~ Early Web Links ~

No Web Without Women is an educational showcase highlighting the pivotal contributions of women in computer science and technology, featuring profiles of pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Hedy Lamarr, and Grace Hopper with historical images and clear explanations of each innovation. The site makes a compelling case for how foundational technologies like algorithms, wireless transmission, and compilers owe their existence to overlooked female inventors and scientists.

A specialized web tool by Ben Bullock that lets users draw kanji characters by hand with a mouse and have them automatically recognized, making it invaluable for looking up unfamiliar Japanese characters. The site also offers multiple lookup methods including multiradical, four-corner, and SKIP codes, with support for over a dozen interface languages.

Maintained by retired school librarian Linda Bertland, this long-running directory compiles hundreds of curated links covering every aspect of school librarianship, from information skills lesson plans and collection development to technology, cataloging, and professional development. It serves as a comprehensive go-to reference for working school librarians seeking resources on everything from fake news instruction to makerspace planning.

The ASL Typesetting Office provides LaTeX and TeX style files for authors submitting to publications of the Association for Symbolic Logic, including the Journal of Symbolic Logic and the Bulletin of Symbolic Logic. Maintained by Reinhard Kahle, the site offers document classes, BibTeX stylefiles, proof packages, and guides to help researchers format their work to ASL's exact typesetting standards.

NNDB is a massive biographical intelligence aggregator with over 40,000 profiles documenting notable people, both living and dead, along with their connections to one another. Its standout feature, the NNDB Mapper, lets users visually explore relationships between people through family ties, corporate boards, political alliances, and more.

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.

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.

R. Chris Fraley, a psychologist at the University of Illinois, presents a thorough overview of adult attachment theory and research, tracing its origins from John Bowlby's work through modern empirical findings on intimate relationships. Visitors can also take online quizzes to assess their own attachment styles and explore links to self-report measures like the ECR-R and ECR-RS.

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.

Created by Sasha, this curated directory profiles dozens of influential thinkers, scientists, philosophers, and futurists, from Douglas Hofstadter and Stephen Hawking to Terence McKenna and Noam Chomsky, linking to their homepages, books, and related web resources. It began as a personal acknowledgment of intellectual influences and grew into a comprehensive guide to frontier human thought, complete with mailing lists and forums for discussion.