(This page is a part of the contradance pages maintained by Kiran Wagle)
A few Web pages of substance
The World Wide Web project was originally about information and the interconnections between the various bits of human knowledge. A great deal of attention is paid to Web pages that are full of flashy graphics and multimedia, but devoid of real content, so I thought I would mention a few pages that are among the best in providing content, not merely lists of links, and are maintained by individuals, not organizations. These pages demonstrate what the Web is really about. If you have other pages to recommend, let me know.
This page was one of the early inspirations for my dance page; its orginal text-only form was one of the best examples of hypertext I've found. Its current incarnation is graphic-heavy, troublesome to use and now an example of bad page design, but it's still the best of many pages devoted to one of the finer things on television. It's maintained by Steven Grimm <koreth@hyperion.com>.
Chuck Taggart <gumbo@webcom.com> has written and collected enormous amounts of information about that most foodish and musical of America's regions, New Orleans and Acadiana. Another early inspiration.
This collaborative effort by
is an enormous mine of information, much of it motivated by discussions on the Usenet newsgroup <rec.music.early>, which is also EARLYM-L, the Early Music Mailing List. A notable related page is Sarah Whitworth's page of Early Music by Women Composers.
This small but elegant electronic museum is maintained by Jeff Howe <howedy@aol.com> and Wesley Alan Wright <wesley.wright@uvm.edu>.
Last updated June 4, 1996
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