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

  • Pope Bob
    42•5 months ago

    @mrpalmer16 one of my favorite things back in the day was the old-school “StumbleUpon” which was like webrings on crack.

    Unfortunately, advertising and profit-seeking happened.

    • @speeding_slug@feddit.nl
      14•5 months ago

      Ah man, those times were great. Bored? Just push the button and you’ll see something new. No scrolling, just a new website with random interesting stuff to explore.

      • Norah - She/TheyEnglish
        2•5 months ago

        Oh god, I had it set as my home page for the longest time. I never got anything done but it was great having something new every time we opened our browser.

      • @mrpalmer16@lemmy.mlOP
        1•5 months ago

        That sounds amazing, I somehow missed it. Some of the other sites posted abovr seem to be trying to bring back the magic.

    • @marx2k@lemmy.world
      3•5 months ago

      Stumbleupon was great. I remember having a browser plug in for it. Then I stopped using it for a little while and never went back to it.

      Does it still exist?