~ Early Web Links ~

The Vocational Information Center's Electronics Career Guide is a comprehensive reference hub listing dozens of electronics-related job titles, from Avionics Technician to Broadcast Engineer, with links to salary data, skill requirements, and training pathways. With over 360 links covering career descriptions, certification resources, tutorials, and industry schools, it serves as a thorough one-stop guide for anyone exploring a career in the electronics field.

ESL MiniConference Online is a long-running newsletter and community hub for English as a Second Language teachers, featuring reader letters, profiles, and news from TESOL professionals around the world. Founded and edited by Dr. Robert Bruce Scott, the site archives correspondence and announcements spanning over a decade, offering a fascinating window into the global ESL teaching community.

Dr. Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe's comprehensive art history reference hub compiles hundreds of links to research resources, image databases, online journals, bibliographies, and visual resources covering art from prehistoric times through contemporary works worldwide. With a detailed site index spanning every major period and region of art history, it serves as an essential starting point for students and scholars doing serious art historical research.

Cyndi's List, maintained by Cyndi Ingle since 1996, is one of the web's most comprehensive genealogy link directories, organizing over 317,000 curated links across hundreds of categories including surnames, DNA projects, family associations, and newsletters. This particular section focuses on surname research, offering alphabetically sorted links to family-specific sites, social networking resources, surname mapping tools, and DNA studies for researchers tracing their family history.

David R. Gagnon, a Boston University biostatistics professor, compiled this reference page of curated web links spanning search engines, online dictionaries, e-book repositories, translation tools, and general internet utilities. A classic early-web link collection, it serves as a personal portal to resources like Project Gutenberg, Bartlett's Quotations, and various web reference tools.

The DMF 2023 (Dictionnaire du Moyen Français) is a scholarly lexicographic database covering medieval and middle French vocabulary with lemmatization tools for researchers and linguists. Hosted by ATILF (Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française), it serves as an authoritative reference for anyone studying the French language from the 9th to the 15th centuries.

A curated link collection exploring words from other languages that have no direct English equivalent, covering concepts from German, French, Spanish, and more. Part of the ds106 open course community, it invites visitors to illustrate these untranslatable words using images as a creative challenge.

A bare-bones page presenting a dictionary entry for the word 'example,' drawn from the Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48, with multiple historical definitions and citations. The only personal touch is a brief sample usage listing favorite actresses, suggesting this is little more than a placeholder or test page hosted on HostGator.

Robert T. Carroll's Skeptic's Dictionary is a landmark reference site featuring 785 alphabetized entries covering strange beliefs, logical fallacies, cognitive biases, pseudoscience, paranormal claims, and dangerous delusions. Established in 1994 and continuously updated for over two decades, it offers definitions, arguments, reader comments, essays, and book reviews making it one of the most comprehensive skeptical inquiry resources on the web.

A handy interactive tool by MrInitialMan that lets users compare the heights of up to ten figures side by side, supporting both imperial and metric measurements. Artists and writers will appreciate the size code feature, which saves and restores comparison configurations via a shareable URL.