Society & Culture
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http://textileworker.com/
The National Society of the Descendants of the Textile Workers of America (NSDTWA) is a Connecticut-incorporated nonprofit dedicated to honoring the legacy of American textile workers and their contributions during the Industrial Revolution. The organization promotes educational excellence through scholarships and supports textile museum endowments to preserve this important chapter of American labor history.
http://reliablecommunications.net/
A rare digital archive preserving materials from the August 1991 Soviet coup attempt, compiled by researchers and academics from multiple universities including SUNY Oswego, University of Iowa, and the Rand Corporation. Visitors can access documents, images, mailing list archives, and papers related to this pivotal moment in Cold War history, originally distributed via anonymous FTP.
http://particularvirtue.blogspot.com/
Particular Virtue is a thoughtful blog by 'evictorial' exploring rationalist community life, secular rituals, and personal ethics, with detailed guides like how to organize a Secular Solstice event. Posts range from practical community-organizing advice to reflections on work, meaning, and the rationalist subculture centered around the Bay Area and DC.
https://victorianweb.org/
The Victorian Web is a comprehensive scholarly resource dedicated to all aspects of the Victorian era, covering social history, political history, economics, philosophy, science, literature, visual arts, and more. Running since 1994, it links academic scholarship with teaching and learning, making it one of the oldest and most authoritative online references for Victorian studies.
http://gnosis.org/naghamm/gosthom.html
Part of the Gnostic Society Library at gnosis.org, this page presents the Gospel of Thomas in multiple scholarly translations, including the Patterson and Meyer rendering of all 114 sayings from the Nag Hammadi Coptic manuscript. It serves as a gateway to a broader collection of Gnostic texts, resources, and related books for anyone researching early Christian apocrypha or Gnostic traditions.
https://shrewbean.neocities.org/
Shrewbean's personal neocities site 'exist slowly' greets visitors with a quirky, self-deprecating introduction that celebrates intentionally messy, scrappy web design aesthetics. The landing page sets up a click-through experience with iframes and optional JavaScript interactables, signaling a creative personal space built in the spirit of old-web DIY culture.
https://tilde.town/~quephird
Danielle Kefford's tilde.town personal page, created by the user quephird, is a minimal image-heavy personal homepage on the old-web tilde community network. With 21 images and very little text, it serves as a quirky self-presentation in the tradition of indie tilde community member pages.
http://tilde.club/~canary/about
Canary's personal page on tilde.club, the old-web revival community where members host minimalist personal sites on a shared Unix server. The content is nearly bare, with just a brief 'Hello, World!' introduction post from 2019 built using Hugo and the Ezhil theme.
https://society.neocities.org/
An esoteric investigative society dedicated to exploring the true nature of being through the absurdist practice of putting things on top of other things. With entries like "Immanentizing the Eschaton" and "Towers of Thought," this quirky philosophical project blends Discordian humor with genuine metaphysical curiosity.
https://v4mpyrsharky444.neocities.org/
A personal Neocities homepage from a self-described goth who is part of the goth webring, featuring sections on interests, books, toys, and DIY projects. The site is actively updated with a changelog tracking additions like a media section dubbed 'microwave' and a growing toybox page.