Society & Culture
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https://tilde.town/~abundantmussel
John's freshly created tilde.town member page, part of the collaborative unix community at tilde.town, with content yet to come. Nearly empty at the time of capture, it signals an account just getting started on the old-web revival platform.
http://tilde.club/~kake/email.club.html
Hosted on tilde.club, this page lists all community members who have opted in to exchanging slow, chatty emails with strangers on the server. It's a charming piece of tilde community infrastructure that encourages pen-pal style correspondence among members of the old-web revival scene.
https://howsoonisnow.org/
How Soon Is Now? is a richly crafted old-web personal site by a self-described webmistress who fills it with shrines, scrapbooks, a medialog, writings, and a digital garden. Highlights include dedicated shrines to obscure games, Alice, and Devil May Cry, alongside playful interactive features like a cow name generator, a doodle canvas, and an embedded Minesweeper clone.
http://sakura.nu/witches
The Burning Days is a TFL-approved fanlisting dedicated to witches, gathering 24 members from 11 countries who share a love of the subject. Part of the Lost in Tokyo collective, it offers a simple community hub for fans to join and be counted among fellow enthusiasts.
https://glenrosefarm.blogspot.com/2002_03_31_glenrosefarm_archive.html
John S. Bell writes reflections on life, literature, Orthodox Christianity, and sheep farming from his hillside farm in the Shenandoah Valley. Posts range from obituaries for obscure science fiction writers like R.A. Lafferty to musings on guard llamas, Easter morning, and English verse, making it a genuinely eclectic and thoughtful read.
https://grackle.neocities.org/
Grackle's Place is a curated archive directory collecting links to LGBT-focused resources organized by community: gay men, lesbian, bisexual, trans and GNC, intersex, and HIV/AIDS. Built and maintained by one person, it preserves free and open-access links to older web content for queer communities, making it a useful preservation resource for LGBT internet history.
https://fukounaglr.neocities.org/
Fuko's personal Neocities room is a vibrant, chaotic old-web-style homepage featuring webrings, autoplay audio, and a content warning covering topics like drug use, cartoon gore, and mental illness. Built in Phoenix and hosted on Neocities, it reflects queer internet culture with a deliberately handcrafted aesthetic and plenty of personality.
https://norsemyth.org/
Run by Karl E. H. Seigfried, this long-running blog explores Norse mythology, Ásatrú, and Heathenry through in-depth articles and interviews with scholars and practitioners. Billed as the world's number one religion blog, it covers ancient myth alongside modern religious practice, making it a rich resource for anyone curious about Norse spiritual traditions.
https://civilwar.nygenweb.net/
A detailed genealogical and historical resource focused on New York State's role in the Civil War, part of the NYGenWeb Project. Visitors can explore Medal of Honor recipients, G.A.R. obituaries from old newspapers, soldier rosters, prison diaries, and headstone photos contributed by researchers across the state.
http://joskingston.org/LDEN/LDENCONTENTS.html
Jos Kingston's detailed historical study of life in Elizabethan-era Norton, Sheffield, covers occupation, social class, poverty, and parish records spanning 1560 to 1650. Downloadable baptism, marriage, and burial records make this a valuable resource for family historians and local historians researching the period.