Subcultures
332 sites
https://tilde.town/~gobbldyg00k
Elanor's tilde.town homepage documents her very first steps learning the command line and HTML, with a charming list of terminal discoveries she made along the way. A link to her HTML and CSS experimentation page suggests this is a budding old-web explorer just getting started in the tilde community.
http://winterseve.altervista.org/redheads
Cherry on Top is a fanlisting dedicated to red-haired women, run by Holly of Winters Eve and listed under The Fanlistings Network's People Miscellany category. With 186 members and counting, it invites fellow fans of redheads to join and celebrate the distinctive look.
https://zephyrscoolweb-site.nekoweb.org/home.html
Zephyr's personal homepage on Nekoweb features a Windows XP aesthetic complete with installation music and dialog box imagery, reflecting the old-web revival style. The creator shares their pronouns, anarcho-pacifist identity, and colorful personality in a minimalist but charming retro-web format.
https://futch.nekoweb.org/
Eloise/Silvie/Wolf/Valentine's personal indie web home is a lovingly chaotic corner of the internet celebrating queer identity, furry culture, and anti-corporate web philosophy. The site features shrines, an art gallery, fanfics, OCs, zines, webrings, and a heartfelt manifesto about the value of the indie web over corporate social media.
https://rollerwavegallery.neocities.org/
Rollerwavegallery is dedicated to documenting and codifying Rollerwave, a niche internet aesthetic and music genre that applies vaporwave techniques to 1970s adult contemporary and corporate music. The creator is building a definitive canon of the aesthetic, complete with music reviews, an aesthetics wiki link, and a gallery exploring the retrofuturistic, roller-rink-era vibes of this emerging subculture.
https://hope.net/
HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) is the official site for one of the longest-running hacker conferences in the world, held in New York City and associated with 2600 Magazine. Now registered as a 501(c)(3) non-profit, the organization is actively planning HOPE 26 and inviting speakers, contributors, and community members to shape its future.
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://scourgescloset.neocities.org/
A personal page belonging to someone who participated in the selfship webring, a community centered around the hobby of self-shipping with fictional characters. The site is image-heavy and minimal in text, giving it the feel of a small personal corner of the old web.
https://aerofanlisting.nekoweb.org/
Created by Slaid, this fanlisting celebrates Frutiger Aero, the glossy nature-meets-technology design aesthetic that dominated consumer visuals from roughly 2004 to 2013. With 88 members and approval from The Fanlistings Network, it serves as a gathering point for fans of this nostalgic design philosophy rooted in glass, water, and biomorphic imagery.
https://drmollytov.dev/
Molly's site blends cyberpunk philosophy with a gardening metaphor to explore how humanity persists and flourishes despite technological encroachment, offering a manifesto, curated library links, and personal writing under whimsical section names like 'Library of Apocalypxandria' and 'The Feral House.' Accessible via the web, Gemini, and Gopher, this handcrafted space is a genuinely original corner of the old web with a strong anti-AI, pro-human ethos and a wry sense of humor.