~ Early Web Links ~

A subdomain of the legendary Textfiles.com, this archive hosts over 1,400 digitized digest files spanning decades of early internet culture, including the Computer Privacy Digest, Computer Underground Digest, and Telecommunications Digest. Researchers and digital historians will find an invaluable primary source collection documenting hacker culture, privacy debates, and telecom policy from the 1980s through the late 1990s.

The Jargon File is the legendary online lexicon of hacker slang, culture, and folklore, maintained by Eric S. Raymond (ESR) and covering everything from technical terminology to the sociology of hacker life. Version 4.4.7 includes a full glossary, essays on hacker writing and speech styles, appendices on hacker folklore, and a detailed portrait of hacker culture that has made this one of the most cited references in computing history.

WikiCreole is the documentation hub for Creole 1.0, a standardized common wiki markup language intended to bring consistency across different wiki platforms. With 613 pages covering the full specification, test cases, implementation guides, converters, and good practices, it serves as the definitive reference for developers and wiki enthusiasts looking to adopt or understand the Creole standard.

Bekanar's cozy corner of the web presents itself as a knowledge-sharing wiki covering topics the creator finds interesting. The decorative buttons and stamps prominently feature One Piece characters like Portgas D. Ace, Buggy the Clown, and Roronoa Zoro, giving the site a strong anime flavor alongside activist and fandom flair.

Unbubble.eu was a German-language privacy-focused meta search engine that closed in March 2019, and this archived page now serves as a curated guide to Google alternatives including Metager, Qwant, DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, and specialty search tools. Visitors can find categorized listings of independent search engines, children's search tools, and specialized search services, making it a useful reference for anyone seeking to escape the Google/Bing duopoly.

Robotstxt.org is the definitive reference for understanding web robots, crawlers, and spiders, covering everything from how to write a robots.txt file to blocking unwanted bots from your site. It includes a robots database, a robots.txt syntax checker, an IP lookup tool, and a comprehensive FAQ making it an essential stop for webmasters and developers.

The Web Robots Pages hosts a comprehensive database of web crawler and robot software implementations, listing hundreds of bots submitted by their owners or discovered by webmasters. A reference hub for the robots.txt standard, it also offers tools like a robots.txt checker, IP lookup, and documentation on META tags for controlling web crawlers.

Xah Lee's Unicode Search is a comprehensive reference tool for finding Unicode characters, emojis, and symbols by name, ID, or hex code, covering everything from math symbols to ancient scripts like Cuneiform and Linear B. Visitors can browse an extensive categorized index spanning emojis, currencies, IPA characters, box art, and dozens of world writing systems, making it an invaluable bookmark for developers and writers alike.

A preserved page from the DMOZ Open Directory Project explaining the structure and internationalization of the World category, which supported 90 languages and allowed volunteer editors to build out non-English directory sections. It provides editor guidance, FAQ links, and details on how subcategories were organized across languages for one of the web's most ambitious human-curated link directories.

The official manual for Harlowe 3.3.8, the story format used with Twine 2 for creating interactive fiction, covering every macro, markup syntax, and coding feature in exhaustive detail. With hundreds of documented commands, changers, and variables organized across thousands of links, this reference is an indispensable guide for anyone building Twine-based games or stories.