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* [https://clmoocring.jgregorymcverry.com CLMOOC web ring] uses the Draupnir Webring plugin for WordPress | * [https://clmoocring.jgregorymcverry.com CLMOOC web ring] uses the Draupnir Webring plugin for WordPress | ||
* [https://github.com/maxboeck/webring Bolier Plate Web Ring] [[Eleventy]] and [[Netlify]] template | * [https://github.com/maxboeck/webring Bolier Plate Web Ring] [[Eleventy]] and [[Netlify]] template | ||
* [https://weirdwidewebring.net/ Weird Wide Webring] - Your site must be unique and weird in some way. It can be the way it looks. It can be the way you write or what you write about. It can be the way it smells. It can be the way your footer is covered in feet, your sidebar has a sidebartender, or blog is spelled "blag". But there must be something. ([https://github.com/jackmcdade/weird-wide-webring Join]) | |||
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Revision as of 22:16, 21 May 2020
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A webring is a collection of websites linked together in a circular structure.
Why
The point of a webring is to create a virtuous cycle of recommendations between web authors.
One author sends the 'ring' traffic and expose the ideas that they think are interesting in a way that is more seamless than a "you should read this [link]", and hopefully if that stuff is interesting the other author(s) will reciprocate.
History
WebRing was originally created by Sage Weil in 1994, who then sold it in 1997, and then promptly founded DreamHost, a popular web hosting company.
Examples
- 🕸💍
- microcast.club
- Blog Lane: http://webringo.com/browsering.php?id=818
- https://hotlinewebring.club/
- http://tilde.club/~harper/join.html
- Just redirects you to a random tilde.club user's page.
- https://www.ringsurf.com/netring/
- May have login problems.
- http://webring.org/rw
- May have login problems.
- http://webringo.com/
- http://ben.thatmustbe.us redirects to a different website representing someone named Ben every time the domain is reloaded. (Technically a centrally controlled webring of sorts)
- https://webring.xxiivv.com/ - an attempt to inspire artists & developers to build their own website and share traffic among each other. The ring welcomes personalized websites such as diaries, wikis & portfilios. Code available on Github.
- CLMOOC web ring uses the Draupnir Webring plugin for WordPress
- Bolier Plate Web Ring Eleventy and Netlify template
- Weird Wide Webring - Your site must be unique and weird in some way. It can be the way it looks. It can be the way you write or what you write about. It can be the way it smells. It can be the way your footer is covered in feet, your sidebar has a sidebartender, or blog is spelled "blag". But there must be something. (Join)
See Also
- related reading
- 2018-05-31 : By Our Powers Combined … How the webring became the grassroots tool of choice for sharing content online in the ’90s. The concept was social media before media was social. (archived)
- indiewebring
- Coroner’s Report: Webrings are Dead, Part II
- Not quite a webring, but one can register for it and it serves a similar discovery function https://nownownow.com/. See also now
- http://markvigeant.directory/