Society & Culture
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http://contemporary-home-computing.org/art-and-tech/not
Net artist and educator Olia Lialina presents a lecture-essay examining the role of Media Theory in art and technology universities, critiquing how corporate language replaces meaningful terms like 'computer,' 'interface,' and 'users' with sanitized substitutes. The piece is richly footnoted and draws on Flusser, Kittler, and other media theorists while weaving in Lialina's own research into 1990s web culture and new media literacy.
https://kradeelav.com/leather-resources.html
Created by kradeelav, this carefully curated resource page introduces visitors to the Leather community as a movement, aesthetic, and identity deeply intertwined with LGBT and kink history. It compiles books, films, organizations, zines, and links ranging from foundational texts like 'Urban Aboriginals' to archives of historic events like the Folsom Street Fair, making it an accessible starting point for curious newcomers and community members alike.
http://theatrehistory.com/index.html
TheatreHistory.com is a dedicated archive covering the history of theatre, offering online play texts, monologues, and curated links for researchers and enthusiasts alike. The site includes a script archive and bookstore, making it a practical reference hub for anyone studying or performing in theatrical productions.
https://candyteeth.neocities.org/
Mortis (also known as Bones) runs this chaotic, expressive personal homepage celebrating their identity as a furry, otherkin, and queer teen with a love of electronic music, drawing, and computers. The site is a classic old-web personal introduction page packed with identity labels, webring participation, and the unapologetic weirdness its creator wears as a badge of pride.
https://tilde.town/~peter
Peter's tilde.town member page from 2014, featuring a handful of early posts about shipping code quickly, a MS Paint competition entry from a university LAN party, and a photo taken in Copenhagen. Sparse but charming, it captures the casual early spirit of the tilde.town old-web revival community.
https://tilde.town/~kirch
Kirch's tilde.town page is a wonderfully eclectic personal hub packed with generative poetry tools, vintage computing tributes, rogue-like games, and quirky cult-themed experiments. A true tilde community member, Kirch shares everything from BBC Micro music tech to ANSI art and a random magnetic poetry generator, making this a delightful rabbit hole of old-web creativity.
http://earlyquakers.org/
The National Society, Descendants of Early Quakers (NSDEQ) is a membership organization founded in 1980 to promote historical research and preservation of Quaker family records. Visitors can explore membership requirements, qualifying ancestors, and useful genealogical sources tracing lineage back to the early Society of Friends.
https://lgbtqia.wiki/wiki/Unlabeled
The LGBTQIA+ Wiki is a community-maintained encyclopedia covering sexuality, gender identity, terminology, and related concepts with over 8,500 articles. This particular entry documents the 'unlabeled' identity, exploring what it means to opt out of specific labels for gender or sexuality while still being part of the broader LGBTQIA+ community.
https://links.net/vita/web/start/original.html
A preserved snapshot of Justin Hall's original 1994 homepage, one of the earliest personal websites ever published, served from a PowerBook laptop in a Swarthmore College dorm room. This piece of living web history captures the raw excitement of early hypertext publishing, complete with original link recommendations and commentary that predates the modern web.
http://wimble.outlandsheralds.org/
The Outlands College of Heralds Wimble Herald site maintains the Order of Precedence and Who's Who records for members of the Society for Creative Anachronism's Kingdom of the Outlands. Visitors can search for people by name, alias, or local group, browse award membership lists, and find information about awards given across reigns and baronies.