Society & Culture
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- Religion & Spirituality (74)
- History (162)
- Philosophy (121)
- Paranormal & Occult (42)
- Subcultures (333)
https://www.riri.my/
Riri's personal corner of the internet blends a medical/clinical aesthetic with diary entries, a photo collection, and unfiltered personal musings in a style deeply rooted in old-web and Neocities subculture. The site features a creatively styled void_log with a dark-whimsical tone, a self-created webring, and a changelog documenting its evolving identity across domains and redesigns.
http://conjure.com/
Rowan Fairgrove's personal hub covers Wicca, Pagan spirituality, Celtic culture, and interfaith resources, with links to organizations like the Covenant of the Goddess and Witchvox. Visitors will also find a Celtic compendium, genealogy pages, clip art, and a mural project showcasing her wide range of creative and spiritual interests.
http://contemporary-home-computing.org/art-and-tech/not
Net artist and educator Olia Lialina presents a lecture-essay examining the role of Media Theory in art and technology universities, critiquing how corporate language replaces meaningful terms like 'computer,' 'interface,' and 'users' with sanitized substitutes. The piece is richly footnoted and draws on Flusser, Kittler, and other media theorists while weaving in Lialina's own research into 1990s web culture and new media literacy.
https://nightfall.city/
Nightfall City is a creative online community styled as a fictional cyberpunk metropolis, organized into thematic 'districts' for writers, socializing, and exploration, accessible via a telnet-style interface. With neighborhoods like Writer's Lane and Dusk's End, it evokes the spirit of old-school BBSes and text-based internet culture with a poetic, atmospheric twist.
https://babywormcore.baby/
Babywormcore is a quirky, anti-corporate personal Neocities page built around old-web aesthetics, wormcore imagery, and anti-megacorp internet philosophy. Featuring a cast of characters like Conrad the slime and Princess Aralise, crayon drawings of worms and plants, and a NO AI webring, it radiates handcrafted internet culture with a distinct subculture identity.
https://links.net/vita/web/start/original.html
A preserved snapshot of Justin Hall's original 1994 homepage, one of the earliest personal websites ever published, served from a PowerBook laptop in a Swarthmore College dorm room. This piece of living web history captures the raw excitement of early hypertext publishing, complete with original link recommendations and commentary that predates the modern web.
http://balthasar-gracian.virtusens.de/
A German-language resource dedicated to Balthasar Gracián, the 17th-century Spanish Jesuit philosopher known for his practical philosophy and art of worldly wisdom. The site connects Gracián to fellow classical thinkers including Machiavelli, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Montaigne, serving as a hub for serious readers of European philosophical literature.
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.
https://bahai-library.com/search
The Bahai Library Online is a comprehensive searchable database of Baha'i texts, documents, and publications, allowing visitors to search by author, title, date, tags, and more. Its vast catalog spans centuries of chronology and includes categories ranging from translations and theses to NSA documents and pilgrims' notes, making it an invaluable reference for Baha'i scholarship.
https://tilde.town/~npa
A minimalist tilde.town member page by npa, featuring a collaborative 'rainbow wall' where visitors can leave graffiti alongside a browsable history of past contributions. The site leans into the communal, lo-fi spirit of tilde communities with its sparse design and interactive shared canvas.