Society & Culture
883 sites
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https://exnihl.neocities.org/
The Shore of Nihil is a personal Neocities site by a creator who covers fandom topics and personal life, with content intended for older audiences. The site features a retro CRT aesthetic, autoplay gifs, and is still in the process of updating its pages to a new layout.
https://josh.works/
Josh Thompson's personal scratch pad digs into urban economics, zoning laws, land use policy, and walkable city design, drawing on works like Marie-Agnes and Alain Bertaud's 'Order Without Design' and Christopher Alexander's 'A Pattern Language'. The site blends thoughtful analysis of city planning failures with street-level illustrations of pedestrian path patterns, making dense policy topics surprisingly approachable.
https://niagara.nygenweb.net/military/jacksondiary.html
A transcription of the 1864 Civil War diary of Shedrick Jackson, a Black barber from Middleport, New York who served in the 140th NY regiment, donated to the Niagara County NYGenWeb project by a descendant's relative. The diary offers a rare day-by-day firsthand account of camp life throughout the year 1864, concluding with a poem written by Jackson himself.
https://encounters-ltd.neocities.org/
The landing page for 'encountersltd,' a creative personal site featuring a robotic slime humanoid mascot named 'Me' and a big-eyed UFO character called Terry as its charming entry point. The site participates in old-web webrings like 'hotline' and 'Forever Neighborhood,' and leans into indie web culture with political solidarity graphics and a hand-crafted aesthetic.
https://niplav.site/
Niplav's sprawling intellectual website covers forecasting, AI alignment, existential risk, mathematics, philosophy, and quantified self experiments in long-form essays that resist the blog format entirely. The site reads like a personal research compendium, with best-of lists, translations, transcriptions, media consumption logs, and original analysis across a wide range of rationalist and effective-altruism-adjacent topics.
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https://lord-nikon.neocities.org/
Lord Nikon's 'Hackstock' is a personal domain with a cyberpunk-tinged aesthetic, featuring fandoms, a D&D character page, and a theme song by Apoptygma Berzerk with a VNV Nation remix, signaling deep roots in industrial and futurepop culture. The site participates in the Hotline and Retronaut webrings and wears its old-web handcrafted credentials proudly with badges for Notepad++, Firefox, and AMD.
https://heyuri.net/
Heyuri is an English-language imageboard community that recreates the nostalgic aesthetic and culture of the pre-2006 internet, with boards covering anime, manga, oekaki art, and Japanese internet culture. Beyond bulletin boards, it hosts interactive CGI games, a wiki, polls, and community events like the annual Bunkasai creative festival.
https://tilde.club/~ben
Ben is one of the admins of tilde.club and founder of tilde.team, sharing his involvement in the tilde community and its revival as a collaborative internet experiment. The page reflects the old-web tilde culture ethos, with links to the tildeverse zine and notes on building sites from markdown source.
https://silent.am/aristocrat
Elegance de la Nuit is the only approved fanlisting dedicated to Elegant Gothic Aristocrat fashion, a refined Japanese street fashion style emphasizing Victorian and aristocratic aesthetics. With 22 members from 5 countries, it offers a small but dedicated community for fans of EGA to connect and show their appreciation for the style.
https://solarpunk-ring.net/
Created by Hegad, this webring connects independent personal websites united by the solarpunk movement, a genre and philosophy centered on hopeful, human-made visions of ecological and social futures. Members must host original content, avoid AI-generated material, and display the ring widget, making this a curated community of optimistic creators outside corporate networks.