~ Early Web Links ~

Consumer World is a comprehensive directory of over 2000 links covering everything a savvy shopper or consumer needs, from product reviews and price comparisons to government agencies, scam alerts, and legal rights. First launched in 1995, it covers automotive buying guides, credit and banking resources, travel deals, and consumer complaint resources all in one place.

Hosted by Yale Law School's Lillian Goldman Law Library, the Avalon Project is a massive digital archive of primary source documents spanning law, history, and diplomacy from ancient times through the 21st century. Researchers and history enthusiasts will find everything from ancient texts to the Nuremberg Tribunal records, organized chronologically and by collection.

AIspotting is a curated directory of guides and tools for identifying AI-generated content across visual art, writing, and other media, helping people protect themselves from AI fraud and misinformation. It also collects resources for artists to protect their work from being used in AI training, along with recommendations for AI-free creative platforms.

The Computational Epistemology Laboratory at the University of Waterloo, led by Professor Paul Thagard, serves as a research hub for cognitive science and philosophy of mind. Visitors can access downloadable software tools like COHERE, ECHO, and DIVA written in LISP and Java, alongside curated bibliographies and a glossary for cognitive science research.

The Little Directory of Calm curates links to websites that meet strict requirements: no ads, no tracking, no pop-ups, and no auto-playing media, making it a peaceful alternative to the noisy modern web. Spanning dozens of categories from creative writing and digital art to web development and open science, it serves as a thoughtfully filtered gateway to the quieter corners of the internet.

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.

The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts, created by Eric Lease Morgan in 1994, is a curated collection of public domain and open access documents focused on American and English literature and Western philosophy, designed to support a liberal arts education. Visitors can browse thousands of texts by author, title, or tag, with links to repositories like Project Gutenberg, HathiTrust, and the Internet Archive.

A searchable glossary of Sanskrit terms drawn specifically from Sri Aurobindo's works and the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library, making it a specialized reference for students of Integral Yoga philosophy. The indexed entries span hundreds of Sanskrit terms with alphabetical navigation sections and references to scriptural texts, offering a focused scholarly tool for readers of Aurobindo's writings.

href.cool is a curated link directory that organizes the web into evocative categories like Bodies, Crimes, Supernatural, and Tapes, billing itself as a collector of 'the final heartbeats of our beloved www.' Its poetic framing and eclectic taxonomy make it a genuinely distinctive way to discover unusual, forgotten, or fascinating corners of the internet.

Encyclopedia Mythica is one of the oldest and most comprehensive online references for mythology, folklore, and religion, boasting over 11,420 articles spanning Greek, Norse, Roman, Maori, Arthurian, and dozens of other traditions. Running since 1995, it offers a searchable database with daily deity and feast day features, making it an invaluable scholarly and casual resource for anyone exploring world mythologies.