~ Early Web Links ~

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.

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.

World History Matters is a portal created by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, curating peer-reviewed educational websites covering world and global history topics from the French Revolution to the Gulag to Maritime Asia. Teachers, scholars, and students will find primary sources, teaching modules, online exhibits, and curriculum resources spanning centuries and continents.

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.

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.

Pin-Up Goddess is a fanlisting dedicated to Bettie Page, the iconic 1950s pin-up model celebrated for her trademark bangs and timeless allure. Owned by Mikh and listed through The Fanlistings Network, it invites fellow fans to join and show their appreciation for the legendary figure.

The Digital Library on American Slavery, hosted at UNC Greensboro, is a centralized scholarly database compiling tens of thousands of primary source documents related to enslavement in the American South, including bills of sale, runaway slave notices, legislative petitions, and trans-Atlantic slave trade records. With over 200,000 named individuals searchable by name, keyword, and state, it serves as an indispensable research tool for historians, genealogists, and anyone studying the history of American slavery.

Peter Higginbotham's exhaustive reference site chronicles the history of the British workhouse system, covering Poor Laws from 1601 through the end of the workhouse era with detailed entries on hundreds of individual Poor Law Unions across England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Visitors will find full texts of historic legislation, location guides, photographs, records of workhouse life, and deeply researched articles on topics ranging from bastardy laws to oakum picking.

Restaurants in Peace is a memorial platform dedicated to closed and defunct restaurants, inviting visitors to share and relive memories of beloved eateries that no longer exist. With sections organized by city and a submission form for personal stories, it serves as a nostalgic community archive for food lovers mourning their favorite lost dining spots.

Oldradio.com, maintained by Barry Mishkind 'The Eclectic Engineer,' is a comprehensive broadcast archive dedicated to the history of radio, drawing on FCC files, university sources, and historical publications to separate fact from industry myth. Visitors can explore a deep table of contents, mailing lists for professional broadcasters, and a companion resource called the Broadcasters' Desktop Reference.