~ Early Web Links ~

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.

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.

Lexundria presents the complete text of Flavius Josephus's 'Antiquities of the Jews' in William Whiston's English translation, broken into navigable sections for easy reading and cross-referencing. This digitized classical text covers ancient Jewish history from creation through the first century CE, making it an invaluable scholarly resource for students and researchers of ancient history and biblical studies.

A curated Oxford University LibGuide collecting free online resources for local history research, compiled by the Bodleian Libraries' continuing education department. Researchers will find links to British History Online, the Victoria County History, county record societies, historic environment databases, and open-access journal repositories all in one place.

A library research guide from Centralia College's Kirk Library covering everything about zines, from their self-published origins to major archives like the Library of Congress Zine Web Archive and the Queer Zine Archive Project. Visitors will find curated links to zine distros, digital collections, climate justice zines, and resources on the Dada movement, making it a rich starting point for researchers and zine enthusiasts alike.

Behind the Name is a comprehensive encyclopedia of first names from around the world, covering etymology, history, and cultural origins for thousands of given names across dozens of languages and traditions. Visitors can browse by letter or origin, check name popularity by country, explore namesakes, and even use tools like a random name generator and baby name advisor.

A handy interactive tool by MrInitialMan that lets users compare the heights of up to ten figures side by side, supporting both imperial and metric measurements. Artists and writers will appreciate the size code feature, which saves and restores comparison configurations via a shareable URL.

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.