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

submitted 4 months 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] 14 points 4 months ago (13 children)

It exists because web browsers used to not have tabs. Nowadays it's useless cause with modern scripted web pages you never properly get back to the site you left

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Just block JavaScript

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (8 children)

Then the entire browser becomes useless. I couldn't even post this comment without JavaScript.

Edit: I wish a search engine that only showed websites without JavaScript existed.

[–] Hammerheart 2 points 2 months ago

Duckduckgo has a no javascript mode.

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