~ Early Web Links ~

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.

InternetSlang.com is a comprehensive dictionary of internet slang, acronyms, and abbreviations drawn from chat rooms, SMS, Twitter, blogs, and online forums, browsable by letter or searchable by term. Running since 2002, it covers thousands of entries and even allows users to submit new acronyms, making it a living reference for the ever-evolving language of the web.

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.

Dopetalk is a harm reduction forum and community for drug users, offering information, peer support, and links to resources like Erowid, DanceSafe, and PsychonautWiki. Founded in December 2014, it emphasizes safe use practices and strictly prohibits solicitation or dealing, positioning itself as an educational and supportive space rather than a marketplace.

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.

Harley Hahn's Internet Yellow Pages is a classic web directory that organizes internet resources by topic, and this particular page covers genealogy-related sites and links. A well-known resource from the early web era, it serves as a curated guide for users seeking genealogy research tools and communities online.

Created by Mike Shor, Game Theory .net is a comprehensive hub for learning and teaching strategic decision-making, offering lecture notes, textbooks, a terminology dictionary, interactive demonstrations, and real-world business applications. It serves a wide audience from students and educators to professionals and math enthusiasts, making game theory concepts accessible across multiple levels of expertise.

A comprehensive reference page from BOWest covering the full range of electrical circuit theorems, including Ohm's Law, Kirchhoff's Laws, Thevenin's and Norton's Theorems, Millman's Theorem, and Star-Delta transformations. Each theorem is presented with clear notation, formulas, and derivations, making it a handy technical reference for students and engineers alike.

Greg McVerry is a digitally networked scholar based in East Haddam, CT, whose site INTERTEXTrEVOLUTION explores the intersections of literacy, digital learning, and making through articles, blog posts, poetry, and podcasts. Organized around the motto 'Make. Hack. Play. Learn.', the site reflects his academic and creative philosophy that learning is interest-driven, production-based, and deeply tied to digital tools and networked communities.

Erowid is a comprehensive non-profit harm-reduction and educational resource documenting the complex relationship between humans and psychoactive substances, covering everything from cannabis and LSD to pharmaceuticals and research chemicals. With over 60,000 pages of content spanning chemistry, law, personal experiences, spirituality, and culture, it stands as one of the most exhaustive references on psychoactives ever assembled on the web.