~ Early Web Links ~

An online database maintained by Snyder & Short documenting the camouflage paint schemes used on US Navy warships during World War II, including dazzle patterns, haze gray, and ocean gray. Researchers, historians, and scale modelers will find detailed records organized by ship class, with new entries like the Haskell class APAs added regularly.

The Davistown Museum in Liberty, Maine is dedicated to preserving and interpreting the hand tools of New England's maritime and early industrial culture, with two physical locations and an extensive online presence. Visitors can explore annotated tool inventories, photo tours, unpublished essays, museum publications, bibliographies, and a Maine Artists Guild Gallery showcasing contemporary Maine art.

The Theoi Project is an exhaustive reference guide to Greek mythology created by Aaron J. Atsma, covering over 1,500 pages of gods, spirits, heroes, and mythical creatures sourced from classical literature and art. Visitors can explore detailed entries on every major deity and monster, browse an A-Z encyclopedia, view over 1,200 images from ancient vase paintings and mosaics, and read original classical texts.

The historic home of the world's first website, hosted at CERN where Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. Visitors can browse the original first website, use a line-mode browser simulator to experience early web browsing, and learn about the web's origins at the physics laboratory where it all began.

Kieran Healy's mid-1990s personal homepage from his time as a sociology graduate student at Princeton University, brimming with early-web charm including bus directions from Cork, Ireland, link collections to Alta Vista and Lycos, and a mix of academic and personal interests. A genuine time capsule of 1995-1996 web culture, complete with hit counters, Netscape optimization notices, and an Irish expat's perspective on life in New Jersey.

Karen Larsdatter's sprawling reference site catalogs hundreds of illustrated linkpages covering Middle Ages and Renaissance material culture, from medieval animals and trades to clothing, food, and household objects. The sitemap alone reveals astonishing depth, with curated collections spanning everything from bonnacons and oliphants to SCA-relevant crafts and cross-stitch patterns.

A scholarly reference on Anglo-Norman personal names from medieval England, tracing naming trends from the Norman Conquest through the fourteenth century with detailed lists of male and female names. Written by Susan Carroll-Clark, this page challenges the assumption that medieval naming was limited, offering rich historical context alongside Gothic and Carolingian name tables.

Yoyo's personal Neocities homepage blends self-expression with a strong pro-Palestinian political voice, featuring a blog, manifesto, book recommendations, and a quirky curse word collection. The site has a distinctly old-web handcrafted feel with webrings, guestbook, and collectible buttons alongside its heartfelt personal content.

History Matters is a comprehensive gateway for teaching and learning U.S. history, built by George Mason University and CUNY's American Social History Project. It offers over 800 primary source documents, annotated website reviews, syllabi, teaching strategies, and evidence-analysis guides aimed at high school and college educators and students.

A transcription of the 1864 Civil War diary of Shedrick Jackson, a Black barber from Middleport, New York who served in the 140th NY regiment, donated to the Niagara County NYGenWeb project by a descendant's relative. The diary offers a rare day-by-day firsthand account of camp life throughout the year 1864, concluding with a poem written by Jackson himself.