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Webring - Another One Bites The Dust

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the geocities-then-yahoo-then-obscurity dept.

imrdkl writes: "Salon is running an feature about the history of the WebRing since Yahoo! bought it last September. The article goes on to give an outlook on Yahoo! itself, including how WebRing has recently been sold to one of the original developers. Webring seemed to me to be a really nice neighborly concept, but it seems at least some of the ringmasters reckon it should die now."

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  1. so what? by gkbarr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    IRC is still alive and well.

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  2. Re:I joined the "random web webring" (OT) by PyroMosh · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So that's what a "Hrung" is!

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  3. "anotherone bites the dust"? by anotherone · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, I'm offended.

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  4. Beginning fo WebRing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The Salon article doesn't give Sage enough credit. I remember sitting in a side room in InfoStructure, the first ISP in Ashland Oregon, when Sage showed me WebRing for the first time.

    We had been spending lots of time with the SOU college geeks who started up the ISP, and since it was a mere 5 blocks from the high school, it was the natural choice over boring classes like chemistry (for me).

    I spent most of my spare time playing Doom online, and Sage was busy loading FreeBSD on some box he had pieced togethor. He was way ahead of me. I think the initial version of WebRing he showed me was all in Perl? I can't recall but i'm pretty sure that was the case. I haven't looked recently, it may still be the case.

    I know he forked it off to StarSeed, but he was involved somewhat through the whole deal. He ended up pocketing a handsome chunk of cash from the repeated sales and stock swaps that become the norm for WebRing.

    This is actually one of those things that was spawned at the beginning of the web, where the creator did well by it, and the idea was original. A true internet first, and Sage has claim to that forever. WebRing would be much more than it is today if it really had a concerted group of people working on it. Maybe it will.

    There were a couple geeks to watch that came out of the class of '96 at AHS. It will be fascinating to see what comes out next.

    I'm working hard on my contribution right now.

    Alexander Mace