Society & Culture
883 sites
Subcategories:
- Genealogy & Family History (140)
- Religion & Spirituality (74)
- History (162)
- Philosophy (121)
- Paranormal & Occult (42)
- Subcultures (333)
https://ombekende.neocities.org/
A whimsical personal site themed entirely around bees, inviting visitors into the 'bee zone' with image-heavy content and a playful warning about mobile compatibility. The site participates in the Hotline and Retronaut webrings, suggesting a love of old-web aesthetics alongside its buzzy subject matter.
http://ab-s.co.uk/index.html
A Christian faith site centered on the teachings of Jesus Christ, covering themes of prayer, salvation, healing, and God's grace. The site's motto 'Making A Difference In The Name Of Jesus' signals a devotional focus on sharing biblical belief and spiritual encouragement.
http://searchforancestors.com/google/searcher.html
SearchforAncestors.com offers a specialized Google search tool that teaches genealogists how to use advanced Google features for tracing family history, covering everything from searching for GEDCOM files to finding digitized books and newsgroup archives. Each search form comes with practical tips and explanations tailored to genealogy research, making it a genuinely useful toolkit for beginners and experienced researchers alike.
http://sweetcharm.net/
SweetCharm.net is a charming old-web personal page centered around cliques, those small web communities where like-minded visitors could join and display a badge on their own sites. The page features a carousel, a 'cafe rose' clique, and a link-me graphic, suggesting a site deeply rooted in early-2000s web culture and online community building.
https://orbis.stanford.edu/
ORBIS is an interactive geospatial network model of the ancient Roman world, built by Stanford scholars Walter Scheidel and Elijah Meeks, allowing users to calculate travel routes across the Roman Empire by road, river, and sea. Visitors can explore travel times, costs, and distances between hundreds of Roman sites using historically grounded transportation modes, making it an extraordinary research tool for historians and classical scholars.
https://screamingegg.neocities.org/
Screaming Egg is a personal Neocities site with a mysterious, esoteric atmosphere, featuring sections on art, hobbies, and an in-progress Esoterica page that hints at occult and oddities content. The creator uses atmospheric prose, shark imagery, and participates in multiple webrings, giving the site a distinct small-web personality centered on the strange and unusual.
https://themiddleages.net/people/names.html
A scholarly reference on Anglo-Norman personal names from medieval England, tracing naming trends from the Norman Conquest through the fourteenth century with detailed lists of male and female names. Written by Susan Carroll-Clark, this page challenges the assumption that medieval naming was limited, offering rich historical context alongside Gothic and Carolingian name tables.
https://necronomi.com/
Necronomi.com is a personal site with an occult-themed aesthetic, hinting at dark and esoteric content through its 'forbidden pages' branding. The site is currently transitioning to version 2.0 and directing visitors to the creator's new blog at sorcerer.blog.
https://oldradio.com/
Oldradio.com, maintained by Barry Mishkind 'The Eclectic Engineer,' is a comprehensive broadcast archive dedicated to the history of radio, drawing on FCC files, university sources, and historical publications to separate fact from industry myth. Visitors can explore a deep table of contents, mailing lists for professional broadcasters, and a companion resource called the Broadcasters' Desktop Reference.
http://newbanner.com/
The New Banner Institute is a Columbia, South Carolina organization founded in 1968 dedicated to philosophic inquiry spanning metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, economics, and cognitive science, drawing on Objectivist and Aristotelian traditions. Visitors can explore working papers, seminar materials, a bibliography of publications, and information about the affiliated College of Early Learning, a Montessori school studying how children develop consciousness.