Society & Culture
883 sites
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- Genealogy & Family History (140)
- Religion & Spirituality (74)
- History (162)
- Philosophy (121)
- Paranormal & Occult (42)
- Subcultures (333)
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://qtpoc-ring.netlify.app/
The QTPOC Webring connects personal websites belonging to queer and trans people of color, curating a growing community of 20 member sites from diverse backgrounds and identities. It serves as a hub for discovery and solidarity on the indie web, with member listings, joining instructions, and affiliated webrings for queer and POC communities.
http://thur.de/philo
The 'Virtual Philosopher's Corner' is a German-language site exploring philosophical and worldview questions about nature, society, self-organization, chaos, and evolution. Featuring hypertexts on topics like dialectics, ecology, and science fiction, it doubles as a personal philosophy resource with a companion blog.
http://nativeweb.org/resources/genealogy_tracing_roots_
NativeWeb's genealogy resource section curates links and references for tracing Indigenous ancestry, covering American Indian, First Nations, and African-Native heritage research. This specialized directory includes listings for Black Indian genealogy, the Five Civilized Tribes, the USGenWeb Project, and other tools for those researching Native American family roots.
http://philosophers.org/Home.html
The Street Philosophers Society of Hong Kong runs this bilingual portal dedicated to exploring philosophy and music, with sections covering Chinese and Western philosophy, philosophical links, music theory, and an open forum for discussion. Built as a cultural bridge for Chinese readers curious about Western thought, the site also features blogs, a wiki, a marketplace for books and instruments, and a commentary section called Open Society focused on Hong Kong and world affairs.
https://heavensgate.com/
The infamous Heaven's Gate website, preserved in its original form, presents the beliefs and writings of the UFO religious cult led by Marshall Applewhite ('Do'), who taught that Earth was about to be recycled and that members could ascend to the 'Level Above Human' via a spacecraft accompanying comet Hale-Bopp. Visitors can read the group's foundational texts, video transcripts, student exit statements, and the press release documenting the 1997 mass suicide that made this site one of the most historically significant and haunting artifacts of the early web.
http://www.webarchaeology.com/html/links.htm
This links page is part of the Levi Jordan Plantation Web Archaeology project, created by Carol McDavid, connecting visitors to scholarly resources on Southern plantations, slavery, and African American genealogy. The broader site documents collaborative archaeology at a Texas plantation site, weaving together descendants, historians, and community voices.
https://geekcode.xyz/
An archival copy of the legendary Geek Code pages, originally created by Robert Hayden in 1993 as a fun shorthand for geeks to describe themselves online. The site preserves a genuine piece of early internet culture, including the original code generator and Hayden's own reflections on the wild, pre-commercial web of the 1990s.
https://fellowshipofisis.com/
The official homepage of the Fellowship of Isis, a worldwide spiritual organization founded in 1976 at Huntington Castle in Ireland, devoted to honoring the Divine Feminine and the goddess Isis across all cultures and faiths. The site offers liturgy, prayers, monthly oracles, goddess art, audio galleries, priesthood listings, and extensive historical resources about founders Olivia Robertson and Lawrence Durdin-Robertson.
http://consciousdreaming.com/lucid-dreaming/lucid-dream-and-dreaming-multimedia-links.htm
Created by Marc Vandekeere, this site serves as a multimedia library dedicated to lucid dreaming, out-of-body experiences, and astral projection, collecting free audio and video links from sources like the Monroe Institute. Visitors can explore mind-expanding media featuring interviews with authors and researchers covering consciousness, quantum physics, dream science, and spiritual topics.