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[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

If you want to get really old school: I miss web rings.

[-] refalo@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago
[-] yemmly@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

BBS

real old school is reconfiguring vacuum tubes in your warehouse sized computer

[-] letsgo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Ha, you kids and your fancy new fangled vacuum tubes. REAL old school is using a bunch of relays we nicked from the local telephone exchange!

[-] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago

Can you explain what that is for us youngsters? Something like RSS feeds?

As a website owner, you would just register your site with a ring and then add a bit of HTML at the bottom of your page which would display the randomly-selected banner of another site in the ring (and your banner would sometimes be displayed on another site). So visitors could just click on the banners and be taken through a circuit of interesting (sometimes) websites.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, so basically a list/group of partner sites

[-] blusterydayve26@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

But, like, for non-commercial fan sites, not for influencers.

Not really, because you would click an arrow to get to the next website. It didn't list everything out.

[-] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

Does that still exist? I have a subpage on my website with interesting links, this could be something for it.

I haven't seen a web ring in more than 20 years.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Sailor Moon Web Ring 4 Lyfe!

[-] FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In my experience a lot of programming blogs still have them, but then again those are the people who are most capable of adding them and who are mostly likely to find them

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