~ Early Web Links ~

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.

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.

MindScape is a mental health reference site that catalogs a wide range of psychological disorders, from personality and mood disorders to dissociative and psychotic conditions, with brief, accessible descriptions of each. Visitors will also find links to crisis helplines, therapist finders, and self-help tools, making it a practical starting point for anyone seeking to understand mental health conditions.

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.

Information Research is a long-running open-access academic journal covering information science, information retrieval, digital libraries, and information seeking behavior, with an archive spanning from 1996 through 2023. Researchers and practitioners will find dozens of peer-reviewed issues organized by volume, alongside author and subject indexes for navigating the extensive back catalog.

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.

Education Creations offers a curated collection of free educational links for teachers, homeschoolers, and parents, with categories covering gifted education resources, reading, phonics, math, and fun learning sites. The broader site also includes free worksheets and curriculum samples organized by grade level, making it a handy hub for K-6 classroom materials.

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.

Native Languages of the Americas is a non-profit resource dedicated to preserving over 800 indigenous languages of the Western Hemisphere, run by Laura Redish and Orrin Lewis. Visitors can explore an alphabetical master list of Native American languages, vocabulary lists, pronunciation guides, linguistic family groupings, tribal geographic indexes, and materials tailored for younger readers.

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.