~ Early Web Links ~

Earth Station Nine is a massive web compendium boasting over 46,000 resources organized across 790 categories and 1,228 pages, drawing from the so-called "invisible web" to surface hard-to-find reference material. Covering everything from genealogy and military history to occult phenomena, health, antiques, and international search engines, it functions as a sprawling research hub for curious minds.

A sprawling personal link directory by rlcolem covering dozens of categories including health, government, entertainment, news, music, and museums. Built in classic late-90s tripod style, it curates hundreds of external links organized into neat topic sections, serving as a one-stop gateway to the early web.

Curated by Jason Scott of Textfiles.com fame, this archive collects and preserves a wide variety of PDF documents spanning academics, vintage zines, legal threats, technical manuals, pamphlets, and printable paper models. It serves as a fascinating digital library of internet ephemera, offering everything from classic books to fan magazines and digitized historical catalogs.

Secret Onions is a community-maintained Tor hidden service link directory focused on legitimate content, tools, and knowledge rather than scammy dark web marketplaces. Curated with an anti-surveillance, pro-privacy philosophy, it organizes onion links into categories like forums, email services, file hosting, software, and search engines while actively filtering out scam and marketplace sites.

Granite Island Group, founded in 1987 near Boston, is a comprehensive resource on Technical Surveillance Counter Measures (TSCM), bug sweeps, wiretap detection, and counterintelligence, claiming to be the largest and most complete site of its kind online. Visitors can explore an extensive TSCM library covering topics like TEMPEST, spread spectrum, RF analysis, tracking device detection, and surveillance technology, alongside information about professional sweep services and equipment.

Created and maintained by Marcus P. Zillman, this is a curated meta-directory that organizes and links to other directories across the web, serving as a one-stop resource for finding organized collections of links on virtually any topic. A classic old-web reference tool for researchers and web explorers who want to navigate the internet through structured, human-curated indexes.

Published by the Software Freedom Law Center, this comprehensive legal primer covers copyright, licensing, trademarks, and organizational issues specifically for free and open source software projects. Written by prominent FOSS legal experts including Eben Moglen and Bradley Kuhn, it walks developers through choosing licenses like the GPL, handling copyright enforcement, and structuring their organizations.

Ichipedia is a growing wiki-style reference site covering topics like the small-net, small-tech tools, the modern web, and the Gemini protocol. It invites contributors and aims to become a curated knowledge base for niche corners of internet culture and alternative technology.

Jason Scott's web.textfiles.com is a sprawling archive of historical text files covering hacking, phreaking, e-zines, humor, virus research, and underground computing culture from the BBS era and beyond. It's an essential digital preservation project cataloging thousands of documents that capture the raw, unfiltered voice of early internet and hacker subcultures.