Subcultures
332 sites
https://smokoswebzone.gay/
Smoko's Webzone is a vibrant, handcrafted personal site built with classic old-web aesthetics, featuring webrings, fanlistings, and queer-themed web buttons including Pride flags and LGBTQ community affiliations. The site carries content warnings for mature themes including horror, violence, and reclaimed queer language, giving it a distinct personality rooted in queer internet subculture.
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://crave.altervista.org/flag
Created by Mindy as part of The Fanlistings Network, this fanlisting invites fans of the American flag to add their names to a growing list of 64 members from around the world. It celebrates the Stars and Stripes as a symbol of freedom and liberty, offering a simple way for enthusiasts of this iconic national symbol to show their appreciation.
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/~bear
Bear's tilde.town home features a thoughtful collection of small web tools, projects, and reflections on the philosophy of personal sites as living documents rather than static printed pages. The page links to creative coding experiments, note-taking tools, a write.as publishing platform, and musings on how people change over time in ways that chronological blogs fail to capture.
https://melanated.neocities.org/
MELANATED is a curated directory connecting websites run by people of color, welcoming personal sites, fansites, and professional web projects alike. It serves as a community hub for POC webmasters to discover each other and build connections across the indie web.
https://tilde.town/~grb
A tilde.town member page by user grb, featuring short personal reflections on joining the tilde community and the appeal of collaborative Unix computing for those who missed the early internet era. The posts share a nostalgic, warm tone as grb recounts growing up with limited computer access and finding a sense of belonging through tilde.town's old-web revival culture.
https://spiritcellar.neocities.org/
Spiritcellar is a charming old-web style personal homepage on Neocities featuring a welcoming neko mascot, interactive elements like a clickable goldfish feeder, and a collection of graphics and decorative imagery. The site has a cozy, nostalgic aesthetic reminiscent of early 2000s personal pages, inviting visitors into a curated digital space.
https://phantomrats.neocities.org/
Phantomrats is a personal Neocities page by a creator who goes by 'phant0m', greeting visitors with a playful 'VIRUS ALERT' splash page. The site appears to be in very early or minimal stages, with little content beyond the landing page welcome.
https://weirdring.netlify.app/
The Weirdcore Webring is a curated community ring connecting 8 member sites united by a shared love of surreal, unsettling, and avant-garde internet aesthetics. Visitors can hop between strange and mind-bending corners of the web, from creepy pastas to offbeat art, all under the banner of weirdcore culture.