from Douglas Hofstadter and Stephen Hawking to Terence McKenna and Noam Chomsky, linking to their homepages, books, and related web resources. It began as a personal acknowledgment of intellectual influences and grew into a comprehensive guide to frontier human thought, complete with mailing lists and forums for discussion.

Michael Fowler, a University of Virginia physics professor, offers extensive lecture notes covering the history of science from Babylonian mathematics through Galileo, Newton, and Einstein's Special Relativity. The site links to multiple physics courses including a historically-framed 'Galileo and Einstein' course, Modern Physics, and introductory physics slide sets with interactive applets.

The original Flat Stanley Project, created by Dale Hubert in 1995, connects classrooms and homeschoolers worldwide through a beloved literacy activity where kids send a paper 'Flat Stanley' figure to schools, celebrities, and public figures who return it with a completed journal. With templates, curriculum resources, and a global exchange network spanning dozens of countries, this site has been fostering cultural connections and children's writing for 30 years.

Digital Research Tools (DiRT) is a wiki-based directory cataloging software and resources to help humanities and social science scholars conduct research more efficiently, covering everything from citation management to text analysis and data visualization. Organized by research activity, it offers both a browsable tool directory and in-depth reviews exploring practical applications for academic researchers.

Cyndi's List, maintained by Cyndi Ingle since 1996, is one of the web's most comprehensive genealogy link directories, organizing over 317,000 curated links across hundreds of categories including surnames, DNA projects, family associations, and newsletters. This particular section focuses on surname research, offering alphabetically sorted links to family-specific sites, social networking resources, surname mapping tools, and DNA studies for researchers tracing their family history.

Produced by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology at the University of South Florida, this guide walks beginners through the fundamentals of the Internet, from what the web is and how browsers work to navigation basics and productivity tools. It covers the history of the Internet from its ARPA origins through to modern use, making it a solid introductory reference for educators and students alike.

FOSSA Learning, created by Vic, is a learning design framework built around five core principles: free, open, small, simple, and accessible course creation. The site offers a methodology and starter course for teachers and instructional designers who want to build lightweight, inclusive learning materials without cost or proprietary formats.

An interactive reference chart organized like the periodic table of elements, cataloging over 100 visualization methods including pie charts, mind maps, Venn diagrams, timelines, and more exotic types like hyperbolic trees and flight plans. Hovering over each element reveals a tooltip definition, making it a handy at-a-glance guide for anyone working in data visualization, information design, or graphic facilitation.

Maintained by John H. Krantz at Hanover College, this American Psychological Society page compiles an extensive directory of teaching resources covering nearly every major subfield of psychology, from cognitive and forensic to evolutionary and health psychology. Instructors and students alike will find links to course materials, graduate program rankings, PowerPoint presentation databases, research methods guides, and interactive educational tools.