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Let's bring back the webring. (gusbus.space)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Back in the day the best way to find cool sites when you were on a cool site was to click next in the webring. In this age of ailing search engines and confidently incorrect AI, it is time for the webring to make a comeback.

This person has given his the code to get started: Webring

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (10 children)

@mrpalmer16 one of my favorite things back in the day was the old-school "StumbleUpon" which was like webrings on crack.

Unfortunately, advertising and profit-seeking happened.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@bobdobberson @mrpalmer16 omg YES stumbleupon was incredible! I've asked around if people remember this and it seems that not a ton of people were on there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That sounds amazing, I somehow missed it. Some of the other sites posted abovr seem to be trying to bring back the magic.

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