Society & Culture
883 sites
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- Religion & Spirituality (74)
- History (162)
- Philosophy (121)
- Paranormal & Occult (42)
- Subcultures (333)
https://tilde.club/~arcelan
A minimalist tilde.club member page by arcelan, featuring a French-language welcome and a philosophical quote by Stรฉphane Edouard. The page is nearly empty aside from webring navigation links, offering little content beyond its participation in the tilde community ecosystem.
http://washedashore.com/
Ben Discoe's personal homepage from the late 1990s, preserved largely unchanged, covers an eclectic range of topics including virtual terrain, electric vehicles, travel photography from Kyoto to Cuba, genealogy, Burning Man experiences, and personal rants. A genuine time capsule of the personal web era, with dozens of interlinked pages spanning technology projects, life stories, and offbeat cultural commentary.
https://twilightpentagram.neocities.org/
Twilight Pentagram is a gothic-flavored personal Neocities site with an old-web aesthetic, featuring a mysterious splash page inviting visitors to click through and explore. The site participates in the Hotline and Retronaut webrings, signaling its place within the handcrafted personal web revival community.
https://engelical.neocities.org/
Amelia's personal site is a kawaii-aesthetic space centered on her love of vocalsynth, girly kei and lolita fashion, Sanrio characters, and her self-ship with Genshin Impact's Diluc Ragnvindr. The site features poetic lyric-style text, sections on sanrio and RPGmaker interests, and a dreamy personal introduction that will resonate with fans of J-fashion and anime-adjacent hobbies.
https://cagenweb.org/capioneer
The California Pioneer Project maintains a crowdsourced list of settlers who migrated to or were born in California prior to 1880, compiled from genealogical researchers across the country. Visitors can browse pioneer names by county, access Gold Rush-era diary bibliographies, search county biographical indexes, and connect with other researchers through a contact directory.
https://puz.neocities.org/
Puz's personal Neocities homepage is dedicated to an obsessive love of 1980s aesthetics, with a retro visual theme that cheerfully admits websites didn't exist in 1989. The site has a navigation with personal pages like interests and a DNI, built by someone who clearly revels in crafting old-school web vibes.
https://theoi.com/
The Theoi Project is an exhaustive reference guide to Greek mythology created by Aaron J. Atsma, covering over 1,500 pages of gods, spirits, heroes, and mythical creatures sourced from classical literature and art. Visitors can explore detailed entries on every major deity and monster, browse an A-Z encyclopedia, view over 1,200 images from ancient vase paintings and mosaics, and read original classical texts.
http://dirk-fetzer.de/reiff.htm
Dirk Fetzer's dedicated resource page on Jakob Friedrich Reiff (1810-1879), a Tรผbingen professor and thinker of late German Idealism, covering his life, works, and philosophical legacy. The site explores connections to Hegelianism, Fichteanism, and related 19th-century idealist movements, with primary texts and external links for researchers.
https://chimerathing.neocities.org/
The Chimera's Den is a password-gated personal site run by a queer trans man, featuring a boldly styled landing page with content warnings for flashing images, autoplay music, mental health topics, and cartoon gore. The site promises a richly personal and unapologetically queer creative space for visitors aged 16 and older.
https://publications.newberry.org/ahcb/pages/Pennsylvania.html
The Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries Project offers comprehensive maps, chronologies, and data covering every Pennsylvania county's historical boundaries, names, and organizational changes from the state's earliest counties through the year 2000. Researchers can explore interactive maps, download GIS shapefiles, KMZ files for Google Earth, and printer-friendly PDFs detailing all 67 counties including extinct and proposed counties.