Society & Culture
883 sites
Subcategories:
- Genealogy & Family History (140)
- Religion & Spirituality (74)
- History (162)
- Philosophy (121)
- Paranormal & Occult (42)
- Subcultures (333)
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.
http://lgchronicle.net/
Barbara Chapman has built an in-depth historical chronicle of Leverstock Green, a village in Hertfordshire, UK, covering everything from prehistory through the 21st century. The site includes sections on local maps, Holy Trinity Church, and invites residents to contribute family photographs and personal histories to the archive.
https://unsm-ento.unl.edu/Egyptian_Sacred_Scarab/egs-text.htm
Curated by Elaine A. Evans of the McClung Museum at the University of Tennessee, this scholarly resource explores the sacred scarab amulet of ancient Egypt in rich detail, covering its religious symbolism, types, ornamentation, and connection to the god Khepri. Featuring museum collection pieces and references to Egyptological sources like Flinders Petrie, it offers an authoritative and accessible look at one of antiquity's most iconic artifacts.
https://6520x.neocities.org/
Synovial666 (also known as mega) has built a personal Neocities space with a dark, coffin-and-occult aesthetic, complete with warnings about flashing lights, unsettling topics, and religious themes. The site is still early in development with a blog, a stuff tab for suggestions, and promises of games to come.
https://tilde.town/~gobbldyg00k
Elanor's tilde.town homepage documents her very first steps learning the command line and HTML, with a charming list of terminal discoveries she made along the way. A link to her HTML and CSS experimentation page suggests this is a budding old-web explorer just getting started in the tilde community.
https://usgenwebsites.org/nvgenweb
NVGenWeb is Nevada's chapter of the USGenWeb Project, offering a comprehensive resource guide for genealogical and historical research across the Silver State. Visitors can search records covering cemeteries, census data, military history, vital records, obituaries, and much more, with county-level links and a clickable state map for easy navigation.
https://genealogyindexer.org/
Genealogy Indexer is a free search engine covering over 2 million scanned pages of historical directories, yizkor books, military lists, and school records, focused primarily on Central and Eastern European Jewish genealogy. Researchers can browse collections spanning dozens of countries and regions, with tools for transliterating between Latin, Cyrillic, and Hebrew scripts to aid in tracing family histories across linguistic boundaries.
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://yesterweb.org/
The Yesterweb is a community movement dedicated to reclaiming the internet from corporate and algorithmic control, advocating for a more human, creative, and socially responsible web culture. Centered around a detailed manifesto, social etiquette guidelines, a zine, and a webring, it serves as a hub for those who believe in building an independent, old-web-inspired internet community.
The Geek Code
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https://geekcode.xyz/
An archival copy of the legendary Geek Code pages, originally created by Robert Hayden in 1993 as a fun shorthand for geeks to describe themselves online. The site preserves a genuine piece of early internet culture, including the original code generator and Hayden's own reflections on the wild, pre-commercial web of the 1990s.