Society & Culture
883 sites
Subcategories:
- Genealogy & Family History (140)
- Religion & Spirituality (74)
- History (162)
- Philosophy (121)
- Paranormal & Occult (42)
- Subcultures (333)
https://janasgenealogyandfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/
Jana Last's long-running genealogy blog traces her Norwegian, Swedish, Portuguese, Mexican, and English ancestry through obituaries, immigration stories, vintage postcards, and ancestral signatures. With dedicated pages for individual family lines, a research toolbox, WikiTree integration, and participation in the '52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks' challenge, this is a rich personal record of multi-ethnic family history research.
https://bestiary.ca/index.html
A comprehensive online repository dedicated to the medieval Bestiary, the illustrated Book of Beasts that shaped how people in the Middle Ages understood animals, mythology, and symbolism. Visitors can explore individual beasts, original manuscripts, a digital text library, scholarly articles, and an encyclopedia covering animals in medieval culture.
https://www.svenknebel.de/posts
Sven Knebel's personal blog chronicles his demoscene contributions, including TIC-80 byte-sized programs submitted to events like Deadline and Lovebyte demoparty, complete with code, screenshots, and videos. The site also touches on IndieWeb tech experiments like micropub endpoints and occasional 'Today I Learned' posts, making it a fascinating window into the demoscene and indie web communities.
https://orbis.stanford.edu/
ORBIS is an interactive geospatial network model of the ancient Roman world, built by Stanford scholars Walter Scheidel and Elijah Meeks, allowing users to calculate travel routes across the Roman Empire by road, river, and sea. Visitors can explore travel times, costs, and distances between hundreds of Roman sites using historically grounded transportation modes, making it an extraordinary research tool for historians and classical scholars.
https://schildkroete.neocities.org/
Schildkröte is a personal blog chronicling its creator's day-to-day emotional struggles, recovery, and small victories through short, candid journal entries. Posts touch on withdrawal, personal goals, workouts, and the quiet effort of rebuilding daily life, making it a raw and relatable online diary.
http://oil21.org/
A critical analysis project examining intellectual property law, copyright, patents, and trademarks through a skeptical lens, inspired by Mark Getty's provocative quote framing IP as the 'oil of the 21st century.' The site explores conflicts around digital rights management, the war on piracy, and corporate control of information with philosophical depth and sharp wit.
https://asmodeusvulcan.neocities.org/
AsmodeusvVulcan's self-described 'personal hellsite' on Neocities features virtual pets, webrings including a Transmasculine Pride Webring co-created with their girlfriend, and an enthusiastically chaotic old-web aesthetic. The site is actively growing with many pages in progress, built for chromium browsers and widescreen viewing, and carries a distinctly queer and countercultural identity throughout.
https://melonsoda.nekoweb.org/
Melonsoda's self-described 'tropical paradise' is an adult personal site with a bold, irreverent aesthetic and explicit content warnings for mature, kink-friendly, and NSFW material. The landing page sets clear community boundaries and a deliberately provocative tone, signaling a site built for a specific adult subculture audience.
https://cementgarden.neocities.org/
Cementgarden is a personal Neocities site by a creator who documents their interests in EGL (elegant gothic lolita) fashion, art, music, and daily life through diary entries, a closet showcase, and drawings. The site features a layout archive, custom stylesheets, a music diary with an embedded player, and a warm old-web aesthetic that makes it a charming slice of personal expression.
https://osakasyndrome.bearblog.dev/
OsakaSyndrome's minimalist Bear-powered blog collects miscellaneous personal thoughts and observations under the handle Osaka. The site is part of the denpa webring, hinting at a connection to internet subculture and niche online communities.