~ Early Web Links ~

Jennie's personal microblog captures candid slices of her life, including a surprise ADHD diagnosis referral, burnout, and a nostalgic mission to revive old-school block blinkies. The site blends personal reflection with retro web aesthetics, making it a charming and honest corner of the modern indie web.

FitnessLinkPros is a curated web directory cataloging health and fitness resources across categories including bodybuilding, powerlifting, fat loss, nutrition, boxing, martial arts, and sports. Visitors can browse organized link collections, sign up for a free fitness tips newsletter, and submit their own fitness articles to the community.

Joe's tilde.town personal page centers on affirmations of self-love, spiritual wellness, and positive manifestation, written in an introspective and meditative style. Short but sincere, it reflects a philosophy of gratitude and personal growth shared with visitors of the small-web community.

A mirror of the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine, founded by the late herbalist Michael Moore, this site is a massive archive of medicinal plant knowledge including photographs, illustrations, materia medica, herb manuals, folios, and digitized historical texts like the complete US Dispensatory 20th Edition. Visitors will find an extraordinary depth of botanical reference material spanning decades of Moore's teaching, with genus-indexed plant photos, video clips, color illustrations, and extensive lecture notes on clinical and constitutional herbalism.

Queering Herbalism is a blog by a queer person of color exploring herbalism, plant medicine, and healing through a justice-centered lens. It features posts about the BIPOC Herbal Freedom School and Communiversity, a scholarship-supported program helping chronically ill and low-income medicine makers of color reclaim indigenous healing traditions.

Y2kinsomniac's personal site opens with a content warning splash page flagging discussions of mental and physical health, suicidal ideation, self-harm, and medical topics. The high-contrast, bright-color aesthetic sets the tone for what promises to be an honest and personal exploration of health struggles.

Lee Perry is a Burnley-based enthusiast who documents his wide-ranging active lifestyle including running, virtual cycling on a Wattbike, rock climbing, mountaineering, and motorhome adventures across the UK and beyond. The site functions as a digital garden with a blog, microblog, fitness training log, retrogaming notes, and coding projects, making it a rich personal hub for an impressively varied set of pursuits.

Rem's Planet is the creative corner of 'rem' (they/he), a neocities site centered on personal diary entries about mental health alongside illustrations and webshrines. The site has a warm, introspective tone with sections on typology, cell biology, rhythm games, and ARGs, making it a thoughtful and eclectic personal space.

Matt's Big Fat Arse is a candid personal health blog where Matt documents his ongoing journey managing chronic pain, fatigue, mental health, and weight. The site tracks pain levels, stiffness, and mood over time with dedicated stats pages, making it a remarkably transparent and detailed account of living with chronic illness.

The North American Institute of Medical Herbalism runs this comprehensive resource hub for herbalism students and practitioners, offering annotated links spanning materia medica, ethnobotany, pharmacology, pathology, and clinical nutrition. It also features audio courses, a free e-journal archive, and certification programs in medical herbalism, making it a serious educational destination for anyone studying plant-based medicine.