Society & Culture
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https://howtosavetheworld.ca/
Dave Pollard's long-running blog tackles civilization's collapse, free will, ecological crisis, and the search for a more meaningful way to live, blending personal essays with sharp cultural criticism. The site features original short stories, poems, and satire alongside deeply considered posts on philosophy, collapse theory, and the nature of human conditioning.
https://inthe00s.com/
InThe00s was a long-running messageboard community born on amiright.com around 1998, and this site preserves its archived posts following the board's shutdown in February 2025. A valuable snapshot of early 2000s internet community culture, the archive lets visitors revisit the conversations and discussions that defined the forum over its many years.
https://niplav.site/
Niplav's sprawling intellectual website covers forecasting, AI alignment, existential risk, mathematics, philosophy, and quantified self experiments in long-form essays that resist the blog format entirely. The site reads like a personal research compendium, with best-of lists, translations, transcriptions, media consumption logs, and original analysis across a wide range of rationalist and effective-altruism-adjacent topics.
https://www.bluepuffin.net/
BluePuffin's personal Blogger-hosted blog features periodic diary-style entries covering everyday life, media recommendations, and reflections on topics like degoogling and world events. The site has a charming old-web aesthetic complete with mood indicators, webrings, badges, and a Tamagotchi widget.
https://digitalfolklore.org/
The Digital Folklore Reader is a published book by Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied exploring digital vernacular culture, online amateur creativity, DIY electronics, and internet memes as genuine folklore. The site serves as the book's homepage, offering purchase links, reviews, and a freely downloadable PDF released a decade after the 2009 print edition.
https://myfam.tripod.com/cswebring.html
The Cyber Sisters Webring serves as the hub for a women-only online community called Cyber Sisters, connecting member homepages through a shared navigation ring. Visitors can find instructions for joining the webring via Yahoo's system, along with the navigation bar code needed to participate.
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.
https://humantooth.neocities.org/
The personal homepage of 'tooth' on Neocities, notable for its invocation of 虎爺 (the Tiger God, a Taiwanese folk deity) as its patron spirit. The site is minimal in visible content but carries a distinctive esoteric and old-web aesthetic with hints of secrets and hidden pages.
https://vencake.neocities.org/
VenCake is a personal 18+ site styled as a cozy café, inviting visitors to 'enter' or order takeaway before exploring its contents. The café theme and food-forward branding suggest a creative space centered around baking or food culture, with a playful and welcoming personality.
https://plantahiperactiva.nekoweb.org/
Planta Hiperactiva is a Spanish/English personal site brimming with leftist politics, anti-AI badges, pro-Palestine imagery, and quirky internet culture references. The creator curates an eclectic mix of webrings, a gallery, and retro-web aesthetics alongside politically charged alt texts and links that reflect a distinct subcultural identity.