In the classic web tradition, every good site kept a links page - a hand-picked list of places worth your time, traded and tended like a garden. This is ours. The old reciprocal ring of greeting sites has mostly gone to the great 404 in the sky, so today's list is shorter and sturdier: established resources we genuinely recommend, each one related to what GreetingGrams is about - greetings, humor, and the folklore of the inbox.
Greeting Cards & Their History
- Greeting Card Association - The trade association of the greeting card industry, with facts, history and trends going back to the 1840s.
- Smithsonian National Postal Museum - The story of how greetings traveled before the wire: stamps, mail, and a century of holiday card seasons.
- Library of Congress - Vast digital collections that include historical greeting cards, holiday ephemera and the American Folklife Center's work on everyday culture - including the jokes people pass around.
Humor & Inbox Folklore
- Snopes - The internet's reference desk for urban legends and chain letters. If a forward ever made you say “wait, really?”, the answer is here. (See their file on our own $250 Cookie Recipe.)
- Project Gutenberg - Tens of thousands of free public-domain books, including the complete Sherlock Holmes - the long-form ancestor of our favorite joke.
The Web Itself
- Internet Archive Wayback Machine - The memory of the web. Billions of archived pages, including the early days of every greeting site that ever traded links with this one. A national treasure with a server bill.
Suggest a Link
The links page is a living thing. If you run - or love - a family-friendly site about greetings, humor or the friendly old web, the contact page explains how to suggest it. Sites are listed on merit; the only currency accepted here is delight. And if you arrived hunting for the greetings themselves, the main page has all eight categories waiting.