mrpalmer16Jul 23, 2024

Let's bring back the webring.

https://lemmy.ml/post/18299168

Let's bring back the webring. - Lemmy

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 [https://gusbus.space/smallweb-subway]

Show threadrockSlayerJul 23, 2024
I love this idea, the back button on browsers feels like it exists because of webrings
Show threadsuperkretJul 23, 2024
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
Show threadschnurritoJul 23, 2024
then you’re visiting websites that are badly coded
Show threadsuperkret
like lemmy, for example.
Jul 23, 2024 at 3:45pmWeb
Show threadschnurritoJul 23, 2024
the back button works fine for me here