Society & Culture
883 sites
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http://contemporary-home-computing.org/still-there
Created by net artist and researcher Olia Lialina, 'Still There' documents the remnants of early web culture through essays on Geocities ruins, Rotterdam's internet cafés, and the backgrounds of Dutch social network Hyves. Part of a formal academic research programme, this project offers a thoughtful archaeological look at the visual and social artifacts of the early internet.
https://www.bluepuffin.net/
BluePuffin's personal Blogger-hosted blog features periodic diary-style entries covering everyday life, media recommendations, and reflections on topics like degoogling and world events. The site has a charming old-web aesthetic complete with mood indicators, webrings, badges, and a Tamagotchi widget.
http://runemaker.com/
Oswald the Runemaker's comprehensive site covers the history, meanings, and magical uses of Elder Futhark and Anglo-Saxon runes, from Viking-age origins through medieval divination practices. Visitors can browse handcrafted rune sets, bindrune amulets, runestaffs, and runic pendulums available for purchase, alongside educational content on rune interpretations, crystals, herbs, and elements associated with each rune.
https://usgenwebsites.org/nhgenweb
NHGenWeb is a free genealogical gateway covering the history and family records of New Hampshire, organized by county and coordinated by volunteers across the state. Part of the larger USGenWeb project, it connects researchers to county-level sites with ancestor records, historical context, and searchable databases for tracing New Hampshire roots.
https://motogrrl.nithaus.org/
A preserved memorial site for Leigh Ann, who passed away in May 2006, maintained by her spouses as a loving monument to her life and interests. Visitors can explore her personal pages about her vintage 1915 home, Morris dance events, family photos, and a link to her music collection.
https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/
The Roman Provincial Coinage (RPC) project is an authoritative academic database cataloguing over 71,000 coin types minted in the provinces of the Roman Empire, published jointly by the British Museum Press and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Hosted by the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, it offers searchable records by magistrate, city, countermark, and ruler, making it an essential reference for numismatists, historians, epigraphists, and archaeologists studying ancient Rome.
http://hymnsofthespirit.org/
Created by Rev. Scott Wells, this site is dedicated to the 1937 joint Unitarian-Universalist hymnal and service book 'Hymns of the Spirit,' offering orders of service, worship texts, and liturgical scholarship. It includes fascinating posts tracing connections between Unitarian, Universalist, and Reform Jewish liturgical traditions, making it a niche but valuable reference for historical liberal Protestant worship.
https://beelzebabe.neocities.org/
Beelzebabe's 'Esoteric Stupidity' is a digital curiosity cabinet featuring pixel art, chaos magick resources, stamps, pixel dolls, and eclectic occult oddities. The site blends old-web aesthetics with esoteric subject matter, making it a quirky destination for those drawn to the intersection of internet craft and the occult.
https://discoveringbristol.org.uk/
Discovering Bristol is an educational online resource exploring the port city's rich and complex history, with deep focus on Bristol's role in the transatlantic slave trade and its remarkable collection of Chinese glass artifacts. Part of the PortCities network, it offers timelines, glossaries, learning journeys, and exhibition information tied to Bristol's museums and galleries.
https://redsails.org/the-swerve
Red Sails hosts politically engaged essays examining how mainstream media and pop culture suppress radical ideas, with 'The Swerve' by Nia Frome analyzing how stories like Game of Thrones and The Hunger Games systematically undercut their own revolutionary logic. The site publishes multilingual leftist theory and criticism, drawing connections between liberal philosophy, free speech doctrine, and the limits of pop culture radicalism.