My Favourite Links
A classic links page: a map of this site, a little web ring, and a handful of real, reputable sites if you want to read more about Mount Tai, Tai’an, or the early web this page is styled after.
Site Map
- Home — welcome page and quick intro
- Mount Tai 泰山 — the mountain itself
- Food — jianbing, tofu, and the 泰山三美
- My Life — Tai’an compared with Canberra
- Photos — the (still-empty) photo wall
- Links — this page
The Tai’an Web Ring
Every page on this site is also part of a small web ring: a chain of “Prev” and “Next” links in the footer that lets you click all the way around the site and end up back where you started. It is a nod to the old-school web rings that linked independent personal home pages together, except here it just rings around my own six pages.
Good Places to Read More
- UNESCO World Heritage Centre: Mount Taishan — the official UNESCO listing and justification for Mount Tai’s World Heritage status.
- Encyclopaedia Britannica: Mount Tai — a solid overview of the mountain’s geography and history.
- Wikipedia: Tai’an — background on my hometown as a prefecture-level city.
- Wikipedia: GeoCities — the history of the web-hosting service whose look this whole page is imitating.
Cool Sites NEW!
A few of the sites that defined the late-1990s web, for anyone who wants a taste of what browsing looked like back then.
- Yahoo! — a Wayback Machine snapshot from November 1999, one of the original web directories-turned-portals.
- AltaVista — a Wayback Machine snapshot from May 1999, back when it was one of the biggest search engines around.
- Netscape — a Wayback Machine snapshot from May 1999 of the site behind Netscape Navigator, the browser this page is styled for.
- Ask Jeeves — a Wayback Machine snapshot from November 1999, when you could type a plain-English question straight into the butler.
- Internet Archive — the non-profit behind the Wayback Machine, which is how the three archived links above are still viewable today.