~ Early Web Links ~

Jon Shemitz built this sprawling, neutral homeschooling resource over more than a decade, compiling over 140 pages of non-commercial information without pushing any particular methodology or ideology. Homeschooling parents will find extensive guides, vendor listings, file downloads, and discussion links covering virtually every aspect of educating children at home.

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.

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.

Karl M. Bunday's Learn in Freedom site has been a comprehensive hub for homeschooling and education reform resources for over seventeen years, linking to more than 1,000 external sites across forty-plus pages. Visitors can explore topics ranging from socialization research and language development to college admissions for homeschoolers and self-directed learning philosophy.

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 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.

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.

The Punctuation Guide is a comprehensive reference covering every major punctuation mark, from periods and commas to em dashes and angle brackets, with guidance on British versus American style differences. Precise and well-organized, it serves as a go-to resource for writers, editors, and students who need clear rules on punctuation usage.