Society & Culture
883 sites
Subcategories:
- Genealogy & Family History (140)
- Religion & Spirituality (74)
- History (162)
- Philosophy (121)
- Paranormal & Occult (42)
- Subcultures (333)
https://tophatcats.neocities.org/
Tophatcats is a creative personal site built around j-fashion, featuring OOTD logs, wardrobe documentation, and styling content covering lolita/EGL, menhera, and alternative streetwear. Alongside the fashion content, the site hosts original character art, an LJ icon archive, a CD collection, a tea doodle log, and a charming photo diary shot on a screenless digital camera.
http://www.anitra.net/
Anitra's Web is a sprawling 2000+ page personal site built over 25 years, created by activist and writer Anitra, covering homelessness advocacy, grassroots projects like Nickelsville, creative writing, poetry, and living with bipolar disorder. The site blends social activism with personal creativity, making it a rare archive of one person's sustained commitment to both art and humanitarian causes.
https://exnihl.neocities.org/
The Shore of Nihil is a personal Neocities site by a creator who covers fandom topics and personal life, with content intended for older audiences. The site features a retro CRT aesthetic, autoplay gifs, and is still in the process of updating its pages to a new layout.
https://tilde.town/~grb
A tilde.town member page by user grb, featuring short personal reflections on joining the tilde community and the appeal of collaborative Unix computing for those who missed the early internet era. The posts share a nostalgic, warm tone as grb recounts growing up with limited computer access and finding a sense of belonging through tilde.town's old-web revival culture.
https://cool-christian-webring.neocities.org/
The Cool Christian Webring connects Christian creators on the indie web, welcoming a broad range of identities and backgrounds under a shared faith. Members can browse the full list of Christian personal sites, join the ring, and grab a widget to display on their own pages.
https://accesstoinsight.org/lib/index.html
Access to Insight, managed by the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, hosts a vast Theravada Buddhist library containing hundreds of essays, meditation guides, sutta commentaries, and full texts from the Pali canon. Visitors can browse by author, title, or nikaya, or discover content randomly, making it an exceptional reference for serious students of Theravada Buddhism.
https://darkdragon58.tripod.com/darkdragons
Darkdragon's personal paranormal site focuses on ghosts, hauntings, and supernatural investigations, featuring multiple ghost photo galleries, investigation reports, and upcoming ghost hunt announcements. The site includes fiction ghost stories, a paranormal members section, and links to a companion site boasting over 200 ghost photographs.
https://pepysdiary.com/
Run by Phil Gyford, this site publishes Samuel Pepys' famous 17th-century London diary one entry per day, exactly as it was written, complete with reader annotations, an encyclopedia, letters, maps, and a family tree. It's an extraordinarily rich resource for anyone interested in Restoration-era England, offering years of daily entries alongside community discussion and in-depth articles.
https://blackwings.neocities.org/
Black Wings Society is a mysterious online collective centered around Serial Experiments Lain, cyberpunk philosophy, transhumanism, and lainism, presenting itself as a quasi-cult community with roots dating back to 1996. Visitors will find a stylized retro-aesthetic space referencing Mebious, the Wired, and figures like fauux, with sections for enlightenment, revival, transcendence, and connection.
http://genealogytoolbox.com/
Helm's Genealogy Toolbox, created by Matthew L. Helm and first appearing in 1994, claims the title of the oldest comprehensive genealogy and local history index on the web. Visitors can search a full-text index of genealogy resources or browse by U.S. state to find links pointing to research tools and local history materials across the country.