~ Early Web Links ~

Tipi's Retreat is a sprawling personal site by a Montana-based couple covering an eclectic mix of content including WWII memoirs, wildlife photography, crafts, and tributes to missing-in-action soldiers. The site won a Site Fights Championship and features sections on the Forgotten Battalion, WWII reunions, nature galleries, quilts, and even a pets section, making it a rich time capsule of late-1990s personal web culture.

Ben Discoe's personal homepage from the late 1990s, preserved largely unchanged, covers an eclectic range of topics including virtual terrain, electric vehicles, travel photography from Kyoto to Cuba, genealogy, Burning Man experiences, and personal rants. A genuine time capsule of the personal web era, with dozens of interlinked pages spanning technology projects, life stories, and offbeat cultural commentary.

Invisible5 documents a road trip audio tour along Interstate 5, with this stop focusing on the Los Angeles River and the environmental advocacy work of FoLAR (Friends of the Los Angeles River). Visitors can listen to MP3 recordings, view LANDSAT maps, and read about water pollution, habitat destruction, and community restoration efforts along one of the most heavily concrete-channelized urban rivers in the world.

Mark Stoneman is a PhD historian, editor, and German-to-English translator whose blog covers military history, German history, and pointed political commentary rooted in deep historical perspective. Posts range from reflections on WWI and WWII scholarship to sharp critiques of contemporary U.S. politics, all filtered through the lens of a working academic historian.

Jay Hoffmann's ongoing project documenting the history of the World Wide Web through a detailed, date-anchored timeline of key events, launches, and milestones. The site features a growing archive of entries covering everything from the birth of JSON to the launch of NYTimes.com, making it an invaluable reference for anyone curious about how the web evolved.

Gene Slover's US Navy Pages is a comprehensive archive dedicated to preserving US naval history, covering battleships, aircraft carriers, destroyers, submarines, and ordnance documents including rare technical manuals and ordnance pamphlets. Maintained in honor of the late Gene Slover, the site features sailors' stories, Medal of Honor tributes, historical footage, and detailed gunnery range tables spanning decades of American naval warfare.

A comprehensive online repository dedicated to the medieval Bestiary, the illustrated Book of Beasts that shaped how people in the Middle Ages understood animals, mythology, and symbolism. Visitors can explore individual beasts, original manuscripts, a digital text library, scholarly articles, and an encyclopedia covering animals in medieval culture.

Created by graduate student Adam Lee Cilli at Pitt-Greensburg, this site makes previously inaccessible oral history recordings of Black migrants to Pittsburgh available to the public for the first time. It serves as a central hub covering the Great Migration from 1915 to 1930, featuring interviews, letters, and primary sources that illuminate the experiences of African Americans who relocated from the rural South to Pittsburgh's industrial economy.

An archived preservation of the official Dole/Kemp 1996 presidential campaign website, presented for educational purposes by 4President.org. This historical snapshot captures the Republican ticket's online presence from the 1996 election, alongside a link to the archived Clinton/Gore 96 site for comparison.

Jos Kingston's detailed historical study of life in Elizabethan-era Norton, Sheffield, covers occupation, social class, poverty, and parish records spanning 1560 to 1650. Downloadable baptism, marriage, and burial records make this a valuable resource for family historians and local historians researching the period.