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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. Alternative webring systems by Harumuka · · Score: 3, Redundant

    There's a large list of webring systems at Google under Computers > Internet > Web Design and Development > Web Ring Systems. Hopefully not all webring systems will go the way of WebRing.

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  2. Good concept, unpractical in real life... by tcc · · Score: 1, Redundant


    How many times did you fall on a web page that had that webring thing? Ok.

    How many broken links? how how many times did you have to cache the original page in a different page, "lookup 5 sites" on another page, and go thru them one by one? (or always pressing back after a 404 error).

    I guess the ringowners had better things to do than to maintain their lists, the concept was cool while it was working, but right now it's just a pain and time wasting. I agree, put this dog to sleep.

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