Although mostly archived links, the links to interactive websites ($) are live.
This website serves a similar function of highlighting the unordinary on the Internet (currently a rare concept in this age of targeted offerings based upon "click" profiling), as did the now defunct "Yahoo Picks". All listings hold to the concept of being worthy of taking some of your time to visit. The selection of websites linked here are for edification, and were not intended to forward any particular agenda or viewpoint. Sorting of the links was both crude and arbitrary, and the sorting itself was only to help make finding links easier.
Almost every link points to an archival Wayback Machine page snapshot from the website URL of interest (which in the case of blogs, often holds all of the content we thought interesting). Be aware that the Wayback Machine only archives individual web pages, not entire web sites. Often not all accompanying images on the webpage are archived either, especially if the website is dynamic in its data presentation. However as content is often moved about within a website URL, we felt it useful to point to an archived snapshot, so that you knew what interesting content was being highlighted before you visited the website to view the content live.
WARNING:
As all of the links are to EXTERNAL web pages, we have no control over the websites continued accessibility, content truthfulness, your surfing privacy, or whether the website harbors malicious code. Discretion is advised, as links may include content that some viewers might consider inappropriate. Although Wayback Machine links are static and relatively anonymous, the status of linked Interactive Websites [$] is uncertain. If the Wayback Machine is offline, you can access the referenced website directly (assuming its URL is still valid, as many historic addresses have recently been aquired by false-flag exploiters) by extracting and visiting the websites URL address that is embedded as the latter half of the linked Wayback Machines URL. In addition, you can try to seek an alternative address to the resource (or find content missing from the snapshot) by using a search engine$.
Note: Human Curated Repositories, like the Librarians that maintain them, are rapidly fading away. Support them while you can.
COMMENT:
We have noted what we consider a disturbing trend on the English language Web over the last decade. Where there were once numerous Internet sites dedicated to providing free information in the form of Virtual Museums or personally pursued research (including observations made by collectors and hobbyists), a rising profit making mindset has been rapidly purging them away. Even worse, the virtual galleries formerly offered by many museums, and the public documents posted on university and government web sites, have been deleted; and their core web site layouts have even been purposely changed so as to look and function more like commercial storefronts!
This is not to say that there is a lack of "educational" material for "school children" available, but these web sites are carefully sanitized so as to only present information that is approved by Federal and State regulators, and by Local school boards. Anything of an Alternative, or heaven forbid Controversial, nature is conspicuously absent (and in a growing number of cases, outright banned by policy). Certainly there are still independently produced blogs and news articles, but recently they have tended to be merely plagiarisms of inaccurate, or even outright fictional, source material. We fear that this is leading to a generation who will soon have great difficulty pursuing their own personal learning paths, who will misunderstand or be oblivious of historical contexts, and who may become so polarized as to actually believe that there is only one acceptable viewpoint regarding many subjects.
If you are uncomfortable with these changes or even censorship in general, we encourage you to produce a website yourself, or at least assist those reference websites still online to keep operating. Information of an obscure nature, gleaned from an antique source, or encased in an older storage format, still has human relevance. The content you rescue will make a difference in someones life! Erasure by thoughtless webmasters based upon posting age is devistating. Were the efforts of those posters truly that unworthy as to be destroyed for all time? Do not assume tools such as the Wayback Machine will come to the rescue, as it does not actively seek websites. By default it will not even archive linked web pages or embedded documents/media unless explicitly commanded (so if you encounter such missing data, please help by explicitly saving the missing picture/links address into the Wayback Machine). Be aware that the Wayback Machine is incapable of saving dynamic content, or content encased in
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