Society & Culture
883 sites
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- Religion & Spirituality (74)
- History (162)
- Philosophy (121)
- Paranormal & Occult (42)
- Subcultures (333)
https://juniorgeneral.org/
Junior General is a free community-driven resource dedicated to teaching history through paper soldier miniatures, tabletop wargames, and interactive classroom scenarios spanning Ancients through Modern conflicts. Visitors can download printable paper miniatures organized by historical era, access battle scenarios like Pearl Harbor and the Korean War, and find articles on historical gaming in the classroom.
https://squirrelinhell.blogspot.com/
SquirrelInHell is a thoughtful Blogspot blog exploring rationality, cognitive patterns, mental models, and unconventional ideas about human behavior and gender. Posts reference figures like Scott Alexander and touch on AI safety, personal growth frameworks, and philosophical observations that aim to push beyond conventional wisdom.
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.
https://shmoko.neocities.org/?webring=htmlhobbyist
Shmoko's colorful personal homepage covers a range of interests including video games, music, digital art, DIY clothing and patches, body mods, and a strong pro-piracy free-web philosophy. The site features a 'Brainrot TV' video section, a Soulseek sharing page, webrings, and an endearing hand-crafted old-web aesthetic built around alternative punk and scene culture.
http://bleb.net/rhizomat
A portal dedicated to the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, centered on their concept of the rhizome and works like Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus. Part of the blebNet web community, it collects links to D+G resources, related nodes, and online texts for theorists and philosophy enthusiasts.
https://lovelink.nekoweb.org/
Lovelink is a stylized personal homepage on Nekoweb with a retro web aesthetic, complete with webrings and a dramatic entry portal. The site warns visitors about mature content and unfinished code, suggesting a work-in-progress creative personal space with old-web sensibilities.
http://dimenet.com/hotnews
DIMENET Hot News Network is a newsgroup archive and virtual community hub dedicated to the disability rights movement, organizing resources, news, and advocacy for independent living. Featuring links to direct action updates, independent living centers, statewide councils, and campaigns like 'Expect the Respect,' it serves as a grassroots organizing hub for disability community activists.
https://tilde.town/~selfsame
The homepage of tilde.town user ~selfsame, featuring a minimalist interface with links to community members, a tildeOS system panel, and tools for navigating the tilde.town social unix community. It serves as both a personal landing page and a hub connecting to friends and fellow tilde users through a whimsical, text-based aesthetic.
https://grrrl.valentinely.cc/
Made by a Girl is a mini clique run by lapin that lets website creators proudly display that their site was handcrafted by a girl. Members can grab one of the provided badges and link back to show solidarity with girl-made corners of the web.
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/sbook.asp
The Internet Medieval Sourcebook, edited by Paul Halsall at Fordham University's Center for Medieval Studies, is a massive curated collection of primary source texts covering the entire medieval period, from the fall of Rome through the Renaissance and Reformation. Researchers and educators will find full-text sources, saints' lives, law texts, maps, and topically organized sections on everything from the Crusades and Byzantine studies to medieval Jewish life and gender history.