Society & Culture
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https://tilde.town/~selfsame
The homepage of tilde.town user ~selfsame, featuring a minimalist interface with links to community members, a tildeOS system panel, and tools for navigating the tilde.town social unix community. It serves as both a personal landing page and a hub connecting to friends and fellow tilde users through a whimsical, text-based aesthetic.
https://alexander.illinoisgenweb.org/cox/immanuellutheran.html
Part of the ILGenWeb project for Alexander County, Illinois, this page documents the history and photos of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Cairo, tracing its founding in 1866 by German immigrant settlers through its decades of pastors and renovations. It includes rare interior photographs, a detailed congregational history written by church historian Mrs. H. Brinkmeyer, and notes on early founding families like the Lohrs, making it a valuable resource for local and genealogical research.
https://kidwiththechemicalz.neocities.org/
A personal corner on Neocities by 'kidwiththechemicalz', active since 2021 and now winding down with a farewell note hinting at a possible rebrand. The name and aesthetic suggest a Chemical Romance or alt/emo subculture influence, making it a snapshot of that corner of old-web personal expression.
https://zencoffeebreak.nekoweb.org/
ZenCoffeeBreak's cozy corner of the indieweb blends tarot, witchy interests, cat content, and aromantic/asexual identity into a charming cafe-themed personal site. The creator shares interactive tarot card readings, cat GIFs, anime fandoms like Frieren and Studio Ghibli, and a social feed, all wrapped in a carefully hand-coded static site.
https://genealogylinks.net/
GenealogyLinks.net is a massive curated directory of over 50,000 links organized by region, covering genealogy resources for the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and beyond. Researchers can browse birth records, marriage records, census data, and more by country or state, making it an invaluable starting point for tracing family history worldwide.
https://johnsoncoks.cottonhills.net/
Johnson County KSGenWeb is a free genealogy and history resource for Johnson County, Kansas, offering hundreds of pages of county records including births, deaths, marriages, court records, census data, biographies, and cemetery gravestone photos. Part of the USGenWeb Project and maintained by volunteers since 1995, this site is an invaluable archive for anyone tracing family roots in the Olathe, Kansas area.
http://invisible5.org/index.php?page=lariver
Invisible5 documents a road trip audio tour along Interstate 5, with this stop focusing on the Los Angeles River and the environmental advocacy work of FoLAR (Friends of the Los Angeles River). Visitors can listen to MP3 recordings, view LANDSAT maps, and read about water pollution, habitat destruction, and community restoration efforts along one of the most heavily concrete-channelized urban rivers in the world.
http://tabula-rasa.info/DarkAges/Timeline1.html
Created by David Carroll and Kyla Ward, this meticulously researched timeline traces the history of horror from the 13th century through the 19th, covering everything from the Inquisition and Dante's Inferno to Gothic novels and the Marquis de Sade. Each entry links to detailed articles on key figures and works, making it an impressive reference for anyone interested in the dark cultural and literary heritage that shaped the horror genre.
https://demonicpedigree.com/
Demonic Pedigree is a stylized personal site belonging to a creator named Clover, featuring a gothic-aesthetic design with webrings, cliques, and a neighborhood section. The ornate blackletter typography, audio elements, and old-web charm make it a quintessential example of the modern indie web revival with a dark, whimsical aesthetic.
https://lovebyte.party/
Lovebyte is an annual online demoparty dedicated entirely to sizecoding, where competitors create intros, graphics, and music in extremely tiny file sizes ranging from 32 bytes to 1024 bytes. Held over a February weekend on Discord and Twitch, the event features multiple competition categories, seminars, bytejams, and showcases spanning oldschool platforms like ZX Spectrum and Atari to modern high-end and fantasy consoles.