Society & Culture
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- Paranormal & Occult (42)
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https://ghostwing.tripod.com/enter.html
Ghostwings' Strange World is a classic old-web paranormal site where the creator 'Ghost' collected strange, unexplained, and freaky experiences and information to share with visitors. Covering UFOs, alien abductions, hauntings, ghosts, and paranormal investigations, it embodies the X-Files-era fascination with the weird and unexplained.
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.
http://sweetcharm.net/
SweetCharm.net is a charming old-web personal page centered around cliques, those small web communities where like-minded visitors could join and display a badge on their own sites. The page features a carousel, a 'cafe rose' clique, and a link-me graphic, suggesting a site deeply rooted in early-2000s web culture and online community building.
https://mycelial.technology/
Glyph's personal site explores the intersection of mycology, botany, coding, and decentralized technology through a philosophy of symbiosis and 'wu wei.' Visitors will find art, projects, and musings spanning fungi cultivation, fermentation, electronics, meditation, and computers, all woven together by a vision of a multispecies future.
https://naiveyearly.com/
Naive Yearly is an annual conference organized by Kristoffer that gathers artists, designers, developers, and writers who explore the web as a creative and expressive medium. Past editions have been held in Copenhagen and Ljubljana in collaboration with cultural institutions, with talks archived in a library and community summits planned for 2025.
http://gwpda.org/naval/n0000000.htm
A comprehensive reference section of the GWPDA WWI Archive dedicated to the naval dimension of World War One, covering ships, weapons, tactics, fleet deployments, battles, and communications in impressive detail. Compiled by William Schleihauf, it features specialized content like warship colour schemes, signal flags, destroyer markings, and fleet lists from multiple nations including Britain, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Japan.
https://astracelestine.nekoweb.org/
Astra's personal corner of the indie web, built by a teenage girl who grew up online and shares her thoughts on mental health, trauma, and politics. The landing page features an iMac G3 aesthetic with autoplaying music and links to her webspace and a tropical rice bowl webring.
https://uh.edu/~cfreelan/SWIP/index.html
The Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) has maintained this resource hub since 1972, promoting and supporting women in academic philosophy through newsletters, divisional meetings, and feminist philosophy resources. Visitors will find course syllabi, bibliographies, reading lists, statistics on women in philosophy, and links to feminist theory journals and graduate programs.
https://paranormalphotos.tripod.com/
Theresa F. Koch, M.S. in Parapsychic Science, shares her extensive research into ghosts, spirits, orbs, ley lines, occult symbols, and paranormal photography from locations around the world. The site includes ghost investigation guides, crystal healing tips, mysteries and myths, a haunted mirror account, and hundreds of submitted paranormal photographs organized by region.
https://manuscriptminiatures.com/
ManuscriptMiniatures.com is a massive image database of over 16,000 miniatures depicting armoured figures from medieval European manuscripts created before 1450, drawn from 1,526 manuscripts across 19 countries. Researchers and history enthusiasts can search, browse by tags, and explore rare illuminated manuscript images alongside related collections covering effigies, brasses, and aquamanilia.