~ Early Web Links ~

A massive database of over 20,000 names from cultures and languages spanning the entire globe, organized by country, language, and meaning with detailed etymologies included. Visitors can browse everything from Aztec and Anglo-Saxon to Vietnamese and Yiddish names, plus themed categories like Dragon Names, Shadow Names, and Warrior Names for creative use in stories, games, and pet naming.

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.

Peevish.co.uk hosts a sprawling dictionary of British slang and colloquialisms, cataloguing over 7000 informal expressions from across the UK with regional annotations and etymological context. Features include an A-Z browseable index, articles on Cockney rhyming slang and other linguistic topics, a bibliography, and monthly additions of newly documented slang terms.

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.

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.

AIspotting is a curated directory of guides and tools for identifying AI-generated content across visual art, writing, and other media, helping people protect themselves from AI fraud and misinformation. It also collects resources for artists to protect their work from being used in AI training, along with recommendations for AI-free creative platforms.

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.

Georgia Tech professor Amy Bruckman's academic papers archive covers her research on online communities, constructionist learning, MUDs, virtual worlds, and identity in cyberspace. Papers span topics from gender-swapping on the internet to educational uses of text-based virtual reality environments like MOOSE Crossing, making it a rich snapshot of early internet social research.

Dr. Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe's comprehensive art history reference hub compiles hundreds of links to research resources, image databases, online journals, bibliographies, and visual resources covering art from prehistoric times through contemporary works worldwide. With a detailed site index spanning every major period and region of art history, it serves as an essential starting point for students and scholars doing serious art historical research.

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.