~ Early Web Links ~

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.

The Online Books Page, edited by John Mark Ockerbloom and hosted by the University of Pennsylvania, catalogs over 3 million free books available on the web, searchable by author, title, subject, and serial. Notable features include a Celebration of Women Writers, a Read Banned Books section, and prize winners available online, making it an essential reference for anyone seeking freely accessible literature.

The DMF 2023 (Dictionnaire du Moyen Français) is a scholarly lexicographic database covering medieval and middle French vocabulary with lemmatization tools for researchers and linguists. Hosted by ATILF (Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française), it serves as an authoritative reference for anyone studying the French language from the 9th to the 15th centuries.

Cybrary Man is a massive curated directory of over 20,000 educational web links personally selected by veteran educator Jerry, organized for teachers, students, parents, and administrators. The site spans every subject area and grade level from Pre-K through higher education, making it an extraordinarily comprehensive portal for anyone involved in learning or teaching.

BOWest Pty Ltd hosts a comprehensive technical reference library covering electrical engineering topics including circuit theorems, formulae, and electrical machines. Organized as a text-based index spanning Ohm's Law through Thevenin's Theorem and three-phase power, it is designed for both students and practicing engineers who want to draw their own diagrams while reading through the material.

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.

Cyndi's List, maintained by Cyndi Ingle since 1996, is one of the web's most comprehensive genealogy link directories, organizing over 317,000 curated links across hundreds of categories including surnames, DNA projects, family associations, and newsletters. This particular section focuses on surname research, offering alphabetically sorted links to family-specific sites, social networking resources, surname mapping tools, and DNA studies for researchers tracing their family history.

An interactive reference chart organized like the periodic table of elements, cataloging over 100 visualization methods including pie charts, mind maps, Venn diagrams, timelines, and more exotic types like hyperbolic trees and flight plans. Hovering over each element reveals a tooltip definition, making it a handy at-a-glance guide for anyone working in data visualization, information design, or graphic facilitation.